Triple

T18640903
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Huntington Russell E455679 entity
Predicate relative P37 FINISHED
Object Samuel Russell
Samuel Russell was a 19th-century American merchant and founder of the influential Russell & Company trading firm, which played a major role in U.S.-China trade.
E1338748 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 Russell | Statement: [William Huntington Russell, relative, Samuel Russell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Russell
Context triple: [William Huntington Russell, relative, Samuel Russell]
  • A. Samuel Russell
    Samuel Russell was an architect known for designing the Middlesex Guildhall in London, a notable example of early 20th-century civic architecture.
  • B. Samuel Bryan
    Samuel Bryan was an American Anti-Federalist writer and pamphleteer best known for authoring the influential "Centinel" essays opposing the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
  • C. Benjamin Russell
    Benjamin Russell was an American journalist and newspaper editor credited with popularizing the term "Era of Good Feelings" to describe the period of political harmony following the War of 1812.
  • D. Samuel Ward
    Samuel Ward was a 19th-century American banker and art patron known for commissioning significant works such as Thomas Cole’s "The Voyage of Life" series.
  • E. Samuel Pearson
    Samuel Pearson was a British entrepreneur and publisher best known for establishing the company that evolved into the global education and publishing corporation Pearson plc.
  • 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 Russell
Triple: [William Huntington Russell, relative, Samuel Russell]
Generated description
Samuel Russell was a 19th-century American merchant and founder of the influential Russell & Company trading firm, which played a major role in U.S.-China trade.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Russell
Target entity description: Samuel Russell was a 19th-century American merchant and founder of the influential Russell & Company trading firm, which played a major role in U.S.-China trade.
  • A. Samuel Russell
    Samuel Russell was an architect known for designing the Middlesex Guildhall in London, a notable example of early 20th-century civic architecture.
  • B. Samuel Bryan
    Samuel Bryan was an American Anti-Federalist writer and pamphleteer best known for authoring the influential "Centinel" essays opposing the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.
  • C. Benjamin Russell
    Benjamin Russell was an American journalist and newspaper editor credited with popularizing the term "Era of Good Feelings" to describe the period of political harmony following the War of 1812.
  • D. Samuel Ward
    Samuel Ward was a 19th-century American banker and art patron known for commissioning significant works such as Thomas Cole’s "The Voyage of Life" series.
  • E. Samuel Pearson
    Samuel Pearson was a British entrepreneur and publisher best known for establishing the company that evolved into the global education and publishing corporation Pearson plc.
  • 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_69d8d38ea1e88190997e9b231190ba6f completed April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e54fccafec8190a340356d5bbd3cdf completed April 19, 2026, 9:57 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a052b25ffc08190ad347712a6641819 completed May 14, 2026, 1:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a052c6373088190a81e53963dac9c6f completed May 14, 2026, 1:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a052d6f1f8081908810e99dff28b586 completed May 14, 2026, 2:03 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:47 a.m.