Triple

T3624791
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William West Durant E76810 entity
Predicate sibling P363 FINISHED
Object Charles W. Durant
Charles W. Durant was a 19th-century American financier and railroad executive, known for his involvement in major railway enterprises and as a member of the prominent Durant family.
 E375264 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: Charles W. Durant | Statement: [William West Durant, sibling, Charles W. Durant]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Charles W. Durant
Context triple: [William West Durant, sibling, Charles W. 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. 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.
  • C. Henry Villard
    Henry Villard was a 19th-century German-American journalist, railroad magnate, and financier known for his leadership in the development of major U.S. railroads and his role as president of the Northern Pacific Railway.
  • D. Cyrus H. K. Curtis
    Cyrus H. K. Curtis was an influential American publisher and philanthropist best known for building a magazine empire that included titles like The Saturday Evening Post and Ladies' Home Journal.
  • E. J. C. Nichols
    J. C. Nichols was a prominent American real estate developer best known for pioneering large-scale, master-planned residential communities and the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri.
  • 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: Charles W. Durant
Triple: [William West Durant, sibling, Charles W. Durant]
Generated description
Charles W. Durant was a 19th-century American financier and railroad executive, known for his involvement in major railway enterprises and as a member of the prominent Durant family.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Charles W. Durant
Target entity description: Charles W. Durant was a 19th-century American financier and railroad executive, known for his involvement in major railway enterprises and as a member of the prominent Durant family.
  • 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. 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.
  • C. Henry Villard
    Henry Villard was a 19th-century German-American journalist, railroad magnate, and financier known for his leadership in the development of major U.S. railroads and his role as president of the Northern Pacific Railway.
  • D. Cyrus H. K. Curtis
    Cyrus H. K. Curtis was an influential American publisher and philanthropist best known for building a magazine empire that included titles like The Saturday Evening Post and Ladies' Home Journal.
  • E. J. C. Nichols
    J. C. Nichols was a prominent American real estate developer best known for pioneering large-scale, master-planned residential communities and the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri.
  • 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_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_69b44f0e8d1c8190ae1728d07d5a9e87 completed March 13, 2026, 5:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b452bcaec08190bd01e54d4b5acf3b completed March 13, 2026, 6:09 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b45b4c86e08190bc571a13696c9078 completed March 13, 2026, 6:45 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:23 p.m.