Triple
T5966961
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Payne Whitney |
E132776
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entity |
| Predicate | hasRelative |
P367
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FINISHED |
| Object |
William Collins Whitney
William Collins Whitney was a prominent American political leader and financier who served as U.S. Secretary of the Navy under President Grover Cleveland and played a key role in modernizing the Navy in the late 19th century.
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E560928
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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 Collins Whitney | Statement: [Payne Whitney, hasRelative, William Collins Whitney]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Collins Whitney Context triple: [Payne Whitney, hasRelative, William Collins Whitney]
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A.
Robert H. Treman
Robert H. Treman was a prominent Ithaca, New York businessman and conservationist whose philanthropy and land donations helped establish the state park that bears his name.
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B.
Peter Cooper
Peter Cooper was a 19th-century American industrialist, inventor, and philanthropist best known for founding The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City.
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C.
Thomas A. Scott
Thomas A. Scott was a prominent 19th-century American railroad executive and businessman who played a key logistical role for the Union during the Civil War.
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D.
Amasa Delano
Amasa Delano was an American sea captain and explorer best known for his 1817 memoir "A Narrative of Voyages and Travels," which inspired Herman Melville’s novella "Benito Cereno."
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E.
Edward Henry Harriman
Edward Henry Harriman was a prominent American railroad executive and financier of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for reorganizing and expanding major railroads such as the Union Pacific.
- 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 Collins Whitney Triple: [Payne Whitney, hasRelative, William Collins Whitney]
Generated description
William Collins Whitney was a prominent American political leader and financier who served as U.S. Secretary of the Navy under President Grover Cleveland and played a key role in modernizing the Navy in the late 19th century.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Collins Whitney Target entity description: William Collins Whitney was a prominent American political leader and financier who served as U.S. Secretary of the Navy under President Grover Cleveland and played a key role in modernizing the Navy in the late 19th century.
-
A.
Robert H. Treman
Robert H. Treman was a prominent Ithaca, New York businessman and conservationist whose philanthropy and land donations helped establish the state park that bears his name.
-
B.
Peter Cooper
Peter Cooper was a 19th-century American industrialist, inventor, and philanthropist best known for founding The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City.
-
C.
Thomas A. Scott
Thomas A. Scott was a prominent 19th-century American railroad executive and businessman who played a key logistical role for the Union during the Civil War.
-
D.
Amasa Delano
Amasa Delano was an American sea captain and explorer best known for his 1817 memoir "A Narrative of Voyages and Travels," which inspired Herman Melville’s novella "Benito Cereno."
-
E.
Edward Henry Harriman
Edward Henry Harriman was a prominent American railroad executive and financier of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for reorganizing and expanding major railroads such as the Union Pacific.
- 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_69c0086c2364819091e9fe2f58fa2517 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 3:19 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c03a3e06848190b1d1a191db257a07 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 6:51 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c1083b22788190be47b593b30184c6 |
completed | March 23, 2026, 9:30 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69c1095d98c08190b43e84642af701f0 |
completed | March 23, 2026, 9:35 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69c10a5e061c81909e8085f3210452dc |
completed | March 23, 2026, 9:39 a.m. |
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:03 p.m.