Triple

T3187312
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Samuel Morse E66728 entity
Predicate collaboratedWith P435 FINISHED
Object Alfred Vail
Alfred Vail was an American inventor and machinist who played a crucial role in developing and improving the electric telegraph and Morse code alongside Samuel Morse.
E339284 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: Alfred Vail | Statement: [Samuel Morse, collaboratedWith, Alfred Vail]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alfred Vail
Context triple: [Samuel Morse, collaboratedWith, Alfred Vail]
  • A. Samuel Morse
    Samuel Morse was an American inventor and painter best known for co-developing the Morse code and contributing to the invention of the single-wire telegraph system.
  • B. John W. Draper
    John W. Draper was a 19th-century American scientist, philosopher, and historian known for his pioneering work in photochemistry and early contributions to scientific institutions.
  • C. Henry G. Morse
    Henry G. Morse was an American industrialist and shipbuilder best known as the founder of the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, once one of the largest and most advanced shipyards in the United States.
  • D. Elisha Gray
    Elisha Gray was a 19th-century American electrical engineer and inventor, best known as a pioneer in telegraphy and early telephone technology.
  • E. Charles Francis Jenkins
    Charles Francis Jenkins was an American pioneer of early cinema and television technology, known for his groundbreaking work in motion picture projection and experimental broadcasting.
  • 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: Alfred Vail
Triple: [Samuel Morse, collaboratedWith, Alfred Vail]
Generated description
Alfred Vail was an American inventor and machinist who played a crucial role in developing and improving the electric telegraph and Morse code alongside Samuel Morse.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alfred Vail
Target entity description: Alfred Vail was an American inventor and machinist who played a crucial role in developing and improving the electric telegraph and Morse code alongside Samuel Morse.
  • A. Samuel Morse
    Samuel Morse was an American inventor and painter best known for co-developing the Morse code and contributing to the invention of the single-wire telegraph system.
  • B. John W. Draper
    John W. Draper was a 19th-century American scientist, philosopher, and historian known for his pioneering work in photochemistry and early contributions to scientific institutions.
  • C. Henry G. Morse
    Henry G. Morse was an American industrialist and shipbuilder best known as the founder of the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, once one of the largest and most advanced shipyards in the United States.
  • D. Elisha Gray
    Elisha Gray was a 19th-century American electrical engineer and inventor, best known as a pioneer in telegraphy and early telephone technology.
  • E. Charles Francis Jenkins
    Charles Francis Jenkins was an American pioneer of early cinema and television technology, known for his groundbreaking work in motion picture projection and experimental broadcasting.
  • 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_69ad8587c1bc8190a2595f2c22ee1001 completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ada6e279288190843837751e852c9e completed March 8, 2026, 4:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b276fbb7c481909097f5af619e45f4 completed March 12, 2026, 8:19 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b27844c6708190ac61f00a74a2ef27 completed March 12, 2026, 8:24 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b27911ff1481908a36f279a871c510 completed March 12, 2026, 8:28 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:06 p.m.