Triple

T1952893
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Western Union E42198 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Hiram Sibley
Hiram Sibley was a 19th-century American industrialist and entrepreneur best known for organizing and leading Western Union into the dominant telegraph company in the United States.
 E266724 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: Hiram Sibley | Statement: [Western Union, foundedBy, Hiram Sibley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Hiram Sibley
Context triple: [Western Union, foundedBy, Hiram Sibley]
  • A. William Jackson Palmer
    William Jackson Palmer was a 19th-century American civil engineer, railroad builder, and philanthropist who played a key role in developing the American West.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Edwin B. Crocker
    Edwin B. Crocker was a 19th-century California judge, lawyer, and art collector whose personal collection and patronage led to the creation of the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento.
  • D. William Janney
    William Janney was an American film actor active in the late 1920s and 1930s, known for his roles in early sound-era dramas and adventure films.
  • E. William H. Kirkland
    William H. Kirkland was the husband of actress and vaudeville performer June Havoc.
  • 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: Hiram Sibley
Triple: [Western Union, foundedBy, Hiram Sibley]
Generated description
Hiram Sibley was a 19th-century American industrialist and entrepreneur best known for organizing and leading Western Union into the dominant telegraph company in the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Hiram Sibley
Target entity description: Hiram Sibley was a 19th-century American industrialist and entrepreneur best known for organizing and leading Western Union into the dominant telegraph company in the United States.
  • A. William Jackson Palmer
    William Jackson Palmer was a 19th-century American civil engineer, railroad builder, and philanthropist who played a key role in developing the American West.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Edwin B. Crocker
    Edwin B. Crocker was a 19th-century California judge, lawyer, and art collector whose personal collection and patronage led to the creation of the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento.
  • D. William Janney
    William Janney was an American film actor active in the late 1920s and 1930s, known for his roles in early sound-era dramas and adventure films.
  • E. William H. Kirkland
    William H. Kirkland was the husband of actress and vaudeville performer June Havoc.
  • 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_69a8870eea088190a38781990812a9bc completed March 4, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb3501d108190bc5cb23f53db4411 completed March 7, 2026, 5:10 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aebf046d388190a0224f76a4e13e08 completed March 9, 2026, 12:37 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aedd5707d08190ac5b101844118730 completed March 9, 2026, 2:46 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aee8d85bac819080d9bf12883156e3 completed March 9, 2026, 3:35 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:36 p.m.