Triple

T399005
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Federal Steel Company E9236 entity
Predicate hasBoardMember P8802 FINISHED
Object Norman B. Ream
Norman B. Ream was an American businessman and financier active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his roles on the boards of major industrial and financial corporations.
E242762 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: Norman B. Ream | Statement: [Federal Steel Company, hasBoardMember, Norman B. Ream]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Norman B. Ream
Context triple: [Federal Steel Company, hasBoardMember, Norman B. Ream]
  • A. George A. Bermann
    George A. Bermann is a prominent American legal scholar and expert in international and comparative law, particularly known for his work in international arbitration.
  • B. Norman Pitkin
    Norman Pitkin is the bumbling, well-meaning comic character famously portrayed by British comedian Norman Wisdom in a series of mid-20th-century films.
  • C. Charles F. Roos
    Charles F. Roos was an American economist and mathematician known for his pioneering work in econometrics and contributions to the formalization of economic theory.
  • D. Ralph B. Lloyd
    Ralph B. Lloyd was an American oilman and real estate developer whose investments and land holdings played a major role in shaping urban districts in the western United States.
  • E. Herbert L. Anderson
    Herbert L. Anderson was an American experimental physicist who played a crucial role in the development of the first nuclear chain reaction and early atomic research during the Manhattan Project.
  • 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: Norman B. Ream
Triple: [Federal Steel Company, hasBoardMember, Norman B. Ream]
Generated description
Norman B. Ream was an American businessman and financier active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his roles on the boards of major industrial and financial corporations.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Norman B. Ream
Target entity description: Norman B. Ream was an American businessman and financier active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his roles on the boards of major industrial and financial corporations.
  • A. George A. Bermann
    George A. Bermann is a prominent American legal scholar and expert in international and comparative law, particularly known for his work in international arbitration.
  • B. Norman Pitkin
    Norman Pitkin is the bumbling, well-meaning comic character famously portrayed by British comedian Norman Wisdom in a series of mid-20th-century films.
  • C. Charles F. Roos
    Charles F. Roos was an American economist and mathematician known for his pioneering work in econometrics and contributions to the formalization of economic theory.
  • D. Ralph B. Lloyd
    Ralph B. Lloyd was an American oilman and real estate developer whose investments and land holdings played a major role in shaping urban districts in the western United States.
  • E. Herbert L. Anderson
    Herbert L. Anderson was an American experimental physicist who played a crucial role in the development of the first nuclear chain reaction and early atomic research during the Manhattan Project.
  • 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_69a2e8004cb88190b92ed1add6abf41a completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ee2c2d1881909aa1ccfaa4172b38 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:31 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae5d7138f08190ae4055b31bd3cad1 completed March 9, 2026, 5:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae5e6f8eb481908d75d2c648a88af4 completed March 9, 2026, 5:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae5edfe80481908c3304c917c9065b completed March 9, 2026, 5:47 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.