Triple

T509317
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Port Authority Bus Terminal E10570 entity
Predicate architect P184 FINISHED
Object Lathrop Douglass
Lathrop Douglass was an American architect best known for co-designing New York City's Port Authority Bus Terminal, one of the world's busiest bus stations.
E100072 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: Lathrop Douglass | Statement: [Port Authority Bus Terminal, architect, Lathrop Douglass]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lathrop Douglass
Context triple: [Port Authority Bus Terminal, architect, Lathrop Douglass]
  • A. Nathaniel P. Davis
    Nathaniel P. Davis was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Hungary.
  • B. Cushman K. Davis
    Cushman K. Davis was an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat who served as a U.S. Senator from Minnesota and played a key role in foreign affairs at the turn of the 20th century.
  • C. George P. Davis
    George P. Davis was the taxpayer whose challenge to the Social Security Act’s payroll tax provisions led to the landmark 1937 U.S. Supreme Court case Helvering v. Davis.
  • D. Edmund G. Ross
    Edmund G. Ross was a 19th-century U.S. senator from Kansas best known for casting the decisive vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, an act later celebrated in John F. Kennedy’s "Profiles in Courage."
  • E. John A. Wilson
    John A. Wilson was a prominent Washington, D.C. politician and public servant, notably serving as chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia.
  • 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: Lathrop Douglass
Triple: [Port Authority Bus Terminal, architect, Lathrop Douglass]
Generated description
Lathrop Douglass was an American architect best known for co-designing New York City's Port Authority Bus Terminal, one of the world's busiest bus stations.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lathrop Douglass
Target entity description: Lathrop Douglass was an American architect best known for co-designing New York City's Port Authority Bus Terminal, one of the world's busiest bus stations.
  • A. Nathaniel P. Davis
    Nathaniel P. Davis was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Hungary.
  • B. Cushman K. Davis
    Cushman K. Davis was an American politician, lawyer, and diplomat who served as a U.S. Senator from Minnesota and played a key role in foreign affairs at the turn of the 20th century.
  • C. George P. Davis
    George P. Davis was the taxpayer whose challenge to the Social Security Act’s payroll tax provisions led to the landmark 1937 U.S. Supreme Court case Helvering v. Davis.
  • D. Edmund G. Ross
    Edmund G. Ross was a 19th-century U.S. senator from Kansas best known for casting the decisive vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, an act later celebrated in John F. Kennedy’s "Profiles in Courage."
  • E. John A. Wilson
    John A. Wilson was a prominent Washington, D.C. politician and public servant, notably serving as chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia.
  • 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_69a2e848adf881908e5e04f7af030093 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2f164a9d48190b525a97b5c06ffe2 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7927a25b081909b553fe3a486e84a completed March 4, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a796fc8de08190a8bc1fff36d3ea9d completed March 4, 2026, 2:20 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a79773ce988190bd019e1bd03a3464 completed March 4, 2026, 2:22 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.