Triple

T4490594
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Plumas County E107361 entity
Predicate namedBy P63 FINISHED
Object Theodore Judah
Theodore Judah was a 19th-century American civil engineer best known as the chief visionary and promoter behind the route and construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad.
E446765 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: Theodore Judah | Statement: [Plumas County, namedBy, Theodore Judah]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Theodore Judah
Context triple: [Plumas County, namedBy, Theodore Judah]
  • A. Andrew Smith Hallidie
    Andrew Smith Hallidie was a 19th-century engineer and inventor credited with pioneering San Francisco’s cable car system and advancing wire rope technology.
  • B. Joseph Wharton
    Joseph Wharton was a 19th-century American industrialist and philanthropist whose fortune in mining and manufacturing helped shape modern business education.
  • C. William Le Baron Jenney
    William Le Baron Jenney was an American architect and engineer widely regarded as the "father of the skyscraper" for pioneering steel-frame construction in high-rise buildings.
  • D. William Smith Jewett
    William Smith Jewett was a 19th-century American painter known for his portraits and genre scenes.
  • E. John Sutter
    John Sutter was a Swiss-born pioneer and landowner in Mexican and early American California, best known for establishing the agricultural empire around which Sacramento developed and for his connection to the California Gold Rush.
  • 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: Theodore Judah
Triple: [Plumas County, namedBy, Theodore Judah]
Generated description
Theodore Judah was a 19th-century American civil engineer best known as the chief visionary and promoter behind the route and construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Theodore Judah
Target entity description: Theodore Judah was a 19th-century American civil engineer best known as the chief visionary and promoter behind the route and construction of the First Transcontinental Railroad.
  • A. Andrew Smith Hallidie
    Andrew Smith Hallidie was a 19th-century engineer and inventor credited with pioneering San Francisco’s cable car system and advancing wire rope technology.
  • B. Joseph Wharton
    Joseph Wharton was a 19th-century American industrialist and philanthropist whose fortune in mining and manufacturing helped shape modern business education.
  • C. William Le Baron Jenney
    William Le Baron Jenney was an American architect and engineer widely regarded as the "father of the skyscraper" for pioneering steel-frame construction in high-rise buildings.
  • D. William Smith Jewett
    William Smith Jewett was a 19th-century American painter known for his portraits and genre scenes.
  • E. John Sutter
    John Sutter was a Swiss-born pioneer and landowner in Mexican and early American California, best known for establishing the agricultural empire around which Sacramento developed and for his connection to the California Gold Rush.
  • 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_69bd43f84f788190a1383579c4a595be completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd556e69f88190b9c16afc2afcdbef completed March 20, 2026, 2:10 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bd67aee5908190888efb94eee725e5 completed March 20, 2026, 3:28 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bd6c62f40881909e30291317ab5f99 completed March 20, 2026, 3:48 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bd6cf9a04881909a25ce291df748a0 completed March 20, 2026, 3:51 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 12:59 p.m.