Triple

T2390578
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hackley and Hume Historic Site E48931 entity
Predicate builtFor P1261 FINISHED
Object Thomas Hume
Thomas Hume was a prominent 19th-century lumber baron and businessman in Muskegon, Michigan, whose success in the lumber industry led to the construction of the historic Hackley and Hume homes.
E264141 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: Thomas Hume | Statement: [Hackley and Hume Historic Site, builtFor, Thomas Hume]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Hume
Context triple: [Hackley and Hume Historic Site, builtFor, Thomas Hume]
  • A. William Robertson
    William Robertson was an influential 18th-century Scottish historian and Presbyterian minister whose works and leadership at the University of Edinburgh made him a central figure of the Scottish Enlightenment.
  • B. John Carlyle
    John Carlyle was an 18th-century Scottish merchant and prominent early resident of Alexandria, Virginia, whose wealth and status are reflected in the grand Carlyle House built for him.
  • C. Thomas Tickell
    Thomas Tickell was an early 18th-century English poet and translator associated with Joseph Addison and the Whig literary circle.
  • D. Thomas Urquhart
    Thomas Urquhart was a 17th-century Scottish writer, translator, and eccentric known for his elaborate prose and early English translation of Rabelais.
  • E. Henry Brougham
    Henry Brougham was a prominent 19th-century British statesman, lawyer, and reformer who played a key role in the abolition of slavery and the passing of the 1832 Reform Act.
  • 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: Thomas Hume
Triple: [Hackley and Hume Historic Site, builtFor, Thomas Hume]
Generated description
Thomas Hume was a prominent 19th-century lumber baron and businessman in Muskegon, Michigan, whose success in the lumber industry led to the construction of the historic Hackley and Hume homes.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Hume
Target entity description: Thomas Hume was a prominent 19th-century lumber baron and businessman in Muskegon, Michigan, whose success in the lumber industry led to the construction of the historic Hackley and Hume homes.
  • A. William Robertson
    William Robertson was an influential 18th-century Scottish historian and Presbyterian minister whose works and leadership at the University of Edinburgh made him a central figure of the Scottish Enlightenment.
  • B. John Carlyle
    John Carlyle was an 18th-century Scottish merchant and prominent early resident of Alexandria, Virginia, whose wealth and status are reflected in the grand Carlyle House built for him.
  • C. Thomas Tickell
    Thomas Tickell was an early 18th-century English poet and translator associated with Joseph Addison and the Whig literary circle.
  • D. Thomas Urquhart
    Thomas Urquhart was a 17th-century Scottish writer, translator, and eccentric known for his elaborate prose and early English translation of Rabelais.
  • E. Henry Brougham
    Henry Brougham was a prominent 19th-century British statesman, lawyer, and reformer who played a key role in the abolition of slavery and the passing of the 1832 Reform Act.
  • 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_69a88aa5f63081908d07fd302029fcbd completed March 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc87457388190822d5506327db8f2 completed March 7, 2026, 6:40 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aeb3d4f0608190bcc77a67fa85b963 completed March 9, 2026, 11:49 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aeb79b249c8190818bc4daf9eebd2a completed March 9, 2026, 12:05 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aeb843b8e88190b5e4417a64ce8f49 completed March 9, 2026, 12:08 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:57 p.m.