Triple

T21215950
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Samuel Slater E522835 entity
Predicate businessPartner P282 FINISHED
Object William Almy
William Almy was an American textile entrepreneur and early industrialist who partnered with Samuel Slater in pioneering the U.S. cotton textile industry in the late 18th century.
E1471523 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: William Almy | Statement: [Samuel Slater, businessPartner, William Almy]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Almy
Context triple: [Samuel Slater, businessPartner, William Almy]
  • A. William P. Wood
    William P. Wood is an American author best known for writing crime and legal thrillers, including the novel that inspired the film "Rampage."
  • B. John H. Dimond
    John H. Dimond was a prominent Alaskan jurist and early state leader who played a key role in shaping Alaska’s legal and constitutional foundations.
  • C. Samuel F. Hersey
    Samuel F. Hersey was a 19th-century American lumber baron, philanthropist, and politician from Maine who served in the U.S. House of Representatives.
  • D. Joseph Holbrook
    Joseph Holbrook is a relatively obscure individual whose name is notably associated with the surname Holbrook but who has no widely documented public prominence.
  • E. Horace W. Peaslee
    Horace W. Peaslee was an American architect best known for designing prominent public monuments and civic buildings in the early to mid-20th century.
  • 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: William Almy
Triple: [Samuel Slater, businessPartner, William Almy]
Generated description
William Almy was an American textile entrepreneur and early industrialist who partnered with Samuel Slater in pioneering the U.S. cotton textile industry in the late 18th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Almy
Target entity description: William Almy was an American textile entrepreneur and early industrialist who partnered with Samuel Slater in pioneering the U.S. cotton textile industry in the late 18th century.
  • A. William P. Wood
    William P. Wood is an American author best known for writing crime and legal thrillers, including the novel that inspired the film "Rampage."
  • B. John H. Dimond
    John H. Dimond was a prominent Alaskan jurist and early state leader who played a key role in shaping Alaska’s legal and constitutional foundations.
  • C. Samuel F. Hersey
    Samuel F. Hersey was a 19th-century American lumber baron, philanthropist, and politician from Maine who served in the U.S. House of Representatives.
  • D. Joseph Holbrook
    Joseph Holbrook is a relatively obscure individual whose name is notably associated with the surname Holbrook but who has no widely documented public prominence.
  • E. Horace W. Peaslee
    Horace W. Peaslee was an American architect best known for designing prominent public monuments and civic buildings in the early to mid-20th century.
  • 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_69e0b511ed84819099b449b4a111085c completed April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e73473870c8190a0f41f9c85567aa7 completed April 21, 2026, 8:25 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a097ed8bd0881909777475f8930b590 completed May 17, 2026, 8:39 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a097f61ad008190bcbf64326356b857 completed May 17, 2026, 8:42 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0980a602908190a2cbcbae9b8d8bf2 completed May 17, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 3:40 p.m.