Triple

T8995640
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alvah Curtis Roebuck E214898 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Roebuck
Roebuck is a surname most notably associated with Alvah Curtis Roebuck, the co-founder of the American retail company Sears, Roebuck and Co.
 E771006 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: Roebuck | Statement: [Alvah Curtis Roebuck, familyName, Roebuck]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Roebuck
Context triple: [Alvah Curtis Roebuck, familyName, Roebuck]
  • A. Roebuck
    Roebuck is a small rural community located within the township of Edwardsburgh/Cardinal in eastern Ontario, Canada.
  • B. Yamba
    Yamba is a coastal town in northern New South Wales, Australia, known for its beaches, fishing, and laid-back holiday atmosphere.
  • C. Bogue
    Bogue is a locality in southern China near the Pearl River Delta that historically served as a strategic site for foreign trade and treaty negotiations during the 19th century.
  • D. Cobargo
    Cobargo is a small rural village in New South Wales, Australia, known for its historic streetscape and arts-and-crafts community in the Bega Valley region.
  • E. Koonch
    Koonch is a town in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, historically notable as the site of a significant battle during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
  • 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: Roebuck
Triple: [Alvah Curtis Roebuck, familyName, Roebuck]
Generated description
Roebuck is a surname most notably associated with Alvah Curtis Roebuck, the co-founder of the American retail company Sears, Roebuck and Co.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Roebuck
Target entity description: Roebuck is a surname most notably associated with Alvah Curtis Roebuck, the co-founder of the American retail company Sears, Roebuck and Co.
  • A. Roebuck
    Roebuck is a small rural community located within the township of Edwardsburgh/Cardinal in eastern Ontario, Canada.
  • B. Yamba
    Yamba is a coastal town in northern New South Wales, Australia, known for its beaches, fishing, and laid-back holiday atmosphere.
  • C. Bogue
    Bogue is a locality in southern China near the Pearl River Delta that historically served as a strategic site for foreign trade and treaty negotiations during the 19th century.
  • D. Cobargo
    Cobargo is a small rural village in New South Wales, Australia, known for its historic streetscape and arts-and-crafts community in the Bega Valley region.
  • E. Koonch
    Koonch is a town in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, historically notable as the site of a significant battle during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
  • 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.