Triple
T9560383
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Forney locomotive |
E230656
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasInventor |
P632
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Matthias N. Forney |
E44958
|
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: Matthias N. Forney | Statement: [Forney locomotive, hasInventor, Matthias N. Forney]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Matthias N. Forney Context triple: [Forney locomotive, hasInventor, Matthias N. Forney]
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A.
Matthias N. Forney
chosen
Matthias N. Forney was a 19th-century American mechanical engineer and locomotive designer who played a key role in the early professionalization of mechanical engineering in the United States.
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B.
Porter J. McCumber
Porter J. McCumber was an American Republican senator from North Dakota best known for co-sponsoring the protectionist Fordney–McCumber Tariff of 1922.
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C.
James L. Massey
James L. Massey was an American information theorist and cryptographer known for his fundamental contributions to coding theory, stream ciphers, and the development of the Berlekamp–Massey algorithm.
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D.
David S. Mathewson
David S. Mathewson was an Australian radio astronomer known for his pioneering work on the structure and dynamics of nearby galaxies and intergalactic gas.
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E.
Bradford M. Durfee
Bradford M. Durfee was a prominent local industrialist and philanthropist from Fall River, Massachusetts, for whom Durfee Hall was named in recognition of his contributions to the community.
- 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_69ca847e53a88190a60eed7e02257f10 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cd994bde0c8190afcba5cb8fa8b984 |
completed | April 1, 2026, 10:16 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ee85e044e881909d426f7121dd89e1 |
completed | April 26, 2026, 9:38 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:03 p.m.