Triple

T18606904
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Fort Dearborn E454777 entity
Predicate architect P184 FINISHED
Object Captain John Whistler
Captain John Whistler was a British-born American army officer and early frontier engineer known for designing and overseeing the construction of several U.S. military forts in the early 19th century.
E1336588 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: Captain John Whistler | Statement: [Fort Dearborn, architect, Captain John Whistler]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Captain John Whistler
Context triple: [Fort Dearborn, architect, Captain John Whistler]
  • A. Captain John Nicholson
    Captain John Nicholson was a 19th-century mariner after whom New Zealand’s Wellington Harbour was named, reflecting his role in the region’s early maritime history.
  • B. Captain William Diel
    Captain William Diel is a supporting character in the Rush Hour film series, serving as a gruff but well-meaning Los Angeles Police Department superior to Detective James Carter.
  • C. Captain William Renton
    Captain William Renton was a 19th-century American lumberman and entrepreneur in the Pacific Northwest whose influence on the regional timber industry led to the city of Renton, Washington being named in his honor.
  • D. Captain William Newberry
    Captain William Newberry was a British intelligence officer in Dublin during the Irish War of Independence, known for his role in the covert Cairo Gang targeted by Michael Collins’s IRA.
  • E. Captain John Hart
    Captain John Hart is a roguish, time-traveling former Time Agent and ex-partner of Captain Jack Harkness in the British sci-fi series Torchwood.
  • 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: Captain John Whistler
Triple: [Fort Dearborn, architect, Captain John Whistler]
Generated description
Captain John Whistler was a British-born American army officer and early frontier engineer known for designing and overseeing the construction of several U.S. military forts in the early 19th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Captain John Whistler
Target entity description: Captain John Whistler was a British-born American army officer and early frontier engineer known for designing and overseeing the construction of several U.S. military forts in the early 19th century.
  • A. Captain John Nicholson
    Captain John Nicholson was a 19th-century mariner after whom New Zealand’s Wellington Harbour was named, reflecting his role in the region’s early maritime history.
  • B. Captain William Diel
    Captain William Diel is a supporting character in the Rush Hour film series, serving as a gruff but well-meaning Los Angeles Police Department superior to Detective James Carter.
  • C. Captain William Renton
    Captain William Renton was a 19th-century American lumberman and entrepreneur in the Pacific Northwest whose influence on the regional timber industry led to the city of Renton, Washington being named in his honor.
  • D. Captain William Newberry
    Captain William Newberry was a British intelligence officer in Dublin during the Irish War of Independence, known for his role in the covert Cairo Gang targeted by Michael Collins’s IRA.
  • E. Captain John Hart
    Captain John Hart is a roguish, time-traveling former Time Agent and ex-partner of Captain Jack Harkness in the British sci-fi series Torchwood.
  • 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_69d8d38bbe7c8190bdec3138e7d413c9 completed April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e547552a648190839cd8cdfed15e12 completed April 19, 2026, 9:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a05170f76188190912e8f79bd110b09 completed May 14, 2026, 12:27 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a05192a654481908235ea8e16150c9b completed May 14, 2026, 12:36 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a05199a9abc8190baba3e1ba422fd03 completed May 14, 2026, 12:38 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:45 a.m.