Triple
T2404504
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
E50244
|
entity |
| Predicate | founders |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Ichabod Washburn
Ichabod Washburn was a 19th-century American industrialist and philanthropist whose support for practical, technical education was instrumental in the creation of Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
|
E262937
|
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: Ichabod Washburn | Statement: [Worcester Polytechnic Institute, founders, Ichabod Washburn]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ichabod Washburn Context triple: [Worcester Polytechnic Institute, founders, Ichabod Washburn]
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A.
Ichabod Crane
Ichabod Crane is the superstitious, lanky schoolteacher whose eerie encounter with the Headless Horseman drives the plot of Washington Irving’s classic ghost story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
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B.
Elias Loomis
Elias Loomis was a 19th-century American mathematician and physicist known for his work in astronomy, meteorology, and mathematical education.
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C.
Hosea Biglow
Hosea Biglow is a fictional New England farmer and dialect-speaking narrator created by James Russell Lowell to satirize politics and society in "The Biglow Papers."
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D.
William Wilson
William Wilson was a Scottish artist renowned for his stained glass, printmaking, and architectural sculpture in the mid-20th century.
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E.
Ralph McLane
Ralph McLane was a prominent American clarinetist best known for his tenure as principal clarinet of the Philadelphia Orchestra and his influential role as a teacher at leading music institutions.
- 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: Ichabod Washburn Triple: [Worcester Polytechnic Institute, founders, Ichabod Washburn]
Generated description
Ichabod Washburn was a 19th-century American industrialist and philanthropist whose support for practical, technical education was instrumental in the creation of Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ichabod Washburn Target entity description: Ichabod Washburn was a 19th-century American industrialist and philanthropist whose support for practical, technical education was instrumental in the creation of Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
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A.
Ichabod Crane
Ichabod Crane is the superstitious, lanky schoolteacher whose eerie encounter with the Headless Horseman drives the plot of Washington Irving’s classic ghost story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
-
B.
Elias Loomis
Elias Loomis was a 19th-century American mathematician and physicist known for his work in astronomy, meteorology, and mathematical education.
-
C.
Hosea Biglow
Hosea Biglow is a fictional New England farmer and dialect-speaking narrator created by James Russell Lowell to satirize politics and society in "The Biglow Papers."
-
D.
William Wilson
William Wilson was a Scottish artist renowned for his stained glass, printmaking, and architectural sculpture in the mid-20th century.
-
E.
Ralph McLane
Ralph McLane was a prominent American clarinetist best known for his tenure as principal clarinet of the Philadelphia Orchestra and his influential role as a teacher at leading music institutions.
- 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_69a88b0339a88190a1207333cd271cc9 |
completed | March 4, 2026, 7:41 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abc8fa151081909bc6be528b29b315 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 6:43 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69aeb3e740c88190872aa1a7834d73b0 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 11:49 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69aeb4b942b08190addc2885fbda0e41 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 11:53 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69aeb557247c8190920ce3a5db388800 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 11:56 a.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:58 p.m.