Triple

T1090086
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cornelius Vanderbilt E24141 entity
Predicate businessRival P16079 FINISHED
Object James Fisk Jr.
James Fisk Jr. was a flamboyant 19th-century American financier and stockbroker notorious for his speculative schemes and involvement in the 1869 "Black Friday" gold market scandal.
E146249 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: James Fisk Jr. | Statement: [Cornelius Vanderbilt, businessRival, James Fisk Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Fisk Jr.
Context triple: [Cornelius Vanderbilt, businessRival, James Fisk Jr.]
  • A. Jay Gould
    Jay Gould was a powerful and controversial 19th-century American railroad magnate and financier known for his ruthless business tactics and major influence during the Gilded Age.
  • B. Samuel Insull
    Samuel Insull was a British-born American business magnate and utilities executive who built a vast Midwestern electric power empire and helped shape the modern electrical infrastructure and public utility regulation in the United States.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Henry Clay Frick
    Henry Clay Frick was an American industrialist and financier best known for his leadership in the steel and coke industries and his role in the development of Carnegie Steel.
  • E. Charles T. Yerkes
    Charles T. Yerkes was a wealthy American financier and streetcar magnate of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for funding major astronomical and urban transit projects.
  • 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: James Fisk Jr.
Triple: [Cornelius Vanderbilt, businessRival, James Fisk Jr.]
Generated description
James Fisk Jr. was a flamboyant 19th-century American financier and stockbroker notorious for his speculative schemes and involvement in the 1869 "Black Friday" gold market scandal.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Fisk Jr.
Target entity description: James Fisk Jr. was a flamboyant 19th-century American financier and stockbroker notorious for his speculative schemes and involvement in the 1869 "Black Friday" gold market scandal.
  • A. Jay Gould
    Jay Gould was a powerful and controversial 19th-century American railroad magnate and financier known for his ruthless business tactics and major influence during the Gilded Age.
  • B. Samuel Insull
    Samuel Insull was a British-born American business magnate and utilities executive who built a vast Midwestern electric power empire and helped shape the modern electrical infrastructure and public utility regulation in the United States.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Henry Clay Frick
    Henry Clay Frick was an American industrialist and financier best known for his leadership in the steel and coke industries and his role in the development of Carnegie Steel.
  • E. Charles T. Yerkes
    Charles T. Yerkes was a wealthy American financier and streetcar magnate of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, best known for funding major astronomical and urban transit projects.
  • 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_69a49404428c819092dcc9632f5f7b8b completed March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bb74b0908190be51a7141e661d3e completed March 1, 2026, 10:19 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aca2dede4c81909ec2eed93a438049 completed March 7, 2026, 10:12 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aca3a539848190a17e8bd578bc237a completed March 7, 2026, 10:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aca4158bbc8190bd1f5799715e3e4c completed March 7, 2026, 10:17 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:42 p.m.