Triple

T1867561
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Jacob Astor IV E34956 entity
Predicate father P120 FINISHED
Object William Backhouse Astor Jr. E116256 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: William Backhouse Astor Jr. | Statement: [John Jacob Astor IV, father, William Backhouse Astor Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Backhouse Astor Jr.
Context triple: [John Jacob Astor IV, father, William Backhouse Astor Jr.]
  • A. William Backhouse Astor Jr. chosen
    William Backhouse Astor Jr. was a prominent 19th-century American businessman and member of the wealthy Astor dynasty, known for his role in managing the family’s real estate fortune and for his social prominence during the Gilded Age.
  • B. William Backhouse Astor Sr.
    William Backhouse Astor Sr. was a prominent 19th-century American businessman and real estate magnate who greatly expanded the Astor family fortune and influence.
  • C. John Jacob Astor IV
    John Jacob Astor IV was a prominent American businessman, real estate magnate, and member of the wealthy Astor family who famously died in the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912.
  • D. Vincent Astor
    Vincent Astor was an American businessman, philanthropist, and heir to the Astor family fortune who became one of the wealthiest men of his era and a prominent New York society figure.
  • E. William Henry Vanderbilt
    William Henry Vanderbilt was a 19th-century American businessman and railroad magnate who became one of the wealthiest men in the United States as the principal heir and successor to Cornelius Vanderbilt.
  • 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_69a88600b2f88190bc09303e68ab517e completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb0b6ac108190921c197abc5ab5b5 completed March 7, 2026, 4:59 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adf3c82d50819094e8ccdba0faf819 completed March 8, 2026, 10:10 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:34 p.m.