Triple

T16599513
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Century Foundation E403295 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Edward A. Filene
Edward A. Filene was an American businessman, progressive reformer, and philanthropist best known for pioneering credit unions and supporting social and economic policy research.
E1222626 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: Edward A. Filene | Statement: [The Century Foundation, foundedBy, Edward A. Filene]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward A. Filene
Context triple: [The Century Foundation, foundedBy, Edward A. Filene]
  • A. William Filene
    William Filene was an American merchant best known for establishing the Filene’s department store, a pioneering force in modern retailing.
  • B. John J. Raskob
    John J. Raskob was an American businessman and financier best known for masterminding and financing the construction of New York City's Empire State Building.
  • C. Joseph B. Bloomingdale
    Joseph B. Bloomingdale was an American businessman best known as a co-founder of the Bloomingdale's department store.
  • D. Lincoln Filene
    Lincoln Filene was an American businessman and philanthropist best known for helping develop the Filene’s department store chain and for his significant contributions to civic and educational causes.
  • E. John Albert Macy
    John Albert Macy was an American writer, editor, and literary critic best known for his work with Helen Keller and his marriage to her teacher, Annie Sullivan.
  • 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: Edward A. Filene
Triple: [The Century Foundation, foundedBy, Edward A. Filene]
Generated description
Edward A. Filene was an American businessman, progressive reformer, and philanthropist best known for pioneering credit unions and supporting social and economic policy research.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward A. Filene
Target entity description: Edward A. Filene was an American businessman, progressive reformer, and philanthropist best known for pioneering credit unions and supporting social and economic policy research.
  • A. William Filene
    William Filene was an American merchant best known for establishing the Filene’s department store, a pioneering force in modern retailing.
  • B. John J. Raskob
    John J. Raskob was an American businessman and financier best known for masterminding and financing the construction of New York City's Empire State Building.
  • C. Joseph B. Bloomingdale
    Joseph B. Bloomingdale was an American businessman best known as a co-founder of the Bloomingdale's department store.
  • D. Lincoln Filene
    Lincoln Filene was an American businessman and philanthropist best known for helping develop the Filene’s department store chain and for his significant contributions to civic and educational causes.
  • E. John Albert Macy
    John Albert Macy was an American writer, editor, and literary critic best known for his work with Helen Keller and his marriage to her teacher, Annie Sullivan.
  • 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_69d883880d0c81908b5fcd454e767b60 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e35d74738c81909711654cf38af150 completed April 18, 2026, 10:31 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0075a226788190bfad73ffb6b32ec4 completed May 10, 2026, 12:10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00762ce9a881908b41b610c3f14780 completed May 10, 2026, 12:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a007728680c819082a3bd7e84edb2b0 completed May 10, 2026, 12:16 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:16 a.m.