Triple

T990788
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Edison Machine Works E21383 entity
Predicate notablePerson P304 FINISHED
Object Samuel Insull
Samuel Insull was a British-born American business magnate and utilities executive who built a vast Midwestern electric power empire and helped shape the modern electrical infrastructure and public utility regulation in the United States.
E140340 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: Samuel Insull | Statement: [Edison Machine Works, notablePerson, Samuel Insull]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Insull
Context triple: [Edison Machine Works, notablePerson, Samuel Insull]
  • A. Charles T. Yerkes
    Charles T. Yerkes was a wealthy American financier and streetcar magnate of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for funding major astronomical and urban transit projects.
  • B. Thomas W. Lamont
    Thomas W. Lamont was a prominent American banker and philanthropist associated with J.P. Morgan & Co. whose support for education and the arts led to institutions such as Harvard’s Lamont Library bearing his name.
  • C. Edward Mead Johnson
    Edward Mead Johnson was an American businessman and co-founder of the healthcare company Johnson & Johnson, later known for establishing a major infant nutrition business.
  • D. Thomas Durant
    Thomas Durant is a central character in the television series "Hell on Wheels," depicted as a ruthless and ambitious railroad tycoon driving the construction of the transcontinental railroad.
  • E. Otto H. Kahn
    Otto H. Kahn was a prominent German-born American investment banker, philanthropist, and patron of the arts active in the early 20th century.
  • 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: Samuel Insull
Triple: [Edison Machine Works, notablePerson, Samuel Insull]
Generated description
Samuel Insull was a British-born American business magnate and utilities executive who built a vast Midwestern electric power empire and helped shape the modern electrical infrastructure and public utility regulation in the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Insull
Target entity description: Samuel Insull was a British-born American business magnate and utilities executive who built a vast Midwestern electric power empire and helped shape the modern electrical infrastructure and public utility regulation in the United States.
  • A. Charles T. Yerkes
    Charles T. Yerkes was a wealthy American financier and streetcar magnate of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for funding major astronomical and urban transit projects.
  • B. Thomas W. Lamont
    Thomas W. Lamont was a prominent American banker and philanthropist associated with J.P. Morgan & Co. whose support for education and the arts led to institutions such as Harvard’s Lamont Library bearing his name.
  • C. Edward Mead Johnson
    Edward Mead Johnson was an American businessman and co-founder of the healthcare company Johnson & Johnson, later known for establishing a major infant nutrition business.
  • D. Thomas Durant
    Thomas Durant is a central character in the television series "Hell on Wheels," depicted as a ruthless and ambitious railroad tycoon driving the construction of the transcontinental railroad.
  • E. Otto H. Kahn
    Otto H. Kahn was a prominent German-born American investment banker, philanthropist, and patron of the arts active in the early 20th century.
  • 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_69a493c383dc8190a03257f22d4b4183 completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b4ac27e081908f132115464667b2 completed March 1, 2026, 9:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac89f9d7688190836459b2453e5e2b completed March 7, 2026, 8:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac8ac4e1648190b0b5b77eb617b3df completed March 7, 2026, 8:29 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac8b215458819080447a79e55e8ef0 completed March 7, 2026, 8:31 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:41 p.m.