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]
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.