Triple

T22749933
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Stevens family E562665 entity
Predicate hasNotableMember P304 FINISHED
Object Robert Livingston Stevens
Robert Livingston Stevens was a 19th-century American engineer and inventor best known for pioneering innovations in railroad technology, including the flanged T-rail.
E1556299 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: Robert Livingston Stevens | Statement: [Stevens family, hasNotableMember, Robert Livingston Stevens]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Livingston Stevens
Context triple: [Stevens family, hasNotableMember, Robert Livingston Stevens]
  • A. Robert Livingston Stanton
    Robert Livingston Stanton was a 19th-century American Presbyterian minister, educator, and abolitionist who served as president of Miami University in Ohio.
  • B. John Stevens
    John Stevens is an American singer best known for his crooner-style performances as a young contestant on the third season of "American Idol."
  • C. George H. Stevenson
    George H. Stevenson was a local figure of historical significance in Washington State, likely an early settler or community leader after whom the community of Stevenson, Washington, was named.
  • D. Randolph B. Marcy
    Randolph B. Marcy was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and explorer known for his frontier surveys and influential guidebooks on overland travel in the American West.
  • E. Joseph Bancroft
    Joseph Bancroft was an Australian physician and parasitologist known for his pioneering work on filarial worms, including the species later named Wuchereria bancrofti in his honor.
  • 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: Robert Livingston Stevens
Triple: [Stevens family, hasNotableMember, Robert Livingston Stevens]
Generated description
Robert Livingston Stevens was a 19th-century American engineer and inventor best known for pioneering innovations in railroad technology, including the flanged T-rail.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Livingston Stevens
Target entity description: Robert Livingston Stevens was a 19th-century American engineer and inventor best known for pioneering innovations in railroad technology, including the flanged T-rail.
  • A. Robert Livingston Stanton
    Robert Livingston Stanton was a 19th-century American Presbyterian minister, educator, and abolitionist who served as president of Miami University in Ohio.
  • B. John Stevens
    John Stevens is an American singer best known for his crooner-style performances as a young contestant on the third season of "American Idol."
  • C. George H. Stevenson
    George H. Stevenson was a local figure of historical significance in Washington State, likely an early settler or community leader after whom the community of Stevenson, Washington, was named.
  • D. Randolph B. Marcy
    Randolph B. Marcy was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and explorer known for his frontier surveys and influential guidebooks on overland travel in the American West.
  • E. Joseph Bancroft
    Joseph Bancroft was an Australian physician and parasitologist known for his pioneering work on filarial worms, including the species later named Wuchereria bancrofti in his honor.
  • 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_69e24551ec7881909a9c924dbea155f6 completed April 17, 2026, 2:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f179b8e9408190b251700d3386a1b9 completed April 29, 2026, 3:23 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0ba79b7328819093084f120374c35f completed May 18, 2026, 11:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0ba8777b3c81909c294af4d7986a5b completed May 19, 2026, 12:01 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0ba92083ac819088111724d59aff11 completed May 19, 2026, 12:04 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:24 p.m.