Triple

T22686395
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Collins Whitney E560928 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Whitney 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: Whitney | Statement: [William Collins Whitney, familyName, Whitney]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Whitney
Context triple: [William Collins Whitney, familyName, Whitney]
  • A. Whitney
    "Whitney" is a documentary film about the life, career, and struggles of legendary singer Whitney Houston.
  • B. Whitney
    Whitney is a small community in Ontario, Canada, known as a gateway settlement near Algonquin Provincial Park.
  • C. Whitney
    Whitney is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in the Las Vegas Valley of Clark County, Nevada.
  • D. Whitney
    Whitney is the multi-platinum 1987 studio album by Whitney Houston that solidified her status as a global pop and R&B superstar.
  • E. Whitney
    Whitney is the middle name of George Whitney Calhoun, a co-founder of the Green Bay Packers.
  • 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: Whitney
Target entity description: Whitney is a surname most prominently associated with the influential American Whitney family, including politician and financier William Collins Whitney.
  • A. Whitney chosen
    Whitney is a common English surname most famously associated with Eli Whitney, the American inventor of the cotton gin.
  • B. Whitney
    Whitney is a given name used for both males and females, borne by various notable figures in fields such as politics, entertainment, and academia.
  • C. Whitney
    Whitney is the middle name of George Whitney Calhoun, a co-founder of the Green Bay Packers.
  • D. Whitney
    "Whitney" is an American sitcom starring comedian Whitney Cummings that aired on NBC in the early 2010s.
  • E. Whitney
    Whitney is a future Atlantic tropical cyclone name designated to replace the retired name Wilma on the World Meteorological Organization’s rotating storm name list.
  • F. None of above.

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_69e2454d71b48190a1f80af9f82b6fcf completed April 17, 2026, 2:35 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f178649aac8190a9d41f5d82895bdf completed April 29, 2026, 3:17 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:12 p.m.