Triple

T18863612
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mount Washington Observatory E461375 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Robert S. Monahan
Robert S. Monahan was an American meteorologist and scientist best known for establishing the Mount Washington Observatory in New Hampshire.
 E1487933 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: Robert S. Monahan | Statement: [Mount Washington Observatory, foundedBy, Robert S. Monahan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Robert S. Monahan
Context triple: [Mount Washington Observatory, foundedBy, Robert S. Monahan]
  • A. Robert F. McGowan
    Robert F. McGowan was an American film director best known for his work on the "Our Gang" (Little Rascals) comedy shorts during the silent and early sound eras.
  • B. Robert C. O'Brien
    Robert C. O'Brien was the pen name of American author Robert Leslie Conly, best known for his Newbery Medal–winning children's novel "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH."
  • C. Vincent J. McDonough
    Vincent J. McDonough was a prominent figure at Georgetown University, honored for his contributions to the institution through the naming of McDonough Gymnasium.
  • D. Edward P. Doherty
    Edward P. Doherty was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading the detachment that captured and killed President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, at a farm near Port Royal, Virginia.
  • E. Glen A. Doherty
    Glen A. Doherty was a former U.S. Navy SEAL and CIA security contractor who was killed during the 2012 Benghazi attack in Libya.
  • 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: Robert S. Monahan
Triple: [Mount Washington Observatory, foundedBy, Robert S. Monahan]
Generated description
Robert S. Monahan was an American meteorologist and scientist best known for establishing the Mount Washington Observatory in New Hampshire.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Robert S. Monahan
Target entity description: Robert S. Monahan was an American meteorologist and scientist best known for establishing the Mount Washington Observatory in New Hampshire.
  • A. Robert F. McGowan
    Robert F. McGowan was an American film director best known for his work on the "Our Gang" (Little Rascals) comedy shorts during the silent and early sound eras.
  • B. Robert C. O'Brien
    Robert C. O'Brien was the pen name of American author Robert Leslie Conly, best known for his Newbery Medal–winning children's novel "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH."
  • C. Vincent J. McDonough
    Vincent J. McDonough was a prominent figure at Georgetown University, honored for his contributions to the institution through the naming of McDonough Gymnasium.
  • D. Edward P. Doherty
    Edward P. Doherty was a U.S. Army officer best known for leading the detachment that captured and killed President Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, at a farm near Port Royal, Virginia.
  • E. Glen A. Doherty
    Glen A. Doherty was a former U.S. Navy SEAL and CIA security contractor who was killed during the 2012 Benghazi attack in Libya.
  • 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_69d8dcfb7b9c8190854e7b171b98ea2e completed April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5c2a304d4819092f14b7932d01afe completed April 20, 2026, 6:07 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a09e11c15f08190a8db613e7b34f0a7 completed May 17, 2026, 3:39 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a09e20fc78c8190938ec8f40ff98772 completed May 17, 2026, 3:43 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a09e2b77d90819083138b6cbe80eb85 completed May 17, 2026, 3:45 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:57 a.m.