Triple

T15310346
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Millikin University E366018 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object James Millikin
James Millikin was an American businessman and philanthropist best known for endowing and establishing Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois.
E1220197 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 Millikin | Statement: [Millikin University, foundedBy, James Millikin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Millikin
Context triple: [Millikin University, foundedBy, James Millikin]
  • A. Elbert A. Smith
    Elbert A. Smith was an American religious leader and writer who served as a prominent apostle and later Presiding Patriarch in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (now Community of Christ).
  • B. Doane Robinson
    Doane Robinson was a South Dakota historian who first conceived the idea of carving monumental figures into the Black Hills, a vision that led to the creation of Mount Rushmore.
  • C. Walter S. Gurnee
    Walter S. Gurnee was a 19th-century American businessman and politician who served as mayor of Chicago and became the namesake of Gurnee, Illinois.
  • D. G. W. Bailey
    G. W. Bailey is an American character actor best known for his gruff, comedic roles in film and television, including prominent parts in the Police Academy series and the crime drama The Closer.
  • E. James Ewing
    James Ewing was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from Pennsylvania who served as a militia general and later as the state's vice president (lieutenant governor).
  • 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 Millikin
Triple: [Millikin University, foundedBy, James Millikin]
Generated description
James Millikin was an American businessman and philanthropist best known for endowing and establishing Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Millikin
Target entity description: James Millikin was an American businessman and philanthropist best known for endowing and establishing Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois.
  • A. Elbert A. Smith
    Elbert A. Smith was an American religious leader and writer who served as a prominent apostle and later Presiding Patriarch in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (now Community of Christ).
  • B. Doane Robinson
    Doane Robinson was a South Dakota historian who first conceived the idea of carving monumental figures into the Black Hills, a vision that led to the creation of Mount Rushmore.
  • C. Walter S. Gurnee
    Walter S. Gurnee was a 19th-century American businessman and politician who served as mayor of Chicago and became the namesake of Gurnee, Illinois.
  • D. G. W. Bailey
    G. W. Bailey is an American character actor best known for his gruff, comedic roles in film and television, including prominent parts in the Police Academy series and the crime drama The Closer.
  • E. James Ewing
    James Ewing was an American Revolutionary War officer and political leader from Pennsylvania who served as a militia general and later as the state's vice president (lieutenant governor).
  • 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_69d85a113ee881908e297a1d38dd79fa completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e03cd176708190b0f6ba17aed92f8e completed April 16, 2026, 1:35 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0067948b308190a434cdf1d45ebef4 completed May 10, 2026, 11:10 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00686f87408190b7d8a41cd54735d8 completed May 10, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a006b6edd7081908730363b267253dd completed May 10, 2026, 11:26 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:16 a.m.