Triple

T20250980
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Colgan Air E498553 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Charles J. Colgan
Charles J. Colgan was an American businessman and politician best known as the co-founder of regional airline Colgan Air and as a long-serving member of the Virginia State Senate.
E1432601 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: Charles J. Colgan | Statement: [Colgan Air, foundedBy, Charles J. Colgan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles J. Colgan
Context triple: [Colgan Air, foundedBy, Charles J. Colgan]
  • A. John M. Goggin
    John M. Goggin was an influential American archaeologist and anthropologist known for his pioneering research on the pre-Columbian cultures of Florida and the Caribbean.
  • B. Charles E. Kearney
    Charles E. Kearney was a 19th-century American railroad executive and civic leader after whom the city of Kearney, Missouri, is named.
  • C. Frederick H. Boland
    Frederick H. Boland was an Irish diplomat who served as Ireland’s first ambassador to the United Kingdom and later became a prominent figure at the United Nations.
  • D. William A. O'Kelly
    William A. O'Kelly was a significant figure in the history of North Carolina A&T State University, honored for his contributions by having the university’s O'Kelly–Riddick Stadium named after him.
  • E. Thomas B. Finan
    Thomas B. Finan was an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as Maryland’s Attorney General in the mid-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: Charles J. Colgan
Triple: [Colgan Air, foundedBy, Charles J. Colgan]
Generated description
Charles J. Colgan was an American businessman and politician best known as the co-founder of regional airline Colgan Air and as a long-serving member of the Virginia State Senate.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles J. Colgan
Target entity description: Charles J. Colgan was an American businessman and politician best known as the co-founder of regional airline Colgan Air and as a long-serving member of the Virginia State Senate.
  • A. John M. Goggin
    John M. Goggin was an influential American archaeologist and anthropologist known for his pioneering research on the pre-Columbian cultures of Florida and the Caribbean.
  • B. Charles E. Kearney
    Charles E. Kearney was a 19th-century American railroad executive and civic leader after whom the city of Kearney, Missouri, is named.
  • C. Frederick H. Boland
    Frederick H. Boland was an Irish diplomat who served as Ireland’s first ambassador to the United Kingdom and later became a prominent figure at the United Nations.
  • D. William A. O'Kelly
    William A. O'Kelly was a significant figure in the history of North Carolina A&T State University, honored for his contributions by having the university’s O'Kelly–Riddick Stadium named after him.
  • E. Thomas B. Finan
    Thomas B. Finan was an American lawyer and Democratic politician who served as Maryland’s Attorney General in the mid-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_69da6274c58c81909c646eabed6f4f30 completed April 11, 2026, 3:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e673a79a208190a5a7c0f6515bc393 completed April 20, 2026, 6:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a088afcd0c881908dfe3294d4620a54 completed May 16, 2026, 3:19 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a088c2bb7c48190b5d6d6d4cddce2c5 completed May 16, 2026, 3:24 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a088c8e936c8190897293a0edcdfef9 completed May 16, 2026, 3:26 p.m.
Created at: April 11, 2026, 11:41 p.m.