Triple

T2152583
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject American Express E47812 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object William G. Fargo
William G. Fargo was a 19th-century American businessman and express pioneer best known as a co-founder of American Express and Wells Fargo.
E403138 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: William G. Fargo | Statement: [American Express, foundedBy, William G. Fargo]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William G. Fargo
Context triple: [American Express, foundedBy, William G. Fargo]
  • A. John H. Ferguson
    John H. Ferguson was the Louisiana judge whose ruling upholding racial segregation in the Plessy v. Ferguson case led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark “separate but equal” decision.
  • B. William E. Hunt
    William E. Hunt was an American jurist who served as a justice on the Montana Supreme Court.
  • C. Cleveland H. Dodge
    Cleveland H. Dodge was an American philanthropist and businessman known for his significant charitable contributions, including helping to establish major health organizations.
  • D. William E. Blanchard
    William E. Blanchard was an architect best known for designing the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.
  • E. Henry Dodge
    Henry Dodge was an American military officer and politician who became prominent for leading frontier forces in early 19th-century conflicts and later serving as a U.S. senator and territorial governor.
  • 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: William G. Fargo
Triple: [American Express, foundedBy, William G. Fargo]
Generated description
William G. Fargo was a 19th-century American businessman and express pioneer best known as a co-founder of American Express and Wells Fargo.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William G. Fargo
Target entity description: William G. Fargo was a 19th-century American businessman and express pioneer best known as a co-founder of American Express and Wells Fargo.
  • A. John H. Ferguson
    John H. Ferguson was the Louisiana judge whose ruling upholding racial segregation in the Plessy v. Ferguson case led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark “separate but equal” decision.
  • B. William E. Hunt
    William E. Hunt was an American jurist who served as a justice on the Montana Supreme Court.
  • C. Cleveland H. Dodge
    Cleveland H. Dodge was an American philanthropist and businessman known for his significant charitable contributions, including helping to establish major health organizations.
  • D. William E. Blanchard
    William E. Blanchard was an architect best known for designing the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.
  • E. Henry Dodge
    Henry Dodge was an American military officer and politician who became prominent for leading frontier forces in early 19th-century conflicts and later serving as a U.S. senator and territorial governor.
  • 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_69a88a1d1fd8819088b34990d69a712f completed March 4, 2026, 7:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abbe48ad148190a7d6cc88fd38a660 completed March 7, 2026, 5:57 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b53fc112688190be32ad336ebba91e completed March 14, 2026, 11 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b54111e5188190ab8ec23124c22981 completed March 14, 2026, 11:05 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b54193105c81909e2a4e368aae36e8 completed March 14, 2026, 11:08 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:44 p.m.