Triple

T1785153
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Otis Elevator Company E39374 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Elisha Otis
Elisha Otis was an American inventor best known for developing a safety elevator that made modern skyscrapers practical and led to the creation of the Otis Elevator Company.
E198178 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: Elisha Otis | Statement: [Otis Elevator Company, foundedBy, Elisha Otis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Elisha Otis
Context triple: [Otis Elevator Company, foundedBy, Elisha Otis]
  • A. George Washington Gale Ferris Jr.
    George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. was an American civil engineer best known for inventing and designing the original Ferris wheel for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
  • B. Elihu Thomson
    Elihu Thomson was a pioneering electrical engineer and inventor whose work in power systems and lighting helped shape the early electrical industry and led to the formation of General Electric.
  • C. Leon Moisseiff
    Leon Moisseiff was a prominent early 20th-century civil engineer known for pioneering deflection theory in suspension bridge design and contributing to several major American bridges.
  • D. Arthur Judson
    Arthur Judson was an influential American music manager and impresario who co-founded the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) and played a major role in shaping early 20th-century broadcasting and classical music management.
  • E. William Arrol
    William Arrol was a prominent Scottish civil engineer and bridge builder renowned for leading the construction of major late-19th-century steel structures, including iconic railway bridges in the United Kingdom.
  • 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: Elisha Otis
Triple: [Otis Elevator Company, foundedBy, Elisha Otis]
Generated description
Elisha Otis was an American inventor best known for developing a safety elevator that made modern skyscrapers practical and led to the creation of the Otis Elevator Company.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Elisha Otis
Target entity description: Elisha Otis was an American inventor best known for developing a safety elevator that made modern skyscrapers practical and led to the creation of the Otis Elevator Company.
  • A. George Washington Gale Ferris Jr.
    George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. was an American civil engineer best known for inventing and designing the original Ferris wheel for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
  • B. Elihu Thomson
    Elihu Thomson was a pioneering electrical engineer and inventor whose work in power systems and lighting helped shape the early electrical industry and led to the formation of General Electric.
  • C. Leon Moisseiff
    Leon Moisseiff was a prominent early 20th-century civil engineer known for pioneering deflection theory in suspension bridge design and contributing to several major American bridges.
  • D. Arthur Judson
    Arthur Judson was an influential American music manager and impresario who co-founded the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) and played a major role in shaping early 20th-century broadcasting and classical music management.
  • E. William Arrol
    William Arrol was a prominent Scottish civil engineer and bridge builder renowned for leading the construction of major late-19th-century steel structures, including iconic railway bridges in the United Kingdom.
  • 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_69a88630519c8190a17addd83c4a3ef4 completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa650d304481908ad9bff3eadf7da6 completed March 6, 2026, 5:24 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ada9a476448190b072361fe4b41537 completed March 8, 2026, 4:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adab05cf6c81909f4713664f508ad9 completed March 8, 2026, 4:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adaeb20390819098bad8951ec00d00 completed March 8, 2026, 5:15 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:31 p.m.