Triple

T675904
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject General Electric E13076 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Edwin J. Houston
Edwin J. Houston was an American electrical engineer, inventor, and educator who co-founded General Electric and made significant contributions to the development and popularization of electrical power systems.
E109552 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: Edwin J. Houston | Statement: [General Electric, foundedBy, Edwin J. Houston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edwin J. Houston
Context triple: [General Electric, foundedBy, Edwin J. Houston]
  • A. David G. Burnet
    David G. Burnet was an early political leader of the Republic of Texas who served as its interim president and later held other high offices in the fledgling Texan government.
  • B. Henry B. Steagall
    Henry B. Steagall was an American Democratic congressman from Alabama best known for his key role in New Deal–era financial legislation, including coauthoring the landmark Glass–Steagall Act.
  • C. Lofton R. Henderson
    Lofton R. Henderson was a U.S. Marine Corps aviator and squadron commander killed during the Battle of Midway in World War II, remembered for his leadership and sacrifice in one of the war’s pivotal engagements.
  • D. Holland M. Smith
    Holland M. Smith was a prominent U.S. Marine Corps general in World War II, renowned for his leadership of amphibious assaults in the Pacific Theater.
  • E. Robert W. Hunt
    Robert W. Hunt was an American engineer and industrialist known for his influential role in the development of the U.S. mining and metallurgical industries and leadership in professional engineering organizations.
  • 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: Edwin J. Houston
Triple: [General Electric, foundedBy, Edwin J. Houston]
Generated description
Edwin J. Houston was an American electrical engineer, inventor, and educator who co-founded General Electric and made significant contributions to the development and popularization of electrical power systems.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edwin J. Houston
Target entity description: Edwin J. Houston was an American electrical engineer, inventor, and educator who co-founded General Electric and made significant contributions to the development and popularization of electrical power systems.
  • A. David G. Burnet
    David G. Burnet was an early political leader of the Republic of Texas who served as its interim president and later held other high offices in the fledgling Texan government.
  • B. Henry B. Steagall
    Henry B. Steagall was an American Democratic congressman from Alabama best known for his key role in New Deal–era financial legislation, including coauthoring the landmark Glass–Steagall Act.
  • C. Lofton R. Henderson
    Lofton R. Henderson was a U.S. Marine Corps aviator and squadron commander killed during the Battle of Midway in World War II, remembered for his leadership and sacrifice in one of the war’s pivotal engagements.
  • D. Holland M. Smith
    Holland M. Smith was a prominent U.S. Marine Corps general in World War II, renowned for his leadership of amphibious assaults in the Pacific Theater.
  • E. Robert W. Hunt
    Robert W. Hunt was an American engineer and industrialist known for his influential role in the development of the U.S. mining and metallurgical industries and leadership in professional engineering organizations.
  • 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_69a4933d3bf88190972041cd8cf143b9 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a04b2ae881908a5c23453bef8572 completed March 1, 2026, 8:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7edf6b02c8190995c50a98b4ec326 completed March 4, 2026, 8:31 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7f1cc03b48190a291ca9c20646648 completed March 4, 2026, 8:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7f26264d48190ad04ee855523fcc1 completed March 4, 2026, 8:50 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.