Triple

T110373
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Industrial Revolution E2234 entity
Predicate hasKeyFigure P810 FINISHED
Object Eli Whitney
Eli Whitney was an American inventor best known for creating the cotton gin, a device that revolutionized cotton processing and greatly impacted the Industrial Revolution.
E13890 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: Eli Whitney | Statement: [Industrial Revolution, hasKeyFigure, Eli Whitney]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Eli Whitney
Context triple: [Industrial Revolution, hasKeyFigure, Eli Whitney]
  • A. Samuel Crompton
    Samuel Crompton was an English inventor best known for creating the spinning mule, a pivotal textile machine that greatly advanced cotton spinning during the Industrial Revolution.
  • B. Richard Arkwright
    Richard Arkwright was an English inventor and entrepreneur whose development of water-powered spinning machinery and factory-based textile production made him a pivotal figure in the early Industrial Revolution.
  • C. James Watt
    James Watt was an 18th-century Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements to the steam engine were crucial in driving the Industrial Revolution.
  • D. Thomas Alva Edison
    Thomas Alva Edison was a pioneering American inventor and businessman best known for developing the practical incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture camera.
  • E. William Barton Rogers
    William Barton Rogers was a 19th-century American geologist and educator best known for establishing the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and shaping its practical, science-focused educational philosophy.
  • 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: Eli Whitney
Triple: [Industrial Revolution, hasKeyFigure, Eli Whitney]
Generated description
Eli Whitney was an American inventor best known for creating the cotton gin, a device that revolutionized cotton processing and greatly impacted the Industrial Revolution.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Eli Whitney
Target entity description: Eli Whitney was an American inventor best known for creating the cotton gin, a device that revolutionized cotton processing and greatly impacted the Industrial Revolution.
  • A. Samuel Crompton
    Samuel Crompton was an English inventor best known for creating the spinning mule, a pivotal textile machine that greatly advanced cotton spinning during the Industrial Revolution.
  • B. Richard Arkwright
    Richard Arkwright was an English inventor and entrepreneur whose development of water-powered spinning machinery and factory-based textile production made him a pivotal figure in the early Industrial Revolution.
  • C. James Watt
    James Watt was an 18th-century Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements to the steam engine were crucial in driving the Industrial Revolution.
  • D. Thomas Alva Edison
    Thomas Alva Edison was a pioneering American inventor and businessman best known for developing the practical incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture camera.
  • E. William Barton Rogers
    William Barton Rogers was a 19th-century American geologist and educator best known for establishing the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and shaping its practical, science-focused educational philosophy.
  • 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_69a24fcdaeb48190a2d796677e4b3281 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:15 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a256ce54b48190a3337f5f45d82859 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:45 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a29e47972c819084658ada85db97d3 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 7:50 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a29f00339081909b40c022ce571458 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 7:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a29f8b5fc88190998b45cf16d89d77 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 7:55 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:20 a.m.