Triple

T16923107
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Henry Wellcome E410492 entity
Predicate businessPartner P282 FINISHED
Object Silas Mainville Burroughs
Silas Mainville Burroughs was an American-born pharmaceutical entrepreneur who co-founded the British drug company Burroughs Wellcome & Co., a precursor to modern pharmaceutical giants like GlaxoSmithKline.
E1241234 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 steps)

Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.

NER Named-entity recognition gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Silas Mainville Burroughs | Statement: [Henry Wellcome, businessPartner, Silas Mainville Burroughs]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Silas Mainville Burroughs
Context triple: [Henry Wellcome, businessPartner, Silas Mainville Burroughs]
  • A. Edgar Rice Burroughs
    Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American author best known for creating the iconic adventure characters Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.
  • B. Max Brand
    Max Brand was the pen name of American author Frederick Schiller Faust, a highly prolific and influential writer best known for his Western novels and stories.
  • C. Edward E. Smith
    Edward E. Smith was an American science fiction author best known for his pioneering space opera novels, particularly the Lensman and Skylark series.
  • D. Walter B. Gibson
    Walter B. Gibson was an American writer and magician best known for creating and extensively writing the pulp adventures of the crime-fighting character The Shadow.
  • E. Edmond Hamilton
    Edmond Hamilton was an influential American science fiction author, particularly known for his space opera tales and prolific pulp magazine contributions in the early to mid-20th century.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Silas Mainville Burroughs
Triple: [Henry Wellcome, businessPartner, Silas Mainville Burroughs]
Generated description
Silas Mainville Burroughs was an American-born pharmaceutical entrepreneur who co-founded the British drug company Burroughs Wellcome & Co., a precursor to modern pharmaceutical giants like GlaxoSmithKline.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Silas Mainville Burroughs
Target entity description: Silas Mainville Burroughs was an American-born pharmaceutical entrepreneur who co-founded the British drug company Burroughs Wellcome & Co., a precursor to modern pharmaceutical giants like GlaxoSmithKline.
  • A. Edgar Rice Burroughs
    Edgar Rice Burroughs was an American author best known for creating the iconic adventure characters Tarzan and John Carter of Mars.
  • B. Max Brand
    Max Brand was the pen name of American author Frederick Schiller Faust, a highly prolific and influential writer best known for his Western novels and stories.
  • C. Edward E. Smith
    Edward E. Smith was an American science fiction author best known for his pioneering space opera novels, particularly the Lensman and Skylark series.
  • D. Walter B. Gibson
    Walter B. Gibson was an American writer and magician best known for creating and extensively writing the pulp adventures of the crime-fighting character The Shadow.
  • E. Edmond Hamilton
    Edmond Hamilton was an influential American science fiction author, particularly known for his space opera tales and prolific pulp magazine contributions in the early to mid-20th century.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 batches)

The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.

Step Stage Batch ID Status When
creating Elicitation batch_69d886c7b1e481908c3766dfa8c13458 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3cdf06e8c81908028efef2faa6c6b completed April 18, 2026, 6:31 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00cfd5e17481909fc4303fcc1342bf completed May 10, 2026, 6:35 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00d0a0852c8190991af93d50fa2216 completed May 10, 2026, 6:38 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00d14b83d88190b3dbc124d5b33029 completed May 10, 2026, 6:41 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:30 a.m.