Triple

T318602
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Panama Canal E7762 entity
Predicate notableEngineer P22 FINISHED
Object George Washington Goethals
George Washington Goethals was a U.S. Army engineer and administrator best known for overseeing the construction and early operation of the Panama Canal.
E45982 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: George Washington Goethals | Statement: [Panama Canal, notableEngineer, George Washington Goethals]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Washington Goethals
Context triple: [Panama Canal, notableEngineer, George Washington Goethals]
  • A. John Frank Stevens
    John Frank Stevens was an American civil engineer best known for his pivotal role in organizing and directing early construction and infrastructure work on the Panama Canal.
  • B. Edward Durell Stone
    Edward Durell Stone was a prominent 20th-century American architect known for his modernist yet ornamental designs on major public and cultural buildings.
  • C. James Gamble Rogers
    James Gamble Rogers was an American architect best known for designing many of Yale University's Collegiate Gothic buildings in the early 20th century.
  • D. Washington Roebling
    Washington Roebling was an American civil engineer best known for overseeing the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, pioneering the use of steel-wire suspension and modern engineering techniques.
  • E. Daniel Burnham
    Daniel Burnham was a prominent American architect and urban planner of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for leading the design of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition and shaping the City Beautiful movement.
  • 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: George Washington Goethals
Triple: [Panama Canal, notableEngineer, George Washington Goethals]
Generated description
George Washington Goethals was a U.S. Army engineer and administrator best known for overseeing the construction and early operation of the Panama Canal.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Washington Goethals
Target entity description: George Washington Goethals was a U.S. Army engineer and administrator best known for overseeing the construction and early operation of the Panama Canal.
  • A. John Frank Stevens
    John Frank Stevens was an American civil engineer best known for his pivotal role in organizing and directing early construction and infrastructure work on the Panama Canal.
  • B. Edward Durell Stone
    Edward Durell Stone was a prominent 20th-century American architect known for his modernist yet ornamental designs on major public and cultural buildings.
  • C. James Gamble Rogers
    James Gamble Rogers was an American architect best known for designing many of Yale University's Collegiate Gothic buildings in the early 20th century.
  • D. Washington Roebling
    Washington Roebling was an American civil engineer best known for overseeing the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, pioneering the use of steel-wire suspension and modern engineering techniques.
  • E. Daniel Burnham
    Daniel Burnham was a prominent American architect and urban planner of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for leading the design of the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition and shaping the City Beautiful movement.
  • 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_69a2e7e7af7881908890039d6be4e9b8 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ee016c408190beab4009653524db completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3e85e0fd88190af472eb2563da5a6 completed March 1, 2026, 7:18 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3e8f7256c819088422d10ef54b20d completed March 1, 2026, 7:21 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3e949ff848190ae55965c08e9c1c5 completed March 1, 2026, 7:22 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.