Triple

T4118373
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Belk E90348 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object William Henry Belk
William Henry Belk was an American businessman and philanthropist best known for founding the Belk department store chain in the late 19th century.
E418111 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 Henry Belk | Statement: [Belk, foundedBy, William Henry Belk]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Henry Belk
Context triple: [Belk, foundedBy, William Henry Belk]
  • A. Robert Folsom
    Robert Folsom was an American businessman and civic leader who served as mayor of Dallas, Texas, during the late 1970s and early 1980s, overseeing significant urban development and growth.
  • B. Fred C. Dobbs
    Fred C. Dobbs is the desperate, increasingly paranoid prospector at the center of the 1948 film "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."
  • C. Fuller E. Callaway
    Fuller E. Callaway was an influential early 20th-century American textile magnate and philanthropist from Georgia, known for building a major industrial empire and supporting civic and educational causes.
  • D. Boyd Tinsley
    Boyd Tinsley is an American violinist and composer best known as a longtime member of the Dave Matthews Band.
  • E. Henry B. Steagall
    Henry B. Steagall was an American Democratic congressman from Alabama best known for his key role in New Deal–era financial legislation, including coauthoring the landmark Glass–Steagall Act.
  • 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 Henry Belk
Triple: [Belk, foundedBy, William Henry Belk]
Generated description
William Henry Belk was an American businessman and philanthropist best known for founding the Belk department store chain in the late 19th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Henry Belk
Target entity description: William Henry Belk was an American businessman and philanthropist best known for founding the Belk department store chain in the late 19th century.
  • A. Robert Folsom
    Robert Folsom was an American businessman and civic leader who served as mayor of Dallas, Texas, during the late 1970s and early 1980s, overseeing significant urban development and growth.
  • B. Fred C. Dobbs
    Fred C. Dobbs is the desperate, increasingly paranoid prospector at the center of the 1948 film "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre."
  • C. Fuller E. Callaway
    Fuller E. Callaway was an influential early 20th-century American textile magnate and philanthropist from Georgia, known for building a major industrial empire and supporting civic and educational causes.
  • D. Boyd Tinsley
    Boyd Tinsley is an American violinist and composer best known as a longtime member of the Dave Matthews Band.
  • E. Henry B. Steagall
    Henry B. Steagall was an American Democratic congressman from Alabama best known for his key role in New Deal–era financial legislation, including coauthoring the landmark Glass–Steagall Act.
  • 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_69aed95c080881908125e30c5dcdc6f8 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69af01f48c1c8190aacde6cdf70d7775 completed March 9, 2026, 5:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b57f22e2bc8190a99df0863cf6b2bf completed March 14, 2026, 3:30 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b57fcd3d60819086ab5ad7b69242a2 completed March 14, 2026, 3:33 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5803ec2088190ac9d4b3d34278e17 completed March 14, 2026, 3:35 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:41 p.m.