Triple

T2032939
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Photophone E44558 entity
Predicate inventedBy P632 FINISHED
Object Charles Sumner Tainter
Charles Sumner Tainter was an American inventor and scientist best known for his pioneering work in sound and communication technologies during the late 19th century.
E346803 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 Sumner Tainter | Statement: [Photophone, inventedBy, Charles Sumner Tainter]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Sumner Tainter
Context triple: [Photophone, inventedBy, Charles Sumner Tainter]
  • A. Nathaniel P. Davis
    Nathaniel P. Davis was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Hungary.
  • B. William Starr Miller
    William Starr Miller was a prominent early 20th-century American industrialist and real estate developer whose Fifth Avenue mansion later became the home of the Neue Galerie New York.
  • C. Thomas L. Kane
    Thomas L. Kane was a 19th-century American lawyer, abolitionist, and advocate for the Latter-day Saints who later became a Union Army officer during the Civil War.
  • D. C. O. Sanford
    C. O. Sanford was a notable figure after whom the city of Sanford, North Carolina, was named, likely due to his influence or prominence in the region’s history.
  • E. John A. Wilson
    John A. Wilson was a prominent Washington, D.C. politician and public servant, notably serving as chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia.
  • 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 Sumner Tainter
Triple: [Photophone, inventedBy, Charles Sumner Tainter]
Generated description
Charles Sumner Tainter was an American inventor and scientist best known for his pioneering work in sound and communication technologies during the late 19th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Sumner Tainter
Target entity description: Charles Sumner Tainter was an American inventor and scientist best known for his pioneering work in sound and communication technologies during the late 19th century.
  • A. Nathaniel P. Davis
    Nathaniel P. Davis was an American diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Hungary.
  • B. William Starr Miller
    William Starr Miller was a prominent early 20th-century American industrialist and real estate developer whose Fifth Avenue mansion later became the home of the Neue Galerie New York.
  • C. Thomas L. Kane
    Thomas L. Kane was a 19th-century American lawyer, abolitionist, and advocate for the Latter-day Saints who later became a Union Army officer during the Civil War.
  • D. C. O. Sanford
    C. O. Sanford was a notable figure after whom the city of Sanford, North Carolina, was named, likely due to his influence or prominence in the region’s history.
  • E. John A. Wilson
    John A. Wilson was a prominent Washington, D.C. politician and public servant, notably serving as chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia.
  • 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_69a889144f2481909932f0746a93023d completed March 4, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb93255248190bd47a54a7b3c7447 completed March 7, 2026, 5:35 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b2f39ad7488190a7604a113c2e2bb3 completed March 12, 2026, 5:10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b2ff426a4c8190a75f6718c25ed15e completed March 12, 2026, 6 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b313b260348190aa3360a76327e636 completed March 12, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:39 p.m.