Triple

T19211659
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cincinnati Bell E480369 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Charles Kilgour
Charles Kilgour was a 19th-century American businessman best known as a founder of the telecommunications company Cincinnati Bell.
E1364972 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: Charles Kilgour | Statement: [Cincinnati Bell, foundedBy, Charles Kilgour]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Kilgour
Context triple: [Cincinnati Bell, foundedBy, Charles Kilgour]
  • A. Fred Kilgour
    Fred Kilgour was an American librarian and information scientist best known for pioneering online library cataloging and founding the OCLC cooperative.
  • B. Lin McAdam
    Lin McAdam is the determined and skilled gunslinger protagonist of the classic 1950 Western film "Winchester '73," portrayed by James Stewart.
  • C. Donald Meek
    Donald Meek was a Scottish-born American character actor known for his distinctive, mild-mannered roles in numerous Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
  • D. Thomas MacKay
    Thomas MacKay is a mountaineer known for completing the first recorded ascent of the peak Dom in the Swiss Alps.
  • E. Peter Galbraith
    Peter Galbraith is an American diplomat, author, and former U.S. ambassador to Croatia known for his work on international negotiations and post-conflict governance.
  • 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: Charles Kilgour
Triple: [Cincinnati Bell, foundedBy, Charles Kilgour]
Generated description
Charles Kilgour was a 19th-century American businessman best known as a founder of the telecommunications company Cincinnati Bell.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Kilgour
Target entity description: Charles Kilgour was a 19th-century American businessman best known as a founder of the telecommunications company Cincinnati Bell.
  • A. Fred Kilgour
    Fred Kilgour was an American librarian and information scientist best known for pioneering online library cataloging and founding the OCLC cooperative.
  • B. Lin McAdam
    Lin McAdam is the determined and skilled gunslinger protagonist of the classic 1950 Western film "Winchester '73," portrayed by James Stewart.
  • C. Donald Meek
    Donald Meek was a Scottish-born American character actor known for his distinctive, mild-mannered roles in numerous Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
  • D. Thomas MacKay
    Thomas MacKay is a mountaineer known for completing the first recorded ascent of the peak Dom in the Swiss Alps.
  • E. Peter Galbraith
    Peter Galbraith is an American diplomat, author, and former U.S. ambassador to Croatia known for his work on international negotiations and post-conflict governance.
  • 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_69d8e8cb8c348190b52075823911c869 completed April 10, 2026, 12:10 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5fa37fc7881908c53e332625dcdb4 completed April 20, 2026, 10:04 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0700e4e994819080d6767be5e974a3 completed May 15, 2026, 11:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a07029b7580819090126480b5b1213f completed May 15, 2026, 11:25 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a07030deef08190a582bb6f956ef381 completed May 15, 2026, 11:27 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:21 p.m.