Triple

T2240496
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Harry Elkins Widener E49383 entity
Predicate grandfather P979 FINISHED
Object Peter Arrell Browne Widener
Peter Arrell Browne Widener was a prominent American businessman and art collector who amassed a fortune in streetcar and meatpacking enterprises and became one of the wealthiest men of the Gilded Age.
E252197 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: Peter Arrell Browne Widener | Statement: [Harry Elkins Widener, grandfather, Peter Arrell Browne Widener]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Peter Arrell Browne Widener
Context triple: [Harry Elkins Widener, grandfather, Peter Arrell Browne Widener]
  • A. 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.
  • 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. Richard B. Mellon
    Richard B. Mellon was an American banker, industrialist, and philanthropist from the prominent Mellon family who played a major role in early 20th-century finance and industry.
  • D. Peter G. Peterson
    Peter G. Peterson was an American businessman, investment banker, and former U.S. Secretary of Commerce best known as a co-founder of the private equity firm Blackstone and a prominent advocate for fiscal responsibility.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Peter Arrell Browne Widener
Triple: [Harry Elkins Widener, grandfather, Peter Arrell Browne Widener]
Generated description
Peter Arrell Browne Widener was a prominent American businessman and art collector who amassed a fortune in streetcar and meatpacking enterprises and became one of the wealthiest men of the Gilded Age.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Peter Arrell Browne Widener
Target entity description: Peter Arrell Browne Widener was a prominent American businessman and art collector who amassed a fortune in streetcar and meatpacking enterprises and became one of the wealthiest men of the Gilded Age.
  • A. 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.
  • 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. Richard B. Mellon
    Richard B. Mellon was an American banker, industrialist, and philanthropist from the prominent Mellon family who played a major role in early 20th-century finance and industry.
  • D. Peter G. Peterson
    Peter G. Peterson was an American businessman, investment banker, and former U.S. Secretary of Commerce best known as a co-founder of the private equity firm Blackstone and a prominent advocate for fiscal responsibility.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69ae7f0361d08190922d21c89d32c869 completed March 9, 2026, 8:04 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae7fc194488190bb71124f0225a521 completed March 9, 2026, 8:07 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae802d03648190a71303daf20e6162 completed March 9, 2026, 8:09 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:47 p.m.