Triple

T6109962
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Gulf Oil E136210 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object William Larimer Mellon Sr.
William Larimer Mellon Sr. was an American businessman and member of the prominent Mellon family who co-founded the major petroleum company Gulf Oil.
E569373 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 Larimer Mellon Sr. | Statement: [Gulf Oil, foundedBy, William Larimer Mellon Sr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Larimer Mellon Sr.
Context triple: [Gulf Oil, foundedBy, William Larimer Mellon Sr.]
  • A. Richard B. Mellon
    Richard B. Mellon was an American banker, industrialist, and philanthropist from the prominent Mellon family who played a major role in early 20th-century finance and industry.
  • B. Andrew W. Mellon
    Andrew W. Mellon was an American financier, industrialist, and philanthropist who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and became a major patron of the arts.
  • C. M. G. Mellon
    M. G. Mellon was a distinguished chemist recognized for his outstanding contributions to the field, as evidenced by his receipt of the American Chemical Society’s highest honor, the Priestley Medal.
  • D. Thomas Mellon
    Thomas Mellon was a 19th-century Irish-American lawyer, judge, and entrepreneur who founded the Mellon family fortune and banking dynasty in Pittsburgh.
  • E. Henry J. Leir
    Henry J. Leir was a Luxembourg-born industrialist, philanthropist, and writer known for his significant contributions to business and charitable causes in Europe and the United States.
  • 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 Larimer Mellon Sr.
Triple: [Gulf Oil, foundedBy, William Larimer Mellon Sr.]
Generated description
William Larimer Mellon Sr. was an American businessman and member of the prominent Mellon family who co-founded the major petroleum company Gulf Oil.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Larimer Mellon Sr.
Target entity description: William Larimer Mellon Sr. was an American businessman and member of the prominent Mellon family who co-founded the major petroleum company Gulf Oil.
  • A. Richard B. Mellon
    Richard B. Mellon was an American banker, industrialist, and philanthropist from the prominent Mellon family who played a major role in early 20th-century finance and industry.
  • B. Andrew W. Mellon
    Andrew W. Mellon was an American financier, industrialist, and philanthropist who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and became a major patron of the arts.
  • C. M. G. Mellon
    M. G. Mellon was a distinguished chemist recognized for his outstanding contributions to the field, as evidenced by his receipt of the American Chemical Society’s highest honor, the Priestley Medal.
  • D. Thomas Mellon
    Thomas Mellon was a 19th-century Irish-American lawyer, judge, and entrepreneur who founded the Mellon family fortune and banking dynasty in Pittsburgh.
  • E. Henry J. Leir
    Henry J. Leir was a Luxembourg-born industrialist, philanthropist, and writer known for his significant contributions to business and charitable causes in Europe and the United States.
  • 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_69c0089ea6f88190b349be53e04b4f5f completed March 22, 2026, 3:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c05b84ed088190a12cdb844d743326 completed March 22, 2026, 9:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c1255f03e08190b62cd8ca2c079afb completed March 23, 2026, 11:34 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c1268cbac48190aae1682b1620ea41 completed March 23, 2026, 11:39 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c1274251c4819090de776c702e4ac8 completed March 23, 2026, 11:42 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:13 p.m.