Triple

T11242299
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Shaughnessy E266099 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Thomas Shaughnessy
Thomas Shaughnessy was a prominent early 20th-century railway executive best known for leading and expanding the Canadian Pacific Railway.
E913502 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: Thomas Shaughnessy | Statement: [Shaughnessy, namedAfter, Thomas Shaughnessy]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Shaughnessy
Context triple: [Shaughnessy, namedAfter, Thomas Shaughnessy]
  • A. Charles Shaughnessy
    Charles Shaughnessy is a British actor best known for his role as Maxwell Sheffield on the television sitcom "The Nanny."
  • B. Edwin Alderson
    Edwin Alderson was a British Army officer best known for leading Canadian forces during the early years of the First World War, including at the Second Battle of Ypres.
  • C. Francis Lathrop
    Francis Lathrop was an American artist and illustrator of the late 19th century, known for his stained glass, mural work, and book illustrations.
  • D. Frederick T. Gates
    Frederick T. Gates was an American Baptist minister and influential philanthropic advisor to John D. Rockefeller who helped shape and direct major charitable initiatives in education, public health, and scientific research.
  • E. Elihu Root
    Elihu Root was an American lawyer, statesman, and Nobel Peace Prize–winning former U.S. Secretary of State and War known for his influential role in shaping early 20th-century American foreign policy.
  • 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: Thomas Shaughnessy
Triple: [Shaughnessy, namedAfter, Thomas Shaughnessy]
Generated description
Thomas Shaughnessy was a prominent early 20th-century railway executive best known for leading and expanding the Canadian Pacific Railway.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Shaughnessy
Target entity description: Thomas Shaughnessy was a prominent early 20th-century railway executive best known for leading and expanding the Canadian Pacific Railway.
  • A. Charles Shaughnessy
    Charles Shaughnessy is a British actor best known for his role as Maxwell Sheffield on the television sitcom "The Nanny."
  • B. Edwin Alderson
    Edwin Alderson was a British Army officer best known for leading Canadian forces during the early years of the First World War, including at the Second Battle of Ypres.
  • C. Francis Lathrop
    Francis Lathrop was an American artist and illustrator of the late 19th century, known for his stained glass, mural work, and book illustrations.
  • D. Frederick T. Gates
    Frederick T. Gates was an American Baptist minister and influential philanthropic advisor to John D. Rockefeller who helped shape and direct major charitable initiatives in education, public health, and scientific research.
  • E. Elihu Root
    Elihu Root was an American lawyer, statesman, and Nobel Peace Prize–winning former U.S. Secretary of State and War known for his influential role in shaping early 20th-century American foreign policy.
  • 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_69d6aac656d48190b275efaa7d6074ee completed April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d7e91b0b808190bc38008bb344d180 completed April 9, 2026, 5:59 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e4ad849f70819098a7056fbc4831ff completed April 19, 2026, 10:25 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e4b12eee348190bee6c84587e4955d completed April 19, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e4be2bb8c88190a21773b0c43b6b99 completed April 19, 2026, 11:36 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:30 p.m.