Triple

T17282801
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject BB&T E419574 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Thomas Jefferson Hadley
Thomas Jefferson Hadley was an American businessman best known as a founder of the financial institution that became BB&T (Branch Banking and Trust Company).
E1260244 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: Thomas Jefferson Hadley | Statement: [BB&T, foundedBy, Thomas Jefferson Hadley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Jefferson Hadley
Context triple: [BB&T, foundedBy, Thomas Jefferson Hadley]
  • A. John Boyd Thacher
    John Boyd Thacher was an American politician, historian, and author who served as mayor of Albany, New York, and was known for his works on Christopher Columbus and the discovery of America.
  • B. James Worthington
    James Worthington is a relatively obscure individual whose name is notably associated with the surname Worthington but who lacks widely recognized public prominence.
  • C. Francis Wayland Thurston
    Francis Wayland Thurston is the scholarly narrator and investigator in H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu,” who pieces together scattered evidence to uncover the existence of the cosmic entity Cthulhu.
  • D. Charles Luther Webster
    Charles Luther Webster was an American publisher best known for founding the firm Charles L. Webster and Company, which published several of Mark Twain’s works.
  • E. Hiram King Williams
    Hiram King Williams, better known as Hank Williams, was a pioneering American country music singer-songwriter whose influential songs and emotive performances helped shape the genre in the 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: Thomas Jefferson Hadley
Triple: [BB&T, foundedBy, Thomas Jefferson Hadley]
Generated description
Thomas Jefferson Hadley was an American businessman best known as a founder of the financial institution that became BB&T (Branch Banking and Trust Company).
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Jefferson Hadley
Target entity description: Thomas Jefferson Hadley was an American businessman best known as a founder of the financial institution that became BB&T (Branch Banking and Trust Company).
  • A. John Boyd Thacher
    John Boyd Thacher was an American politician, historian, and author who served as mayor of Albany, New York, and was known for his works on Christopher Columbus and the discovery of America.
  • B. James Worthington
    James Worthington is a relatively obscure individual whose name is notably associated with the surname Worthington but who lacks widely recognized public prominence.
  • C. Francis Wayland Thurston
    Francis Wayland Thurston is the scholarly narrator and investigator in H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu,” who pieces together scattered evidence to uncover the existence of the cosmic entity Cthulhu.
  • D. Charles Luther Webster
    Charles Luther Webster was an American publisher best known for founding the firm Charles L. Webster and Company, which published several of Mark Twain’s works.
  • E. Hiram King Williams
    Hiram King Williams, better known as Hank Williams, was a pioneering American country music singer-songwriter whose influential songs and emotive performances helped shape the genre in the 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_69d886da626481908a14ce7830329a35 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4332b19f481908acfa88b2f57c5dc completed April 19, 2026, 1:43 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0179535ae08190ac0137d0f8741919 completed May 11, 2026, 6:38 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0179e161808190b4d865e6e281489c completed May 11, 2026, 6:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a017aaf88a48190a85b9a3d7ff30b97 completed May 11, 2026, 6:43 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:40 a.m.