Triple
T20088590
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Shay locomotive |
E496204
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasInventor |
P632
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Ephraim Shay |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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: Ephraim Shay | Statement: [Shay locomotive, hasInventor, Ephraim Shay]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ephraim Shay Context triple: [Shay locomotive, hasInventor, Ephraim Shay]
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A.
Ephraim Bales
Ephraim Bales was an early Appalachian settler and farmer in the Great Smoky Mountains region, remembered today through the preserved historic cabin that bears his name.
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B.
Ephraim Hart
Ephraim Hart was an early American merchant and broker who was among the founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
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C.
Ephraim Williams
Ephraim Williams was an 18th-century American soldier and landowner whose bequest led to the establishment of Williams College in Massachusetts.
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D.
Jedediah Purdy
Jedediah Purdy is an American legal scholar and writer known for his work on democracy, environmental politics, and political economy.
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E.
Eliphalet
Eliphalet is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, historically used in English-speaking countries, particularly in religious and colonial American contexts.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ephraim Shay Target entity description: Ephraim Shay was an American inventor and logger best known for creating the geared steam locomotive design that revolutionized logging and industrial railroads in the late 19th century.
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A.
Ephraim Bales
Ephraim Bales was an early Appalachian settler and farmer in the Great Smoky Mountains region, remembered today through the preserved historic cabin that bears his name.
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B.
Ephraim Hart
Ephraim Hart was an early American merchant and broker who was among the founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
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C.
Ephraim Williams
Ephraim Williams was an 18th-century American soldier and landowner whose bequest led to the establishment of Williams College in Massachusetts.
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D.
Jedediah Purdy
Jedediah Purdy is an American legal scholar and writer known for his work on democracy, environmental politics, and political economy.
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E.
Eliphalet
Eliphalet is a masculine given name of Hebrew origin, historically used in English-speaking countries, particularly in religious and colonial American contexts.
- F. None of above. chosen
Provenance (2 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_69da626eee3881909f3454986d4a6511 |
completed | April 11, 2026, 3:02 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e6655d65a88190a510132f36341b6c |
completed | April 20, 2026, 5:41 p.m. |
Created at: April 11, 2026, 11:17 p.m.