Triple

T8883425
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Isthmian Canal Commission E211465 entity
Predicate hasMember P10 FINISHED
Object Mordecai T. Endicott
Mordecai T. Endicott was a U.S. Navy civil engineer and Rear Admiral who served as the first Civil Engineer Corps Chief and contributed to early planning efforts for the Panama Canal.
 E767290 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: Mordecai T. Endicott | Statement: [Isthmian Canal Commission, hasMember, Mordecai T. Endicott]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Mordecai T. Endicott
Context triple: [Isthmian Canal Commission, hasMember, Mordecai T. Endicott]
  • A. Francis B. Loomis
    Francis B. Loomis was an American diplomat and politician who served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State and briefly as acting Secretary of State in the early 20th century.
  • B. Henry B. Endicott
    Henry B. Endicott was an American industrialist and shoe manufacturer whose influence and philanthropy led to the naming of the village of Endicott, New York in his honor.
  • C. John J. Herrick
    John J. Herrick was a U.S. Navy officer who commanded American naval forces involved in the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident, a pivotal event that escalated U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
  • D. Hobart B. Bigelow
    Hobart B. Bigelow was an American industrialist and politician who served as the 50th governor of Connecticut in the early 1880s.
  • E. William W. Norton
    William W. Norton was an American publisher who co-founded the influential independent publishing house W. W. Norton & Company.
  • 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: Mordecai T. Endicott
Triple: [Isthmian Canal Commission, hasMember, Mordecai T. Endicott]
Generated description
Mordecai T. Endicott was a U.S. Navy civil engineer and Rear Admiral who served as the first Civil Engineer Corps Chief and contributed to early planning efforts for the Panama Canal.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Mordecai T. Endicott
Target entity description: Mordecai T. Endicott was a U.S. Navy civil engineer and Rear Admiral who served as the first Civil Engineer Corps Chief and contributed to early planning efforts for the Panama Canal.
  • A. Francis B. Loomis
    Francis B. Loomis was an American diplomat and politician who served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State and briefly as acting Secretary of State in the early 20th century.
  • B. Henry B. Endicott
    Henry B. Endicott was an American industrialist and shoe manufacturer whose influence and philanthropy led to the naming of the village of Endicott, New York in his honor.
  • C. John J. Herrick
    John J. Herrick was a U.S. Navy officer who commanded American naval forces involved in the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin incident, a pivotal event that escalated U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
  • D. Hobart B. Bigelow
    Hobart B. Bigelow was an American industrialist and politician who served as the 50th governor of Connecticut in the early 1880s.
  • E. William W. Norton
    William W. Norton was an American publisher who co-founded the influential independent publishing house W. W. Norton & Company.
  • 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_69ca838f9e20819096ab1f236a70381a completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc616b2d988190b923ef1e33aab787 completed April 1, 2026, 12:06 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cfc1c641048190aabbc10f461099f4 completed April 3, 2026, 1:33 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cfc24b4fe481909b7c4f58b787a21e completed April 3, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cfc33fbedc8190a8f04ec6f43891f0 completed April 3, 2026, 1:40 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:53 p.m.