Triple

T20759989
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Revolution (newspaper) E510951 entity
Predicate notableContributor P304 FINISHED
Object George Francis Train
George Francis Train was an eccentric 19th-century American entrepreneur, world traveler, and political activist known for his flamboyant personality and involvement in early feminist and reform movements.
E1447991 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: George Francis Train | Statement: [The Revolution (newspaper), notableContributor, George Francis Train]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Francis Train
Context triple: [The Revolution (newspaper), notableContributor, George Francis Train]
  • A. Frederic Gallatin Cammann
    Frederic Gallatin Cammann was an American businessman and socialite best known for his brief marriage to actress Elizabeth Montgomery.
  • B. Thomas Colbert
    Thomas Colbert is an American investigative journalist and documentary producer known for organizing a cold case team that challenged the FBI’s conclusions about the D.B. Cooper hijacking.
  • C. Thomas A. Scott
    Thomas A. Scott was a prominent 19th-century American railroad executive and businessman who played a key logistical role for the Union during the Civil War.
  • D. Lewis Tappan
    Lewis Tappan was a prominent 19th-century American abolitionist and businessman who played a key role in the anti-slavery movement and in supporting the legal defense of the Amistad captives.
  • E. Frederick H. Billings
    Frederick H. Billings was a 19th-century American lawyer, financier, and president of the Northern Pacific Railway, known for his role in railroad expansion and conservation efforts in the American West.
  • 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: George Francis Train
Triple: [The Revolution (newspaper), notableContributor, George Francis Train]
Generated description
George Francis Train was an eccentric 19th-century American entrepreneur, world traveler, and political activist known for his flamboyant personality and involvement in early feminist and reform movements.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Francis Train
Target entity description: George Francis Train was an eccentric 19th-century American entrepreneur, world traveler, and political activist known for his flamboyant personality and involvement in early feminist and reform movements.
  • A. Frederic Gallatin Cammann
    Frederic Gallatin Cammann was an American businessman and socialite best known for his brief marriage to actress Elizabeth Montgomery.
  • B. Thomas Colbert
    Thomas Colbert is an American investigative journalist and documentary producer known for organizing a cold case team that challenged the FBI’s conclusions about the D.B. Cooper hijacking.
  • C. Thomas A. Scott
    Thomas A. Scott was a prominent 19th-century American railroad executive and businessman who played a key logistical role for the Union during the Civil War.
  • D. Lewis Tappan
    Lewis Tappan was a prominent 19th-century American abolitionist and businessman who played a key role in the anti-slavery movement and in supporting the legal defense of the Amistad captives.
  • E. Frederick H. Billings
    Frederick H. Billings was a 19th-century American lawyer, financier, and president of the Northern Pacific Railway, known for his role in railroad expansion and conservation efforts in the American West.
  • 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_69e0b4c909ec8190b05987f1639513f6 completed April 16, 2026, 10:07 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6c24751688190829f9d836abfb606 completed April 21, 2026, 12:18 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a08e84cc14c8190a3a90116a657af27 completed May 16, 2026, 9:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a08e90ba0188190a4e744a79962bf2e completed May 16, 2026, 10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08e9799dbc8190b91f7c0ba0e1cfaf completed May 16, 2026, 10:02 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 12:35 p.m.