Triple

T2240492
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Harry Elkins Widener E49383 entity
Predicate hasRelative P367 FINISHED
Object George Dunton Widener
George Dunton Widener was a wealthy American businessman and prominent member of the Philadelphia Widener family who perished in the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912.
E246756 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 Dunton Widener | Statement: [Harry Elkins Widener, hasRelative, George Dunton Widener]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Dunton Widener
Context triple: [Harry Elkins Widener, hasRelative, George Dunton Widener]
  • A. Eleanor Elkins Widener
    Eleanor Elkins Widener was an American socialite and philanthropist best known for funding Harvard University's Widener Library in memory of her son who died in the Titanic disaster.
  • B. Andrew W. Mellon
    Andrew W. Mellon was an American financier, industrialist, and philanthropist who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and became a major patron of the arts.
  • C. Harry Elkins Widener
    Harry Elkins Widener was a wealthy young American book collector and Harvard alumnus who died in the sinking of the Titanic, in whose memory Harvard’s Widener Library was built.
  • D. Daniel Wadsworth
    Daniel Wadsworth was a prominent American art patron and philanthropist best known for founding the Wadsworth Atheneum, one of the first public art museums in the United States.
  • E. Elliott Cresson
    Elliott Cresson was a 19th-century American philanthropist and member of the American Philosophical Society known for endowing one of the earliest and most prestigious science and engineering awards in the United States.
  • 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 Dunton Widener
Triple: [Harry Elkins Widener, hasRelative, George Dunton Widener]
Generated description
George Dunton Widener was a wealthy American businessman and prominent member of the Philadelphia Widener family who perished in the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Dunton Widener
Target entity description: George Dunton Widener was a wealthy American businessman and prominent member of the Philadelphia Widener family who perished in the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912.
  • A. Eleanor Elkins Widener
    Eleanor Elkins Widener was an American socialite and philanthropist best known for funding Harvard University's Widener Library in memory of her son who died in the Titanic disaster.
  • B. Andrew W. Mellon
    Andrew W. Mellon was an American financier, industrialist, and philanthropist who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and became a major patron of the arts.
  • C. Harry Elkins Widener
    Harry Elkins Widener was a wealthy young American book collector and Harvard alumnus who died in the sinking of the Titanic, in whose memory Harvard’s Widener Library was built.
  • D. Daniel Wadsworth
    Daniel Wadsworth was a prominent American art patron and philanthropist best known for founding the Wadsworth Atheneum, one of the first public art museums in the United States.
  • E. Elliott Cresson
    Elliott Cresson was a 19th-century American philanthropist and member of the American Philosophical Society known for endowing one of the earliest and most prestigious science and engineering awards in the United States.
  • 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_69a88aa84bdc819086df50e9c20b301e completed March 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc0bccf688190bd10202a62fdf34e completed March 7, 2026, 6:07 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae6b0cb4f0819087061434d44dc3a3 completed March 9, 2026, 6:39 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae6b9edb688190a4e6e4a4ddf964f3 completed March 9, 2026, 6:41 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae6bfbb6cc81909d647b3875450b4b completed March 9, 2026, 6:43 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:47 p.m.