Triple

T609903
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Northwestern University E12074 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object Orrington Lunt
Orrington Lunt was a 19th-century Chicago grain merchant and philanthropist who played a key role in establishing Northwestern University.
E185978 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: Orrington Lunt | Statement: [Northwestern University, founder, Orrington Lunt]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Orrington Lunt
Context triple: [Northwestern University, founder, Orrington Lunt]
  • A. John L. Lumley
    John L. Lumley was a prominent American fluid dynamicist known for his pioneering contributions to the understanding and modeling of turbulence.
  • B. Paul Owens
    Paul Owens was a longtime Philadelphia Phillies executive and manager who helped build and lead the franchise to its first era of sustained success in the 1970s and early 1980s.
  • C. Lloyd Bryce
    Lloyd Bryce was an American editor, politician, and diplomat best known for his influential leadership of the North American Review in the late 19th century.
  • D. John Fletcher Hurst
    John Fletcher Hurst was a 19th-century American Methodist bishop, theologian, and educator who played a key role in advancing higher education and religious scholarship in the United States.
  • E. Sidney Darlington
    Sidney Darlington was an American electrical engineer and inventor best known for his pioneering work in network theory and the invention of the Darlington transistor configuration.
  • 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: Orrington Lunt
Triple: [Northwestern University, founder, Orrington Lunt]
Generated description
Orrington Lunt was a 19th-century Chicago grain merchant and philanthropist who played a key role in establishing Northwestern University.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Orrington Lunt
Target entity description: Orrington Lunt was a 19th-century Chicago grain merchant and philanthropist who played a key role in establishing Northwestern University.
  • A. John L. Lumley
    John L. Lumley was a prominent American fluid dynamicist known for his pioneering contributions to the understanding and modeling of turbulence.
  • B. Paul Owens
    Paul Owens was a longtime Philadelphia Phillies executive and manager who helped build and lead the franchise to its first era of sustained success in the 1970s and early 1980s.
  • C. Lloyd Bryce
    Lloyd Bryce was an American editor, politician, and diplomat best known for his influential leadership of the North American Review in the late 19th century.
  • D. John Fletcher Hurst
    John Fletcher Hurst was a 19th-century American Methodist bishop, theologian, and educator who played a key role in advancing higher education and religious scholarship in the United States.
  • E. Sidney Darlington
    Sidney Darlington was an American electrical engineer and inventor best known for his pioneering work in network theory and the invention of the Darlington transistor configuration.
  • 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_69a493309df48190a327f748e88049a6 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49df68f2c8190a0ee9da4692b2a62 completed March 1, 2026, 8:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad606954e8819086ae3e46f3628483 completed March 8, 2026, 11:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad61e9f1e88190abdd07084e107fca completed March 8, 2026, 11:47 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad625af68481908dc5d43781aeff03 completed March 8, 2026, 11:49 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:35 p.m.