Triple

T3624789
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William West Durant E76810 entity
Predicate father P120 FINISHED
Object Thomas C. Durant
Thomas C. Durant was a 19th-century American railroad executive and financier best known for his leading role in building the Union Pacific Railroad and the First Transcontinental Railroad.
E110939 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: Thomas C. Durant | Statement: [William West Durant, father, Thomas C. Durant]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas C. Durant
Context triple: [William West Durant, father, Thomas C. Durant]
  • A. Thomas Durant
    Thomas Durant is a central character in the television series "Hell on Wheels," depicted as a ruthless and ambitious railroad tycoon driving the construction of the transcontinental railroad.
  • B. Collis P. Huntington
    Collis P. Huntington was a prominent 19th-century American railroad magnate and industrialist who played a key role in the development of the U.S. transportation infrastructure and major shipbuilding enterprises.
  • C. Samuel Insull
    Samuel Insull was a British-born American business magnate and utilities executive who built a vast Midwestern electric power empire and helped shape the modern electrical infrastructure and public utility regulation in the United States.
  • D. Junius Spencer Morgan
    Junius Spencer Morgan was a prominent 19th-century American banker and financier, best known as the father and business predecessor of J. P. Morgan.
  • E. Charles T. Yerkes
    Charles T. Yerkes was a wealthy American financier and streetcar magnate of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for funding major astronomical and urban transit projects.
  • 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: Thomas C. Durant
Triple: [William West Durant, father, Thomas C. Durant]
Generated description
Thomas C. Durant was a 19th-century American railroad executive and financier best known for his leading role in building the Union Pacific Railroad and the First Transcontinental Railroad.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas C. Durant
Target entity description: Thomas C. Durant was a 19th-century American railroad executive and financier best known for his leading role in building the Union Pacific Railroad and the First Transcontinental Railroad.
  • A. Thomas Durant chosen
    Thomas Durant is a central character in the television series "Hell on Wheels," depicted as a ruthless and ambitious railroad tycoon driving the construction of the transcontinental railroad.
  • B. Collis P. Huntington
    Collis P. Huntington was a prominent 19th-century American railroad magnate and industrialist who played a key role in the development of the U.S. transportation infrastructure and major shipbuilding enterprises.
  • C. Samuel Insull
    Samuel Insull was a British-born American business magnate and utilities executive who built a vast Midwestern electric power empire and helped shape the modern electrical infrastructure and public utility regulation in the United States.
  • D. Junius Spencer Morgan
    Junius Spencer Morgan was a prominent 19th-century American banker and financier, best known as the father and business predecessor of J. P. Morgan.
  • E. Charles T. Yerkes
    Charles T. Yerkes was a wealthy American financier and streetcar magnate of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for funding major astronomical and urban transit projects.
  • F. None of above.

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_69ad85dc03948190b35b7189e4175bcc completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc2d9845c8190ad65b2471000dfa0 completed March 8, 2026, 6:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4332260cc8190964a15bfee0a3b61 completed March 13, 2026, 3:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b435af0f688190ac82dccd487747af completed March 13, 2026, 4:05 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b43620aee48190953a413ece0d51fa completed March 13, 2026, 4:06 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:23 p.m.