Triple

T8255340
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Golden Spike Ceremony E193056 entity
Predicate attendee P858 FINISHED
Object Thomas Durant
Thomas Durant was a 19th-century American railroad executive and financier who played a key role in building the Union Pacific Railroad and the first U.S. transcontinental railroad.
E110939 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: Thomas Durant | Statement: [Golden Spike Ceremony, attendee, Thomas Durant]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Durant
Context triple: [Golden Spike Ceremony, attendee, Thomas Durant]
  • A. Thomas Durant
    Thomas Durant is a central character in the television series "Hell on Wheels," depicted as a ruthless and ambitious railroad tycoon driving the construction of the transcontinental railroad.
  • B. Charles W. Durant
    Charles W. Durant was a 19th-century American financier and railroad executive, known for his involvement in major railway enterprises and as a member of the prominent Durant family.
  • C. Charles T. Yerkes
    Charles T. Yerkes was a wealthy American financier and streetcar magnate of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for funding major astronomical and urban transit projects.
  • D. Collis P. Huntington
    Collis P. Huntington was a prominent 19th-century American railroad magnate and industrialist who played a key role in the development of the U.S. transportation infrastructure and major shipbuilding enterprises.
  • E. Henry Villard
    Henry Villard was a 19th-century German-American journalist, railroad magnate, and financier known for his leadership in the development of major U.S. railroads and his role as president of the Northern Pacific Railway.
  • 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: Thomas Durant
Triple: [Golden Spike Ceremony, attendee, Thomas Durant]
Generated description
Thomas Durant was a 19th-century American railroad executive and financier who played a key role in building the Union Pacific Railroad and the first U.S. transcontinental railroad.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Durant
Target entity description: Thomas Durant was a 19th-century American railroad executive and financier who played a key role in building the Union Pacific Railroad and the first U.S. transcontinental railroad.
  • A. Thomas Durant chosen
    Thomas Durant is a central character in the television series "Hell on Wheels," depicted as a ruthless and ambitious railroad tycoon driving the construction of the transcontinental railroad.
  • B. Charles W. Durant
    Charles W. Durant was a 19th-century American financier and railroad executive, known for his involvement in major railway enterprises and as a member of the prominent Durant family.
  • C. Charles T. Yerkes
    Charles T. Yerkes was a wealthy American financier and streetcar magnate of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for funding major astronomical and urban transit projects.
  • D. Collis P. Huntington
    Collis P. Huntington was a prominent 19th-century American railroad magnate and industrialist who played a key role in the development of the U.S. transportation infrastructure and major shipbuilding enterprises.
  • E. Henry Villard
    Henry Villard was a 19th-century German-American journalist, railroad magnate, and financier known for his leadership in the development of major U.S. railroads and his role as president of the Northern Pacific Railway.
  • F. None of above.

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_69ca82dfad9c8190b8cd18fb89f50f40 completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb78f9f680819088f1d56e0f98974f completed March 31, 2026, 7:34 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cd681457908190b39fa034e9ca05d5 completed April 1, 2026, 6:46 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cd6d4fa17481909f28ad7eb9bceb42 completed April 1, 2026, 7:09 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cd7dd65fac8190b8f44b1cf2be7bdd completed April 1, 2026, 8:19 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:48 p.m.