Triple

T1796687
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Gardner E39619 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Alexander Gardner
Alexander Gardner was a 19th-century Scottish-American photographer best known for his iconic Civil War images and portraits of figures such as Abraham Lincoln.
E201292 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: Alexander Gardner | Statement: [Gardner, hasNotableBearer, Alexander Gardner]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexander Gardner
Context triple: [Gardner, hasNotableBearer, Alexander Gardner]
  • A. Roger Fenton
    Roger Fenton was a pioneering 19th-century British photographer best known for producing some of the earliest and most influential war photographs.
  • B. Samuel Charles Bugbee
    Samuel Charles Bugbee was a 19th-century architect known for designing notable buildings in California, including early structures in San Francisco and the University of California, Berkeley campus.
  • C. George Caleb Bingham
    George Caleb Bingham was a 19th-century American painter best known for his iconic depictions of frontier life and river scenes along the Missouri River.
  • D. Albert Bierstadt
    Albert Bierstadt was a 19th-century American painter renowned for his grand, dramatic landscapes of the American West, associated with the Hudson River School and Luminism.
  • E. Frederick Catherwood
    Frederick Catherwood was a 19th-century English artist, architect, and explorer renowned for his detailed drawings and documentation of ancient Maya ruins in Central America.
  • 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: Alexander Gardner
Triple: [Gardner, hasNotableBearer, Alexander Gardner]
Generated description
Alexander Gardner was a 19th-century Scottish-American photographer best known for his iconic Civil War images and portraits of figures such as Abraham Lincoln.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexander Gardner
Target entity description: Alexander Gardner was a 19th-century Scottish-American photographer best known for his iconic Civil War images and portraits of figures such as Abraham Lincoln.
  • A. Roger Fenton
    Roger Fenton was a pioneering 19th-century British photographer best known for producing some of the earliest and most influential war photographs.
  • B. Samuel Charles Bugbee
    Samuel Charles Bugbee was a 19th-century architect known for designing notable buildings in California, including early structures in San Francisco and the University of California, Berkeley campus.
  • C. George Caleb Bingham
    George Caleb Bingham was a 19th-century American painter best known for his iconic depictions of frontier life and river scenes along the Missouri River.
  • D. Albert Bierstadt
    Albert Bierstadt was a 19th-century American painter renowned for his grand, dramatic landscapes of the American West, associated with the Hudson River School and Luminism.
  • E. Frederick Catherwood
    Frederick Catherwood was a 19th-century English artist, architect, and explorer renowned for his detailed drawings and documentation of ancient Maya ruins in Central America.
  • 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_69a88632aa588190ba3978fde0db5bbd completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa653ef7f481908226ff71afca672a completed March 6, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adb5d6cee88190b26814134037aba6 completed March 8, 2026, 5:45 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adb8b626688190b4953d4549339dea completed March 8, 2026, 5:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adb9253fa08190bfb7d245208150c0 completed March 8, 2026, 6 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:32 p.m.