Triple
T2272169
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | James Buchanan Duke |
E50683
|
entity |
| Predicate | parent |
P120
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Washington Duke
Washington Duke was a 19th-century American tobacco industrialist and philanthropist whose family fortune helped found and shape Duke University.
|
E254790
|
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: Washington Duke | Statement: [James Buchanan Duke, parent, Washington Duke]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Washington Duke Context triple: [James Buchanan Duke, parent, Washington Duke]
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A.
Benjamin Newton Duke
Benjamin Newton Duke was an American industrialist and philanthropist from the prominent Duke family who helped build a tobacco and textile empire and endowed major educational and charitable institutions, including what became Duke University.
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B.
James Buchanan Duke
James Buchanan Duke was an American industrialist and philanthropist whose fortune from tobacco and electric power helped establish and endow Duke University.
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C.
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.
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D.
John Byron Diman
John Byron Diman was an American Episcopal clergyman and educator best known for establishing several prominent New England preparatory schools in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
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.
- 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: Washington Duke Triple: [James Buchanan Duke, parent, Washington Duke]
Generated description
Washington Duke was a 19th-century American tobacco industrialist and philanthropist whose family fortune helped found and shape Duke University.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Washington Duke Target entity description: Washington Duke was a 19th-century American tobacco industrialist and philanthropist whose family fortune helped found and shape Duke University.
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A.
Benjamin Newton Duke
Benjamin Newton Duke was an American industrialist and philanthropist from the prominent Duke family who helped build a tobacco and textile empire and endowed major educational and charitable institutions, including what became Duke University.
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B.
James Buchanan Duke
James Buchanan Duke was an American industrialist and philanthropist whose fortune from tobacco and electric power helped establish and endow Duke University.
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C.
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.
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D.
John Byron Diman
John Byron Diman was an American Episcopal clergyman and educator best known for establishing several prominent New England preparatory schools in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
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.
- 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_69a88b05910c8190a9a2b1ff230c85f9 |
completed | March 4, 2026, 7:41 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abc1e872448190a1d6c6071b2a294b |
completed | March 7, 2026, 6:12 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ae894a20e0819097f08959f7a062ef |
completed | March 9, 2026, 8:48 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69ae89e2efd48190a2f0a4702dcbc081 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 8:50 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69ae8a7726dc8190a18f7f1e1609253a |
completed | March 9, 2026, 8:53 a.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:48 p.m.