Triple

T3843674
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William B. Waddell E93514 entity
Predicate partnerInBusinessWith P282 FINISHED
Object William Hepburn Russell
William Hepburn Russell was a 19th-century American businessman best known as a co-founder of the Pony Express.
E404424 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: William Hepburn Russell | Statement: [William B. Waddell, partnerInBusinessWith, William Hepburn Russell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Hepburn Russell
Context triple: [William B. Waddell, partnerInBusinessWith, William Hepburn Russell]
  • A. William Russell
    William Russell was a British actor best known for his role as schoolteacher Ian Chesterton, one of the original companions in the long-running television series Doctor Who.
  • B. William Armstrong Russell
    William Armstrong Russell was an Anglican bishop and missionary known for his leadership in the 19th-century church, particularly in overseas dioceses.
  • C. Edward Russell
    Edward Russell was a key English naval officer and statesman who helped orchestrate the Glorious Revolution as one of the influential conspirators known as the Immortal Seven.
  • D. Henry Braham
    Henry Braham is a British cinematographer known for his work on major films such as The Suicide Squad, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, and Nanny McPhee.
  • E. Arthur Bell Nicholls
    Arthur Bell Nicholls was an Irish clergyman best known as the husband and later literary executor of novelist Charlotte Brontë.
  • 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: William Hepburn Russell
Triple: [William B. Waddell, partnerInBusinessWith, William Hepburn Russell]
Generated description
William Hepburn Russell was a 19th-century American businessman best known as a co-founder of the Pony Express.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Hepburn Russell
Target entity description: William Hepburn Russell was a 19th-century American businessman best known as a co-founder of the Pony Express.
  • A. William Russell
    William Russell was a British actor best known for his role as schoolteacher Ian Chesterton, one of the original companions in the long-running television series Doctor Who.
  • B. William Armstrong Russell
    William Armstrong Russell was an Anglican bishop and missionary known for his leadership in the 19th-century church, particularly in overseas dioceses.
  • C. Edward Russell
    Edward Russell was a key English naval officer and statesman who helped orchestrate the Glorious Revolution as one of the influential conspirators known as the Immortal Seven.
  • D. Henry Braham
    Henry Braham is a British cinematographer known for his work on major films such as The Suicide Squad, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, and Nanny McPhee.
  • E. Arthur Bell Nicholls
    Arthur Bell Nicholls was an Irish clergyman best known as the husband and later literary executor of novelist Charlotte Brontë.
  • 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_69aed96ce578819084ab16e3439976c9 completed March 9, 2026, 2:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aeebb4fd308190a636ba9dbbe57ed6 completed March 9, 2026, 3:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b53fe2a3dc8190bf216d6f43439e58 completed March 14, 2026, 11 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b540eb53788190aa281ee38edc1729 completed March 14, 2026, 11:05 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b541a55cb081909ec1f87a7553b6f2 completed March 14, 2026, 11:08 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:18 p.m.