Triple

T5966966
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Payne Whitney E132776 entity
Predicate sibling P363 FINISHED
Object Harry Payne Whitney
Harry Payne Whitney was a prominent American businessman, thoroughbred racehorse owner, and polo player from the influential Whitney family in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
E559352 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: Harry Payne Whitney | Statement: [Payne Whitney, sibling, Harry Payne Whitney]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harry Payne Whitney
Context triple: [Payne Whitney, sibling, Harry Payne Whitney]
  • A. John Hay Whitney
    John Hay Whitney was an American businessman, diplomat, publisher, and prominent art collector who served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom and owned the New York Herald Tribune.
  • B. C. V. Whitney
    C. V. Whitney was an American businessman, film producer, and prominent member of the wealthy Whitney family, known for his involvement in both the motion picture industry and thoroughbred horse racing.
  • C. William Thompson Walters
    William Thompson Walters was a prominent 19th-century American art collector and businessman whose collection and patronage laid the foundation for the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.
  • D. Herbert H. Bateman
    Herbert H. Bateman was a long-serving Republican U.S. Representative from Virginia who focused on defense and military affairs during his tenure in Congress.
  • E. Thomas W. Lamont
    Thomas W. Lamont was a prominent American banker and philanthropist associated with J.P. Morgan & Co. whose support for education and the arts led to institutions such as Harvard’s Lamont Library bearing his name.
  • 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: Harry Payne Whitney
Triple: [Payne Whitney, sibling, Harry Payne Whitney]
Generated description
Harry Payne Whitney was a prominent American businessman, thoroughbred racehorse owner, and polo player from the influential Whitney family in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harry Payne Whitney
Target entity description: Harry Payne Whitney was a prominent American businessman, thoroughbred racehorse owner, and polo player from the influential Whitney family in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • A. John Hay Whitney
    John Hay Whitney was an American businessman, diplomat, publisher, and prominent art collector who served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom and owned the New York Herald Tribune.
  • B. C. V. Whitney
    C. V. Whitney was an American businessman, film producer, and prominent member of the wealthy Whitney family, known for his involvement in both the motion picture industry and thoroughbred horse racing.
  • C. William Thompson Walters
    William Thompson Walters was a prominent 19th-century American art collector and businessman whose collection and patronage laid the foundation for the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore.
  • D. Herbert H. Bateman
    Herbert H. Bateman was a long-serving Republican U.S. Representative from Virginia who focused on defense and military affairs during his tenure in Congress.
  • E. Thomas W. Lamont
    Thomas W. Lamont was a prominent American banker and philanthropist associated with J.P. Morgan & Co. whose support for education and the arts led to institutions such as Harvard’s Lamont Library bearing his name.
  • 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_69c0e3ff62f08190be56bb9c450c9647 completed March 23, 2026, 6:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c0f61d80808190913b425c3c57f990 completed March 23, 2026, 8:13 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c0f6a75b908190b35d13b9593cf21f completed March 23, 2026, 8:15 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:03 p.m.