Triple

T6628613
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Singer Sewing Machine Company E149864 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Isaac Merritt Singer
Isaac Merritt Singer was a 19th-century American inventor and entrepreneur best known for revolutionizing home sewing with his improvements to the sewing machine and the mass marketing of it.
E606620 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: Isaac Merritt Singer | Statement: [Singer Sewing Machine Company, foundedBy, Isaac Merritt Singer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Isaac Merritt Singer
Context triple: [Singer Sewing Machine Company, foundedBy, Isaac Merritt Singer]
  • A. Elias Howe
    Elias Howe was a 19th-century American inventor best known for creating and patenting an early practical sewing machine, which revolutionized the garment industry.
  • B. Cyrus McCormick
    Cyrus McCormick was a 19th-century American inventor and industrialist best known for developing the mechanical reaper, which revolutionized agriculture.
  • C. Elisha Otis
    Elisha Otis was an American inventor best known for developing a safety elevator that made modern skyscrapers practical and led to the creation of the Otis Elevator Company.
  • D. Francis Cabot Lowell
    Francis Cabot Lowell was an American industrialist whose innovations in textile manufacturing and factory organization helped launch the Industrial Revolution in the United States.
  • E. Elihu Thomson
    Elihu Thomson was a pioneering electrical engineer and inventor whose work in power systems and lighting helped shape the early electrical industry and led to the formation of General Electric.
  • 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: Isaac Merritt Singer
Triple: [Singer Sewing Machine Company, foundedBy, Isaac Merritt Singer]
Generated description
Isaac Merritt Singer was a 19th-century American inventor and entrepreneur best known for revolutionizing home sewing with his improvements to the sewing machine and the mass marketing of it.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Isaac Merritt Singer
Target entity description: Isaac Merritt Singer was a 19th-century American inventor and entrepreneur best known for revolutionizing home sewing with his improvements to the sewing machine and the mass marketing of it.
  • A. Elias Howe
    Elias Howe was a 19th-century American inventor best known for creating and patenting an early practical sewing machine, which revolutionized the garment industry.
  • B. Cyrus McCormick
    Cyrus McCormick was a 19th-century American inventor and industrialist best known for developing the mechanical reaper, which revolutionized agriculture.
  • C. Elisha Otis
    Elisha Otis was an American inventor best known for developing a safety elevator that made modern skyscrapers practical and led to the creation of the Otis Elevator Company.
  • D. Francis Cabot Lowell
    Francis Cabot Lowell was an American industrialist whose innovations in textile manufacturing and factory organization helped launch the Industrial Revolution in the United States.
  • E. Elihu Thomson
    Elihu Thomson was a pioneering electrical engineer and inventor whose work in power systems and lighting helped shape the early electrical industry and led to the formation of General Electric.
  • 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_69c687ee50048190aa151765bef16193 completed March 27, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6afa4a08481908cb5a554f388f32a completed March 27, 2026, 4:26 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6e44f5f9c819088cfb4fd87887766 completed March 27, 2026, 8:10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6e55028ac8190b2bde6637981195c completed March 27, 2026, 8:15 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c6e5eacefc819092d0e9f79d90c4a6 completed March 27, 2026, 8:17 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 1:59 p.m.