Triple

T2214229
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Durant Motors E50985 entity
Predicate keyPerson P256 FINISHED
Object Clifford Durant
Clifford Durant was an American automobile executive best known for founding and leading the Durant Motors car company in the early 20th century.
 E248232 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: Clifford Durant | Statement: [Durant Motors, keyPerson, Clifford Durant]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Clifford Durant
Context triple: [Durant Motors, keyPerson, Clifford Durant]
  • A. Sam Durant
    Sam Durant is an American multimedia artist known for his conceptually driven works that critically examine U.S. history, politics, and cultural memory.
  • B. Clifford Vaughan
    Clifford Vaughan was an American film composer and orchestrator active in early Hollywood, known for his work on classic genre films.
  • C. Alfred Drake
    Alfred Drake was a prominent American actor and baritone best known for originating leading roles in landmark mid-20th-century Broadway musicals.
  • D. Nathaniel Fisk
    Nathaniel Fisk is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Fisk, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly documented.
  • E. Dwight Merriman
    Dwight Merriman is an American entrepreneur and technologist best known as a co-founder of DoubleClick and later MongoDB.
  • 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: Clifford Durant
Triple: [Durant Motors, keyPerson, Clifford Durant]
Generated description
Clifford Durant was an American automobile executive best known for founding and leading the Durant Motors car company in the early 20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Clifford Durant
Target entity description: Clifford Durant was an American automobile executive best known for founding and leading the Durant Motors car company in the early 20th century.
  • A. Sam Durant
    Sam Durant is an American multimedia artist known for his conceptually driven works that critically examine U.S. history, politics, and cultural memory.
  • B. Clifford Vaughan
    Clifford Vaughan was an American film composer and orchestrator active in early Hollywood, known for his work on classic genre films.
  • C. Alfred Drake
    Alfred Drake was a prominent American actor and baritone best known for originating leading roles in landmark mid-20th-century Broadway musicals.
  • D. Nathaniel Fisk
    Nathaniel Fisk is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Fisk, though specific widely known achievements or roles are not clearly documented.
  • E. Dwight Merriman
    Dwight Merriman is an American entrepreneur and technologist best known as a co-founder of DoubleClick and later MongoDB.
  • 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_69a88b06709c8190978fb2418470d1b6 completed March 4, 2026, 7:41 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abbfef875c8190b642736b4cc11d4c completed March 7, 2026, 6:04 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae6afa4f4481908cd1559624805559 completed March 9, 2026, 6:38 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae6bbba3908190b24b6e29175cc449 completed March 9, 2026, 6:42 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae6c5f6364819085aed383ab0ff8c5 completed March 9, 2026, 6:44 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:46 p.m.