Triple

T1796834
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Scientific American E39622 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Rufus M. Porter
Rufus M. Porter was a 19th-century American inventor, painter, and publisher best known for founding the influential magazine Scientific American.
 E276196 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: Rufus M. Porter | Statement: [Scientific American, foundedBy, Rufus M. Porter]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Rufus M. Porter
Context triple: [Scientific American, foundedBy, Rufus M. Porter]
  • A. William Platt
    William Platt was a British Army general best known for leading successful operations against Italian forces in East Africa during the Second World War.
  • B. John A. Pearson
    John A. Pearson was a prominent early 20th-century Canadian architect known for designing major public and institutional buildings.
  • C. Charles A. Coffin
    Charles A. Coffin was an American businessman who became the first president of General Electric and played a pivotal role in shaping the early electric power industry.
  • D. Horace W. Peaslee
    Horace W. Peaslee was an American architect best known for designing prominent public monuments and civic buildings in the early to mid-20th century.
  • E. Willis C. Hawley
    Willis C. Hawley was an American politician and U.S. Representative from Oregon best known for co-sponsoring the protectionist Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act of 1930.
  • 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: Rufus M. Porter
Triple: [Scientific American, foundedBy, Rufus M. Porter]
Generated description
Rufus M. Porter was a 19th-century American inventor, painter, and publisher best known for founding the influential magazine Scientific American.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Rufus M. Porter
Target entity description: Rufus M. Porter was a 19th-century American inventor, painter, and publisher best known for founding the influential magazine Scientific American.
  • A. William Platt
    William Platt was a British Army general best known for leading successful operations against Italian forces in East Africa during the Second World War.
  • B. John A. Pearson
    John A. Pearson was a prominent early 20th-century Canadian architect known for designing major public and institutional buildings.
  • C. Charles A. Coffin
    Charles A. Coffin was an American businessman who became the first president of General Electric and played a pivotal role in shaping the early electric power industry.
  • D. Horace W. Peaslee
    Horace W. Peaslee was an American architect best known for designing prominent public monuments and civic buildings in the early to mid-20th century.
  • E. Willis C. Hawley
    Willis C. Hawley was an American politician and U.S. Representative from Oregon best known for co-sponsoring the protectionist Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act of 1930.
  • 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_69aa6566cd808190a67f33ad47d8ca8e completed March 6, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af5cb503bc8190823a843bb58d85e1 completed March 9, 2026, 11:50 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af5d4795288190bb09c1a928e70b3e completed March 9, 2026, 11:52 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af5dca88948190b0b195bce7126891 completed March 9, 2026, 11:54 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:32 p.m.