Triple

T955621
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Crocker family E20619 entity
Predicate hasNotableMember P304 FINISHED
Object Charles Crocker
Charles Crocker was a 19th-century American railroad executive and industrialist best known as one of the "Big Four" who built the Central Pacific Railroad and helped create the first U.S. transcontinental railroad.
E121839 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: Charles Crocker | Statement: [Crocker family, hasNotableMember, Charles Crocker]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Crocker
Context triple: [Crocker family, hasNotableMember, Charles Crocker]
  • A. John Sutter
    John Sutter was a Swiss-born pioneer and landowner in Mexican and early American California, best known for establishing the agricultural empire around which Sacramento developed and for his connection to the California Gold Rush.
  • B. James J. Hill
    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.
  • C. Andrew Smith Hallidie
    Andrew Smith Hallidie was a 19th-century engineer and inventor credited with pioneering San Francisco’s cable car system and advancing wire rope technology.
  • D. Leland Stanford
    Leland Stanford was an American industrialist, railroad magnate, and politician who served as governor of California and co-founded Stanford University.
  • E. Edwin B. Crocker
    Edwin B. Crocker was a 19th-century California judge, lawyer, and art collector whose personal collection and patronage led to the creation of the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento.
  • 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: Charles Crocker
Triple: [Crocker family, hasNotableMember, Charles Crocker]
Generated description
Charles Crocker was a 19th-century American railroad executive and industrialist best known as one of the "Big Four" who built the Central Pacific Railroad and helped create the first U.S. transcontinental railroad.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Crocker
Target entity description: Charles Crocker was a 19th-century American railroad executive and industrialist best known as one of the "Big Four" who built the Central Pacific Railroad and helped create the first U.S. transcontinental railroad.
  • A. John Sutter
    John Sutter was a Swiss-born pioneer and landowner in Mexican and early American California, best known for establishing the agricultural empire around which Sacramento developed and for his connection to the California Gold Rush.
  • B. James J. Hill
    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.
  • C. Andrew Smith Hallidie
    Andrew Smith Hallidie was a 19th-century engineer and inventor credited with pioneering San Francisco’s cable car system and advancing wire rope technology.
  • D. Leland Stanford
    Leland Stanford was an American industrialist, railroad magnate, and politician who served as governor of California and co-founded Stanford University.
  • E. Edwin B. Crocker
    Edwin B. Crocker was a 19th-century California judge, lawyer, and art collector whose personal collection and patronage led to the creation of the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento.
  • 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_69a493b21f2881908132dcf45dcd2f36 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b3f7a7608190b8a8dd2486654bec completed March 1, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac3b9f75e48190a0e291a1ac865b91 completed March 7, 2026, 2:52 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac3dadd5388190af302ad0e67fefbe completed March 7, 2026, 3:01 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac3e50e6dc81909f3a03b749ea7969 completed March 7, 2026, 3:03 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:40 p.m.