Triple

T1838325
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject National Geographic Society E41116 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Henry Gannett
Henry Gannett was an American geographer and cartographer known as the “Father of American Mapmaking” and a founding figure in modern American geography.
 E279026 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: Henry Gannett | Statement: [National Geographic Society, foundedBy, Henry Gannett]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Henry Gannett
Context triple: [National Geographic Society, foundedBy, Henry Gannett]
  • 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. 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.
  • C. Rufus M. Porter
    Rufus M. Porter was a 19th-century American inventor, painter, and publisher best known for founding the influential magazine Scientific American.
  • D. Peter Hardeman Burnett
    Peter Hardeman Burnett was an American politician and lawyer who became the first elected civilian governor of California after it gained statehood in 1850.
  • E. Thomas Wilberforce Stoughton
    Thomas Wilberforce Stoughton was a British publisher best known as a co-founder of the prominent publishing house Hodder & Stoughton.
  • 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: Henry Gannett
Triple: [National Geographic Society, foundedBy, Henry Gannett]
Generated description
Henry Gannett was an American geographer and cartographer known as the “Father of American Mapmaking” and a founding figure in modern American geography.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Henry Gannett
Target entity description: Henry Gannett was an American geographer and cartographer known as the “Father of American Mapmaking” and a founding figure in modern American geography.
  • 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. 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.
  • C. Rufus M. Porter
    Rufus M. Porter was a 19th-century American inventor, painter, and publisher best known for founding the influential magazine Scientific American.
  • D. Peter Hardeman Burnett
    Peter Hardeman Burnett was an American politician and lawyer who became the first elected civilian governor of California after it gained statehood in 1850.
  • E. Thomas Wilberforce Stoughton
    Thomas Wilberforce Stoughton was a British publisher best known as a co-founder of the prominent publishing house Hodder & Stoughton.
  • 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_69a88647f9388190909bc36e795bdaec completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb039cb588190b2626245a7f0bd67 completed March 7, 2026, 4:57 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af652eb8ac81908ba29989c1197daf completed March 10, 2026, 12:26 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af665e21e881908e0b45301a93c906 completed March 10, 2026, 12:31 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af66b41cf08190b227b54031371b7e completed March 10, 2026, 12:32 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:33 p.m.