Triple

T4596724
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Houston Field House E100221 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Ned H. Houston
Ned H. Houston was a prominent figure associated with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, honored for his contributions by having the Houston Field House ice arena named after him.
 E462229 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: Ned H. Houston | Statement: [Houston Field House, namedAfter, Ned H. Houston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ned H. Houston
Context triple: [Houston Field House, namedAfter, Ned H. Houston]
  • A. Andrew W. Houston
    Andrew W. Houston is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of the cloud storage company Dropbox.
  • B. Robert J. Wynne
    Robert J. Wynne was an American journalist and public official who served in senior federal financial and postal administration roles in the early 20th century.
  • C. Robert L. Rice
    Robert L. Rice was a prominent Utah businessman and philanthropist whose significant contributions to the University of Utah led to the football stadium bearing his name.
  • D. James L. Wilmeth
    James L. Wilmeth was an American government official who served as a senior federal financial administrator in the early 20th century.
  • E. Philip M. Landrum
    Philip M. Landrum was an American congressman from Georgia best known as a co-author of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (the Landrum–Griffin Act), which regulated labor unions and their internal affairs.
  • 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: Ned H. Houston
Triple: [Houston Field House, namedAfter, Ned H. Houston]
Generated description
Ned H. Houston was a prominent figure associated with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, honored for his contributions by having the Houston Field House ice arena named after him.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ned H. Houston
Target entity description: Ned H. Houston was a prominent figure associated with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, honored for his contributions by having the Houston Field House ice arena named after him.
  • A. Andrew W. Houston
    Andrew W. Houston is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of the cloud storage company Dropbox.
  • B. Robert J. Wynne
    Robert J. Wynne was an American journalist and public official who served in senior federal financial and postal administration roles in the early 20th century.
  • C. Robert L. Rice
    Robert L. Rice was a prominent Utah businessman and philanthropist whose significant contributions to the University of Utah led to the football stadium bearing his name.
  • D. James L. Wilmeth
    James L. Wilmeth was an American government official who served as a senior federal financial administrator in the early 20th century.
  • E. Philip M. Landrum
    Philip M. Landrum was an American congressman from Georgia best known as a co-author of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (the Landrum–Griffin Act), which regulated labor unions and their internal affairs.
  • 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_69bd43cbc014819098b45f435908f88a completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd594055dc8190a50f1b4be2be1ba0 completed March 20, 2026, 2:27 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be0345e4688190abfbb55d60339e83 completed March 21, 2026, 2:32 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be05269de48190849a76b5fbd24b4a completed March 21, 2026, 2:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be05d277248190bf675151eca07247 completed March 21, 2026, 2:43 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:11 p.m.