Triple

T16938728
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject D. W. Brosnan E410893 entity
Predicate positionHeld P8 FINISHED
Object president of Southern Railway
D. W. Brosnan was an American railroad executive best known for leading the Southern Railway during a period of significant modernization and expansion.
E1241891 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: president of Southern Railway | Statement: [D. W. Brosnan, positionHeld, president of Southern Railway]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: president of Southern Railway
Context triple: [D. W. Brosnan, positionHeld, president of Southern Railway]
  • A. Richmond Shreve
    Richmond Shreve was an American architect best known as a principal of the firm Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, which designed New York City's Empire State Building.
  • B. Henry B. Plant
    Henry B. Plant was a prominent 19th-century American railroad and hotel magnate who developed much of Florida’s transportation infrastructure.
  • C. Edmund B. Sebree
    Edmund B. Sebree was a United States Army major general who distinguished himself as a combat commander in the European Theater during World War II.
  • D. Norris B. Herndon
    Norris B. Herndon was an influential African American businessman and philanthropist who expanded and led the Atlanta Life Insurance Company, significantly advancing Black economic empowerment in the early to mid-20th century.
  • E. James Pinckney Henderson
    James Pinckney Henderson was an American lawyer, diplomat, and statesman who played a key role in the annexation of Texas and became a prominent political leader in the mid-19th 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: president of Southern Railway
Triple: [D. W. Brosnan, positionHeld, president of Southern Railway]
Generated description
D. W. Brosnan was an American railroad executive best known for leading the Southern Railway during a period of significant modernization and expansion.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: president of Southern Railway
Target entity description: D. W. Brosnan was an American railroad executive best known for leading the Southern Railway during a period of significant modernization and expansion.
  • A. Richmond Shreve
    Richmond Shreve was an American architect best known as a principal of the firm Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, which designed New York City's Empire State Building.
  • B. Henry B. Plant
    Henry B. Plant was a prominent 19th-century American railroad and hotel magnate who developed much of Florida’s transportation infrastructure.
  • C. Edmund B. Sebree
    Edmund B. Sebree was a United States Army major general who distinguished himself as a combat commander in the European Theater during World War II.
  • D. Norris B. Herndon
    Norris B. Herndon was an influential African American businessman and philanthropist who expanded and led the Atlanta Life Insurance Company, significantly advancing Black economic empowerment in the early to mid-20th century.
  • E. James Pinckney Henderson
    James Pinckney Henderson was an American lawyer, diplomat, and statesman who played a key role in the annexation of Texas and became a prominent political leader in the mid-19th 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_69d886c886688190967be07322597ac9 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3cf2b88bc8190aeb7b07032478ae3 completed April 18, 2026, 6:36 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00cfe7e75881908f95b1d859dd67e4 completed May 10, 2026, 6:35 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00d0b13f1c819091f3f8b966e36214 completed May 10, 2026, 6:38 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00d1ad6b7081908be76d70ad9e2075 completed May 10, 2026, 6:42 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:31 a.m.