Triple
T22686422
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William Collins Whitney |
E560928
|
entity |
| Predicate | relative |
P37
|
FINISHED |
| Object | John Hay Whitney |
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NE NERFINISHED |
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: John Hay Whitney | Statement: [William Collins Whitney, relative, John Hay Whitney]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Hay Whitney Context triple: [William Collins Whitney, relative, John Hay Whitney]
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A.
John Hay Whitney
chosen
John Hay Whitney was an American businessman, diplomat, publisher, and prominent art collector who served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom and owned the New York Herald Tribune.
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B.
John R. Whitney
John R. Whitney is an American businessman best known as the founder of Interactive Data Corporation, a major provider of financial market data and analytics.
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C.
C. J. (Charles) Whitney
C. J. (Charles) Whitney was a theatre impresario and businessman best known for establishing Toronto’s historic Royal Alexandra Theatre.
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D.
Albert R. Meyer
Albert R. Meyer is an American computer scientist and professor at MIT known for his influential work in theoretical computer science and the foundations of computation.
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E.
William Warder Norton
William Warder Norton was an American publisher and entrepreneur best known for establishing the independent publishing house W. W. Norton & Company.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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.