Triple

T3469992
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Charles William Harkness E73232 entity
Predicate hasRelative P367 FINISHED
Object Stephen Vanderburgh Harkness
Stephen Vanderburgh Harkness was an American businessman and early investor in Standard Oil who became a major industrialist and philanthropist in the late 19th century.
 E362429 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: Stephen Vanderburgh Harkness | Statement: [Charles William Harkness, hasRelative, Stephen Vanderburgh Harkness]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Stephen Vanderburgh Harkness
Context triple: [Charles William Harkness, hasRelative, Stephen Vanderburgh Harkness]
  • A. Charles William Harkness
    Charles William Harkness was an American businessman and Yale benefactor from the prominent Harkness family, known for his substantial philanthropic contributions to the university.
  • B. Harold Hazen
    Harold Hazen was an American electrical engineer and MIT professor known for his pioneering work in control systems and his role in developing early analog computing devices.
  • C. Selden Chapin
    Selden Chapin was an American diplomat and career Foreign Service officer who served in several key ambassadorial posts for the United States during the mid-20th century.
  • D. Theodore B. Fernald
    Theodore B. Fernald is a linguist known for his descriptive and analytical work on the Maricopa language.
  • E. Franklin Haven Sargent
    Franklin Haven Sargent was an American educator and theatrical innovator best known for establishing one of the first professional acting schools in the United States.
  • 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: Stephen Vanderburgh Harkness
Triple: [Charles William Harkness, hasRelative, Stephen Vanderburgh Harkness]
Generated description
Stephen Vanderburgh Harkness was an American businessman and early investor in Standard Oil who became a major industrialist and philanthropist in the late 19th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Stephen Vanderburgh Harkness
Target entity description: Stephen Vanderburgh Harkness was an American businessman and early investor in Standard Oil who became a major industrialist and philanthropist in the late 19th century.
  • A. Charles William Harkness
    Charles William Harkness was an American businessman and Yale benefactor from the prominent Harkness family, known for his substantial philanthropic contributions to the university.
  • B. Harold Hazen
    Harold Hazen was an American electrical engineer and MIT professor known for his pioneering work in control systems and his role in developing early analog computing devices.
  • C. Selden Chapin
    Selden Chapin was an American diplomat and career Foreign Service officer who served in several key ambassadorial posts for the United States during the mid-20th century.
  • D. Theodore B. Fernald
    Theodore B. Fernald is a linguist known for his descriptive and analytical work on the Maricopa language.
  • E. Franklin Haven Sargent
    Franklin Haven Sargent was an American educator and theatrical innovator best known for establishing one of the first professional acting schools in the United States.
  • 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_69ad85b2fed48190948c8765e453d270 completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adbb392f6481908b6ad0457b8cf421 completed March 8, 2026, 6:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b373aeade48190958e7e09b856cede completed March 13, 2026, 2:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b3747e56ac8190b2c8bc8707202e52 completed March 13, 2026, 2:20 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b374d674a8819082fabddd941df7ae completed March 13, 2026, 2:22 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:17 p.m.