Triple

T552272
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Western Electric E11865 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Enos M. Barton
Enos M. Barton was an American engineer and businessman best known as a co-founder and early leader of Western Electric, a major telecommunications manufacturing company.
E131802 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: Enos M. Barton | Statement: [Western Electric, foundedBy, Enos M. Barton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Enos M. Barton
Context triple: [Western Electric, foundedBy, Enos M. Barton]
  • A. Charles L. McNary
    Charles L. McNary was a prominent Republican U.S. Senator from Oregon who served as Senate Minority Leader in the 1930s and was the Republican vice-presidential nominee in the 1940 election.
  • B. Willis C. Hawley
    Willis C. Hawley was an American politician and U.S. Representative from Oregon best known for co-sponsoring the protectionist Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act of 1930.
  • C. Charles F. Brannan
    Charles F. Brannan was a mid-20th-century U.S. Secretary of Agriculture known for advocating progressive farm policies and New Deal–style agricultural reforms.
  • D. Frederick T. Gates
    Frederick T. Gates was an American Baptist minister and influential philanthropic advisor to John D. Rockefeller who helped shape and direct major charitable initiatives in education, public health, and scientific research.
  • E. Edwin B. Crocker
    Edwin B. Crocker was a 19th-century California judge, lawyer, and art collector whose personal collection and patronage led to the creation of the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento.
  • 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: Enos M. Barton
Triple: [Western Electric, foundedBy, Enos M. Barton]
Generated description
Enos M. Barton was an American engineer and businessman best known as a co-founder and early leader of Western Electric, a major telecommunications manufacturing company.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Enos M. Barton
Target entity description: Enos M. Barton was an American engineer and businessman best known as a co-founder and early leader of Western Electric, a major telecommunications manufacturing company.
  • A. Charles L. McNary
    Charles L. McNary was a prominent Republican U.S. Senator from Oregon who served as Senate Minority Leader in the 1930s and was the Republican vice-presidential nominee in the 1940 election.
  • B. Willis C. Hawley
    Willis C. Hawley was an American politician and U.S. Representative from Oregon best known for co-sponsoring the protectionist Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act of 1930.
  • C. Charles F. Brannan
    Charles F. Brannan was a mid-20th-century U.S. Secretary of Agriculture known for advocating progressive farm policies and New Deal–style agricultural reforms.
  • D. Frederick T. Gates
    Frederick T. Gates was an American Baptist minister and influential philanthropic advisor to John D. Rockefeller who helped shape and direct major charitable initiatives in education, public health, and scientific research.
  • E. Edwin B. Crocker
    Edwin B. Crocker was a 19th-century California judge, lawyer, and art collector whose personal collection and patronage led to the creation of the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento.
  • 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_69a4932941d08190815efd422f0b4ca7 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a499047bd4819089ca8345f1b6e46c completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac5e8f412c8190a50bfd63ce435663 completed March 7, 2026, 5:21 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac5f3b0ee8819094ba1bdbaac8c43d completed March 7, 2026, 5:24 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac5fa6a43881908b0ac30c4e376c5b completed March 7, 2026, 5:25 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:32 p.m.