Triple

T20629929
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sedalia, Missouri E506926 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object George R. Smith
George R. Smith was a 19th-century American businessman and civic leader best known for establishing the city of Sedalia, Missouri, as a regional railroad and commercial hub.
 E1455390 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: George R. Smith | Statement: [Sedalia, Missouri, foundedBy, George R. Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: George R. Smith
Context triple: [Sedalia, Missouri, foundedBy, George R. Smith]
  • A. Peter H. Smith
    Peter H. Smith is a planetary scientist best known for leading NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander mission as its principal investigator.
  • B. Richard D. Smith
    Richard D. Smith is a theatrical producer known for his work on the hit Broadway musical "The Producers."
  • C. Richard W. Smith
    Richard W. Smith is a member of the Smith family best known as a son of FedEx founder Frederick W. Smith.
  • D. Roland C. Nickerson
    Roland C. Nickerson was a prominent landowner and conservation-minded figure on Cape Cod whose estate later became the basis for Nickerson State Park in Massachusetts.
  • E. J. Robert Spencer
    J. Robert Spencer is an American stage actor and singer best known for his Tony-nominated performance in the Broadway musical "Next to Normal."
  • 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: George R. Smith
Triple: [Sedalia, Missouri, foundedBy, George R. Smith]
Generated description
George R. Smith was a 19th-century American businessman and civic leader best known for establishing the city of Sedalia, Missouri, as a regional railroad and commercial hub.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: George R. Smith
Target entity description: George R. Smith was a 19th-century American businessman and civic leader best known for establishing the city of Sedalia, Missouri, as a regional railroad and commercial hub.
  • A. Peter H. Smith
    Peter H. Smith is a planetary scientist best known for leading NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander mission as its principal investigator.
  • B. Richard D. Smith
    Richard D. Smith is a theatrical producer known for his work on the hit Broadway musical "The Producers."
  • C. Richard W. Smith
    Richard W. Smith is a member of the Smith family best known as a son of FedEx founder Frederick W. Smith.
  • D. Roland C. Nickerson
    Roland C. Nickerson was a prominent landowner and conservation-minded figure on Cape Cod whose estate later became the basis for Nickerson State Park in Massachusetts.
  • E. J. Robert Spencer
    J. Robert Spencer is an American stage actor and singer best known for his Tony-nominated performance in the Broadway musical "Next to Normal."
  • 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_69e0b4bd4a0081908d4e97a590a33fb2 completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6ad09c71881909698d3c2576cc181 completed April 20, 2026, 10:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a091385d4288190b5722960e8f09381 completed May 17, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a09148d27b08190a03264ef9dfb2bfc completed May 17, 2026, 1:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0914f1925081909bce8ad0932c6722 completed May 17, 2026, 1:08 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:42 a.m.