Triple

T5966961
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Payne Whitney E132776 entity
Predicate hasRelative P367 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.
E560928 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]
  • 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
  • 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.