Triple

T8995639
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alvah Curtis Roebuck E214898 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object Alvah
Alvah is a given name most notably borne by Alvah Curtis Roebuck, the co-founder of Sears, Roebuck and Company.
 E771005 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: Alvah | Statement: [Alvah Curtis Roebuck, givenName, Alvah]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Alvah
Context triple: [Alvah Curtis Roebuck, givenName, Alvah]
  • A. Ephraim Williams
    Ephraim Williams was an 18th-century American soldier and landowner whose bequest led to the establishment of Williams College in Massachusetts.
  • B. Benjamin Holladay
    Benjamin Holladay was a 19th-century American transportation magnate known as the “Stagecoach King” for building a vast stagecoach empire across the western United States.
  • C. Nathan Appleton
    Nathan Appleton was a prominent 19th-century American merchant, industrialist, and politician who played a key role in the early textile industry in New England.
  • D. Ogden Morrow
    Ogden Morrow is a key supporting character in Ernest Cline's novel "Ready Player One," known as the reclusive co-creator of the virtual reality world OASIS.
  • E. Ephraim Hart
    Ephraim Hart was an early American merchant and broker who was among the founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
  • 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: Alvah
Triple: [Alvah Curtis Roebuck, givenName, Alvah]
Generated description
Alvah is a given name most notably borne by Alvah Curtis Roebuck, the co-founder of Sears, Roebuck and Company.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Alvah
Target entity description: Alvah is a given name most notably borne by Alvah Curtis Roebuck, the co-founder of Sears, Roebuck and Company.
  • A. Ephraim Williams
    Ephraim Williams was an 18th-century American soldier and landowner whose bequest led to the establishment of Williams College in Massachusetts.
  • B. Benjamin Holladay
    Benjamin Holladay was a 19th-century American transportation magnate known as the “Stagecoach King” for building a vast stagecoach empire across the western United States.
  • C. Nathan Appleton
    Nathan Appleton was a prominent 19th-century American merchant, industrialist, and politician who played a key role in the early textile industry in New England.
  • D. Ogden Morrow
    Ogden Morrow is a key supporting character in Ernest Cline's novel "Ready Player One," known as the reclusive co-creator of the virtual reality world OASIS.
  • E. Ephraim Hart
    Ephraim Hart was an early American merchant and broker who was among the founders of what became the New York Stock Exchange.
  • 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_69ca83a05c608190bdfdbdb25e994b39 completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc68df33c48190a5017426e59c0bc4 completed April 1, 2026, 12:37 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cfd0d0e6a08190a2faf4157b8a9cd4 completed April 3, 2026, 2:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cfd193fdbc8190b49192327f698943 completed April 3, 2026, 2:41 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cfd242590881909ca351c1040c76ef completed April 3, 2026, 2:44 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:04 p.m.