Triple

T3967836
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mount Robson E92257 entity
Predicate firstAscentBy P1321 FINISHED
Object William Wasbrough Foster
William Wasbrough Foster was a Canadian mountaineer, military officer, and civic leader known for his prominent role in early 20th-century Canadian alpinism and public service.
E415638 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 Wasbrough Foster | Statement: [Mount Robson, firstAscentBy, William Wasbrough Foster]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Wasbrough Foster
Context triple: [Mount Robson, firstAscentBy, William Wasbrough Foster]
  • A. John Watson Foster
    John Watson Foster was a 19th-century American diplomat and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Benjamin Harrison.
  • B. James Foster
    James Foster is an economist known for his influential work on poverty measurement and social welfare, including co-developing the widely used Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) poverty indices.
  • C. Francis Newton Gifford
    Francis Newton Gifford was a prominent American football player and Hall of Famer who became widely known as a longtime sportscaster on ABC’s Monday Night Football.
  • D. George Charles Foster
    George Charles Foster, better known as Rube Foster, was a pioneering African American baseball pitcher, manager, and executive often called the "Father of Black Baseball" for founding and leading the Negro National League.
  • E. William C. Foster
    William C. Foster was an American government official and diplomat best known for his leadership roles in U.S. foreign aid and arms control policy during the mid-20th century.
  • 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 Wasbrough Foster
Triple: [Mount Robson, firstAscentBy, William Wasbrough Foster]
Generated description
William Wasbrough Foster was a Canadian mountaineer, military officer, and civic leader known for his prominent role in early 20th-century Canadian alpinism and public service.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Wasbrough Foster
Target entity description: William Wasbrough Foster was a Canadian mountaineer, military officer, and civic leader known for his prominent role in early 20th-century Canadian alpinism and public service.
  • A. John Watson Foster
    John Watson Foster was a 19th-century American diplomat and politician who served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Benjamin Harrison.
  • B. James Foster
    James Foster is an economist known for his influential work on poverty measurement and social welfare, including co-developing the widely used Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) poverty indices.
  • C. Francis Newton Gifford
    Francis Newton Gifford was a prominent American football player and Hall of Famer who became widely known as a longtime sportscaster on ABC’s Monday Night Football.
  • D. George Charles Foster
    George Charles Foster, better known as Rube Foster, was a pioneering African American baseball pitcher, manager, and executive often called the "Father of Black Baseball" for founding and leading the Negro National League.
  • E. William C. Foster
    William C. Foster was an American government official and diplomat best known for his leadership roles in U.S. foreign aid and arms control policy during the mid-20th century.
  • 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_69aed96624188190ac8c45bb57ab72b5 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aef978a14c8190a7982a2e4489b6ea completed March 9, 2026, 4:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b57688f8cc819088a61aba386deb1e completed March 14, 2026, 2:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b577785cdc8190ad0864d63aadf908 completed March 14, 2026, 2:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b578168ecc8190bc47f0902b130c7d completed March 14, 2026, 3 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:32 p.m.