Triple
T1751494
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Pinkerton National Detective Agency |
E38452
|
entity |
| Predicate | founder |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Allan Pinkerton |
E38452
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Allan Pinkerton | Statement: [Pinkerton National Detective Agency, founder, Allan Pinkerton]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Allan Pinkerton Context triple: [Pinkerton National Detective Agency, founder, Allan Pinkerton]
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A.
Allan Pinkerton
chosen
Allan Pinkerton was a 19th-century Scottish-American detective and spy who founded one of the first and most influential private detective agencies in the United States.
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B.
John Henry Patterson
John Henry Patterson was an American industrialist and business pioneer best known for building the National Cash Register Company (NCR) into a major corporation and for innovating modern sales and management techniques.
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C.
Arthur Rothstein
Arthur Rothstein was a prominent American photojournalist best known for his powerful Dust Bowl and Great Depression-era images that documented rural life and hardship.
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D.
Henry Deringer
Henry Deringer was a 19th-century American gunsmith best known for designing the small, easily concealable pocket pistols that became widely popular and lent their name (via a misspelling) to the term "derringer."
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E.
William Jackson
William Jackson was an American soldier and statesman best known for serving as the secretary to the 1787 United States Constitutional Convention.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69a8862bdb2081908aefe831c8aa8017 |
completed | March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69aa6411cc788190a052b029dbffa7ca |
completed | March 6, 2026, 5:20 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69adbf4ba8fc81909b538168a4403330 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 6:26 p.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:31 p.m.