Triple

T2894283
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William S. Burroughs E63899 entity
Predicate relative P37 FINISHED
Object William Seward Burroughs I
William Seward Burroughs I was an American inventor and businessman best known for developing and patenting an early adding machine and founding the company that became Burroughs Corporation.
E314065 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: William Seward Burroughs I | Statement: [William S. Burroughs, relative, William Seward Burroughs I]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Seward Burroughs I
Context triple: [William S. Burroughs, relative, William Seward Burroughs I]
  • A. William S. Burroughs
    William S. Burroughs was an influential American novelist and essayist known for his experimental, transgressive works such as "Naked Lunch" and his central role in the development of postwar countercultural literature.
  • B. Henry Miller
    Henry Miller was an American writer known for his semi-autobiographical, sexually candid, and experimental novels such as "Tropic of Cancer," which challenged literary and censorship norms in the 20th century.
  • C. Henry Gordon Bennett
    Henry Gordon Bennett was an Australian Army lieutenant general best known for his controversial leadership during World War II, particularly in the Malayan campaign and the fall of Singapore.
  • D. Windland Smith Rice
    Windland Smith Rice was an American nature and wildlife photographer and conservationist, known for her award-winning images and for being the daughter of FedEx founder Frederick W. Smith.
  • E. Joe Gould
    Joe Gould was the real-life boxing manager best known for guiding heavyweight champion James J. Braddock during his improbable rise in the 1930s.
  • 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: William Seward Burroughs I
Triple: [William S. Burroughs, relative, William Seward Burroughs I]
Generated description
William Seward Burroughs I was an American inventor and businessman best known for developing and patenting an early adding machine and founding the company that became Burroughs Corporation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Seward Burroughs I
Target entity description: William Seward Burroughs I was an American inventor and businessman best known for developing and patenting an early adding machine and founding the company that became Burroughs Corporation.
  • A. William S. Burroughs
    William S. Burroughs was an influential American novelist and essayist known for his experimental, transgressive works such as "Naked Lunch" and his central role in the development of postwar countercultural literature.
  • B. Henry Miller
    Henry Miller was an American writer known for his semi-autobiographical, sexually candid, and experimental novels such as "Tropic of Cancer," which challenged literary and censorship norms in the 20th century.
  • C. Henry Gordon Bennett
    Henry Gordon Bennett was an Australian Army lieutenant general best known for his controversial leadership during World War II, particularly in the Malayan campaign and the fall of Singapore.
  • D. Windland Smith Rice
    Windland Smith Rice was an American nature and wildlife photographer and conservationist, known for her award-winning images and for being the daughter of FedEx founder Frederick W. Smith.
  • E. Joe Gould
    Joe Gould was the real-life boxing manager best known for guiding heavyweight champion James J. Braddock during his improbable rise in the 1930s.
  • 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_69ab4c45822c8190830c5f2bb97bcfd0 completed March 6, 2026, 9:51 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abe063de6c8190bce9ddefd1dd62e1 completed March 7, 2026, 8:23 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b0fc5925a481908e89f51ad4056708 completed March 11, 2026, 5:23 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b0fcd5a03881908ad2fc97624c3bbc completed March 11, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b0fd3333288190a47f26a3941b9fe4 completed March 11, 2026, 5:27 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 10:07 p.m.