Triple

T22686418
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Collins Whitney E560928 entity
Predicate child P120 FINISHED
Object William Payne Whitney
William Payne Whitney was an American businessman, thoroughbred racehorse owner, and prominent philanthropist from the influential Whitney family.
E1551021 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: William Payne Whitney | Statement: [William Collins Whitney, child, William Payne Whitney]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Payne Whitney
Context triple: [William Collins Whitney, child, William Payne Whitney]
  • A. Frank A. Vanderlip
    Frank A. Vanderlip was an influential American banker and president of the National City Bank of New York who played a key role in early 20th-century U.S. financial reform and the creation of the Federal Reserve System.
  • B. Walter Harriman
    Walter Harriman was a 19th-century American politician and Union Army officer whose legacy includes having the city of Harriman, Tennessee, named in his honor.
  • C. Henry I. Harriman
    Henry I. Harriman was an American businessman and public figure after whom the Harriman Dam in Vermont was named, reflecting his influence in regional development and infrastructure.
  • D. Thomas W. Lamont
    Thomas W. Lamont was a prominent American banker and philanthropist associated with J.P. Morgan & Co. whose support for education and the arts led to institutions such as Harvard’s Lamont Library bearing his name.
  • E. Thomas Mott Osborne
    Thomas Mott Osborne was an American prison reformer and progressive-era civic leader best known for pioneering humane, rehabilitative approaches to incarceration.
  • 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: William Payne Whitney
Triple: [William Collins Whitney, child, William Payne Whitney]
Generated description
William Payne Whitney was an American businessman, thoroughbred racehorse owner, and prominent philanthropist from the influential Whitney family.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Payne Whitney
Target entity description: William Payne Whitney was an American businessman, thoroughbred racehorse owner, and prominent philanthropist from the influential Whitney family.
  • A. Frank A. Vanderlip
    Frank A. Vanderlip was an influential American banker and president of the National City Bank of New York who played a key role in early 20th-century U.S. financial reform and the creation of the Federal Reserve System.
  • B. Walter Harriman
    Walter Harriman was a 19th-century American politician and Union Army officer whose legacy includes having the city of Harriman, Tennessee, named in his honor.
  • C. Henry I. Harriman
    Henry I. Harriman was an American businessman and public figure after whom the Harriman Dam in Vermont was named, reflecting his influence in regional development and infrastructure.
  • D. Thomas W. Lamont
    Thomas W. Lamont was a prominent American banker and philanthropist associated with J.P. Morgan & Co. whose support for education and the arts led to institutions such as Harvard’s Lamont Library bearing his name.
  • E. Thomas Mott Osborne
    Thomas Mott Osborne was an American prison reformer and progressive-era civic leader best known for pioneering humane, rehabilitative approaches to incarceration.
  • 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_69e2454d71b48190a1f80af9f82b6fcf completed April 17, 2026, 2:35 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f178649aac8190a9d41f5d82895bdf completed April 29, 2026, 3:17 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0b7ecafdb0819094d7f93add75b05f completed May 18, 2026, 9:04 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0b834f488c8190bee40bd1caea0e40 completed May 18, 2026, 9:23 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0b8717b65c819089d29c1802d1ed55 completed May 18, 2026, 9:39 p.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:12 p.m.