Triple

T6959145
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sierra Railway of California E161322 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object William H. Crocker
William H. Crocker was an American banker and railroad executive from a prominent California family who played a key role in the development of transportation and infrastructure in the state.
E633943 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 H. Crocker | Statement: [Sierra Railway of California, founder, William H. Crocker]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William H. Crocker
Context triple: [Sierra Railway of California, founder, William H. Crocker]
  • A. Edwin B. Crocker
    Edwin B. Crocker was a 19th-century California judge, lawyer, and art collector whose personal collection and patronage led to the creation of the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento.
  • B. Reuben H. Fleet
    Reuben H. Fleet was an American aviation pioneer and industrialist who founded the aircraft manufacturing company that later became Convair.
  • C. Charles F. Wurster
    Charles F. Wurster is an American environmental scientist and activist best known as a co-founder of the Environmental Defense Fund and an early leader in efforts to regulate DDT and other harmful pollutants.
  • D. Howard T. Markey
    Howard T. Markey was a prominent American jurist best known as the first chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and a leading figure in modern patent law.
  • E. Frederick H. Hauck
    Frederick H. Hauck is a retired U.S. Navy captain and NASA astronaut who commanded multiple Space Shuttle missions during the 1980s.
  • 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 H. Crocker
Triple: [Sierra Railway of California, founder, William H. Crocker]
Generated description
William H. Crocker was an American banker and railroad executive from a prominent California family who played a key role in the development of transportation and infrastructure in the state.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William H. Crocker
Target entity description: William H. Crocker was an American banker and railroad executive from a prominent California family who played a key role in the development of transportation and infrastructure in the state.
  • A. Edwin B. Crocker
    Edwin B. Crocker was a 19th-century California judge, lawyer, and art collector whose personal collection and patronage led to the creation of the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento.
  • B. Reuben H. Fleet
    Reuben H. Fleet was an American aviation pioneer and industrialist who founded the aircraft manufacturing company that later became Convair.
  • C. Charles F. Wurster
    Charles F. Wurster is an American environmental scientist and activist best known as a co-founder of the Environmental Defense Fund and an early leader in efforts to regulate DDT and other harmful pollutants.
  • D. Howard T. Markey
    Howard T. Markey was a prominent American jurist best known as the first chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and a leading figure in modern patent law.
  • E. Frederick H. Hauck
    Frederick H. Hauck is a retired U.S. Navy captain and NASA astronaut who commanded multiple Space Shuttle missions during the 1980s.
  • 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_69c68852a9a0819097797e31d492e273 completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6daedbb4c8190b46846fb1265b937 completed March 27, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7618df8648190bec6c0aaca312efd completed March 28, 2026, 5:05 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c763e95d8081908885dec9a5ca90c7 completed March 28, 2026, 5:15 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7643fdea0819093205e5d8bf9a818 completed March 28, 2026, 5:16 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:29 p.m.