Triple

T1776258
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Colgate E38985 entity
Predicate hasChild P369 FINISHED
Object Samuel Colgate
Samuel Colgate was an American businessman and philanthropist who expanded his father William Colgate’s soap and personal care company into a major industrial enterprise.
E38985 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: Samuel Colgate | Statement: [William Colgate, hasChild, Samuel Colgate]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Colgate
Context triple: [William Colgate, hasChild, Samuel Colgate]
  • A. William Colgate
    William Colgate was a 19th-century English-American soap and candle manufacturer whose business ventures laid the foundation for what became the global consumer products company Colgate-Palmolive.
  • B. Ogden L. Mills
    Ogden L. Mills was an American lawyer, businessman, and Republican politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury during the early years of the Great Depression.
  • C. Edward Mead Johnson
    Edward Mead Johnson was an American businessman and co-founder of the healthcare company Johnson & Johnson, later known for establishing a major infant nutrition business.
  • D. Pierre S. du Pont
    Pierre S. du Pont was an American industrialist and executive who led the DuPont Company and General Motors, playing a major role in early 20th-century corporate and architectural development.
  • E. Abraham Overholt
    Abraham Overholt was a 19th-century American distiller and businessman best known for founding the Old Overholt rye whiskey brand and developing the industrial village at West Overton, Pennsylvania.
  • 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: Samuel Colgate
Triple: [William Colgate, hasChild, Samuel Colgate]
Generated description
Samuel Colgate was an American businessman and philanthropist who expanded his father William Colgate’s soap and personal care company into a major industrial enterprise.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Colgate
Target entity description: Samuel Colgate was an American businessman and philanthropist who expanded his father William Colgate’s soap and personal care company into a major industrial enterprise.
  • A. William Colgate chosen
    William Colgate was a 19th-century English-American soap and candle manufacturer whose business ventures laid the foundation for what became the global consumer products company Colgate-Palmolive.
  • B. Ogden L. Mills
    Ogden L. Mills was an American lawyer, businessman, and Republican politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury during the early years of the Great Depression.
  • C. Edward Mead Johnson
    Edward Mead Johnson was an American businessman and co-founder of the healthcare company Johnson & Johnson, later known for establishing a major infant nutrition business.
  • D. Pierre S. du Pont
    Pierre S. du Pont was an American industrialist and executive who led the DuPont Company and General Motors, playing a major role in early 20th-century corporate and architectural development.
  • E. Abraham Overholt
    Abraham Overholt was a 19th-century American distiller and businessman best known for founding the Old Overholt rye whiskey brand and developing the industrial village at West Overton, Pennsylvania.
  • F. None of above.

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_69a8862e61708190af97b9838cc3f5de completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa64b839608190b32bc041267458d5 completed March 6, 2026, 5:23 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ada99a81c08190b602858708263193 completed March 8, 2026, 4:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adab03a5448190b42966adcd8afbde completed March 8, 2026, 4:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adaeabff6c8190b19bc6478a28641c completed March 8, 2026, 5:15 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:31 p.m.