Triple
T140601
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Stanford University |
E2841
|
entity |
| Predicate | founders |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Leland Stanford
Leland Stanford was an American industrialist, railroad magnate, and politician who served as governor of California and co-founded Stanford University.
|
E31248
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (5 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: Leland Stanford | Statement: [Stanford University, founders, Leland Stanford]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Leland Stanford Context triple: [Stanford University, founders, Leland Stanford]
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A.
Andrew Smith Hallidie
Andrew Smith Hallidie was a 19th-century engineer and inventor credited with pioneering San Francisco’s cable car system and advancing wire rope technology.
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B.
William Newsom
William Newsom was an American state appeals court judge and prominent San Francisco attorney known as the father of California Governor Gavin Newsom and for his long-standing connections to influential political and business circles.
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C.
James J. Hill
James J. Hill was a prominent American railroad magnate best known for building and expanding the Great Northern Railway during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
John Sutter
John Sutter was a Swiss-born pioneer and landowner in Mexican and early American California, best known for establishing the agricultural empire around which Sacramento developed and for his connection to the California Gold Rush.
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E.
Thomas M. Carnegie
Thomas M. Carnegie was an American industrialist and the younger brother and business partner of Andrew Carnegie, who played a key role in building the Carnegie steel empire in the late 19th century.
- 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: Leland Stanford Triple: [Stanford University, founders, Leland Stanford]
Generated description
Leland Stanford was an American industrialist, railroad magnate, and politician who served as governor of California and co-founded Stanford University.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Leland Stanford Target entity description: Leland Stanford was an American industrialist, railroad magnate, and politician who served as governor of California and co-founded Stanford University.
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A.
Andrew Smith Hallidie
Andrew Smith Hallidie was a 19th-century engineer and inventor credited with pioneering San Francisco’s cable car system and advancing wire rope technology.
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B.
William Newsom
William Newsom was an American state appeals court judge and prominent San Francisco attorney known as the father of California Governor Gavin Newsom and for his long-standing connections to influential political and business circles.
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C.
James J. Hill
James J. Hill was a prominent American railroad magnate best known for building and expanding the Great Northern Railway during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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D.
John Sutter
John Sutter was a Swiss-born pioneer and landowner in Mexican and early American California, best known for establishing the agricultural empire around which Sacramento developed and for his connection to the California Gold Rush.
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E.
Thomas M. Carnegie
Thomas M. Carnegie was an American industrialist and the younger brother and business partner of Andrew Carnegie, who played a key role in building the Carnegie steel empire in the late 19th century.
- F. None of above. chosen
PD
Predicate disambiguation
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: founders Context triple: [Stanford University, founders, Leland Stanford]
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A.
founder
chosen
Indicates that an entity established, created, or started another entity such as an organization, institution, or company.
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B.
foundedWith
Indicates that an entity was established or created together with another entity, typically as co-founders or jointly initiated partners.
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C.
cofounderOf
Indicates that a person jointly established or created an organization, company, or project with one or more other founders.
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D.
foundedFor
Indicates that an entity was established or created specifically to serve, support, or benefit another entity or purpose.
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E.
foundedAs
Indicates the original name or form under which an organization, institution, or entity was first established.
- F. None of above.
Provenance (6 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_69a2521e35c08190b28e5c9f1e3c9b59 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 2:25 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a257c7e79c8190b3e5a2983035a972 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 2:49 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a3695789388190bb91b6247d16c2bc |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 10:16 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69a369d2b56c8190a6381b2da3e42e18 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 10:18 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69a36a9f31408190b8f0e8273ff3a298 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 10:22 p.m. |
| PD | Predicate disambiguation | batch_69a2565426c08190aab68e34a6a2d60e |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 2:43 a.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:31 a.m.