Triple

T17295604
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Herman Kountze E419901 entity
Predicate coFounded P104 FINISHED
Object Kountze Brothers bank
Kountze Brothers bank was a prominent 19th-century American banking firm known for financing railroad expansion and economic development in the western United States.
E1261617 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: Kountze Brothers bank | Statement: [Herman Kountze, coFounded, Kountze Brothers bank]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kountze Brothers bank
Context triple: [Herman Kountze, coFounded, Kountze Brothers bank]
  • A. Jay Cooke & Company
    Jay Cooke & Company was a prominent 19th-century American banking house best known for financing the Union war effort during the Civil War through the mass sale of government bonds.
  • B. Farmers' Loan & Trust Company
    Farmers' Loan & Trust Company was a prominent New York financial institution best known for its role as the corporate defendant in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court income tax case Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co.
  • C. Third National Bank
    Third National Bank was a predecessor financial institution that eventually became part of what is now known as Fifth Third Bank.
  • D. Crocker National Bank
    Crocker National Bank was a major California-based commercial bank historically controlled by the influential Crocker family before being acquired by larger banking institutions.
  • E. Cornèr Bank
    Cornèr Bank is a Swiss private bank based in Lugano, known for its banking, wealth management, and payment card services.
  • 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: Kountze Brothers bank
Triple: [Herman Kountze, coFounded, Kountze Brothers bank]
Generated description
Kountze Brothers bank was a prominent 19th-century American banking firm known for financing railroad expansion and economic development in the western United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kountze Brothers bank
Target entity description: Kountze Brothers bank was a prominent 19th-century American banking firm known for financing railroad expansion and economic development in the western United States.
  • A. Jay Cooke & Company
    Jay Cooke & Company was a prominent 19th-century American banking house best known for financing the Union war effort during the Civil War through the mass sale of government bonds.
  • B. Farmers' Loan & Trust Company
    Farmers' Loan & Trust Company was a prominent New York financial institution best known for its role as the corporate defendant in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court income tax case Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co.
  • C. Third National Bank
    Third National Bank was a predecessor financial institution that eventually became part of what is now known as Fifth Third Bank.
  • D. Crocker National Bank
    Crocker National Bank was a major California-based commercial bank historically controlled by the influential Crocker family before being acquired by larger banking institutions.
  • E. Cornèr Bank
    Cornèr Bank is a Swiss private bank based in Lugano, known for its banking, wealth management, and payment card services.
  • 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_69d886db32608190a61e18862c5a8af6 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e437875b208190bcf0df2ded546257 completed April 19, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0180d66bb8819086eb2c72b4dcbafb completed May 11, 2026, 7:10 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a01848c84cc8190bbcf1a8be82d0f68 completed May 11, 2026, 7:26 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a01850519108190972c1ecea6b9313c completed May 11, 2026, 7:28 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:40 a.m.