Triple

T846631
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute E18289 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Amos Eaton
Amos Eaton was a pioneering American scientist and educator who helped advance practical scientific and engineering education in the early 19th century.
E104395 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: Amos Eaton | Statement: [Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, foundedBy, Amos Eaton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Amos Eaton
Context triple: [Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, foundedBy, Amos Eaton]
  • A. Henry Barnard
    Henry Barnard was a British Army officer best known for leading British forces during the early stages of the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
  • B. Josiah Whitney
    Josiah Whitney was a prominent 19th-century American geologist and Harvard professor who served as the state geologist of California and became a leading figure in the geological exploration of the American West.
  • C. William Small
    William Small was an 18th-century Scottish physician and educator known for his influence on Thomas Jefferson and his role in the intellectual circle of the Lunar Society of Birmingham.
  • D. Charles Eliot
    Charles Eliot was a prominent American landscape architect of the late 19th century, known for his influential work in urban park and parkway design around Boston.
  • E. George A. Perkins
    George A. Perkins was an American lawyer best known as a founding partner of the prominent U.S. law firm Perkins Coie.
  • 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: Amos Eaton
Triple: [Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, foundedBy, Amos Eaton]
Generated description
Amos Eaton was a pioneering American scientist and educator who helped advance practical scientific and engineering education in the early 19th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Amos Eaton
Target entity description: Amos Eaton was a pioneering American scientist and educator who helped advance practical scientific and engineering education in the early 19th century.
  • A. Henry Barnard
    Henry Barnard was a British Army officer best known for leading British forces during the early stages of the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
  • B. Josiah Whitney
    Josiah Whitney was a prominent 19th-century American geologist and Harvard professor who served as the state geologist of California and became a leading figure in the geological exploration of the American West.
  • C. William Small
    William Small was an 18th-century Scottish physician and educator known for his influence on Thomas Jefferson and his role in the intellectual circle of the Lunar Society of Birmingham.
  • D. Charles Eliot
    Charles Eliot was a prominent American landscape architect of the late 19th century, known for his influential work in urban park and parkway design around Boston.
  • E. George A. Perkins
    George A. Perkins was an American lawyer best known as a founding partner of the prominent U.S. law firm Perkins Coie.
  • 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_69a4938b04208190b82e1df6b572c548 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4ac0ba6b4819089c15ed7e1765502 completed March 1, 2026, 9:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7b8472f188190b470893c76b20ccf completed March 4, 2026, 4:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7bc1acf708190aa86cd5eca101966 completed March 4, 2026, 4:59 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7bc96dd2881909310147292b99023 completed March 4, 2026, 5:01 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.