Triple

T8975473
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mary Theresa Mehegan Hill E214375 entity
Predicate spouseNotableFor P19181 FINISHED
Object James J. Hill was known as the "Empire Builder" E25066 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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: James J. Hill was known as the "Empire Builder" | Statement: [Mary Theresa Mehegan Hill, spouseNotableFor, James J. Hill was known as the "Empire Builder"]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James J. Hill was known as the "Empire Builder"
Context triple: [Mary Theresa Mehegan Hill, spouseNotableFor, James J. Hill was known as the "Empire Builder"]
  • A. James J. Hill chosen
    James J. Hill was a prominent American railroad magnate best known for building and expanding the Great Northern Railway during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Thomas A. Scott
    Thomas A. Scott was a prominent 19th-century American railroad executive and businessman who played a key logistical role for the Union during the Civil War.
  • D. 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.
  • E. William Cornelius Van Horne
    William Cornelius Van Horne was a prominent 19th-century railway executive best known for overseeing the construction and expansion of the Canadian Pacific Railway, which was crucial to Canada's transcontinental development.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69ca839ea8b88190922c6a326ffcc0d3 completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc6784d1808190899c980f76084ff8 completed April 1, 2026, 12:32 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cfc96aa46c81908b95a23fd2b4da57 completed April 3, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:02 p.m.