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]
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.