Triple

T234689
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Shreve, Lamb & Harmon E4482 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object William F. Lamb
William F. Lamb was an American architect best known as the principal designer of the Empire State Building and a leading partner in the firm Shreve, Lamb & Harmon.
E33986 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: William F. Lamb | Statement: [Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, foundedBy, William F. Lamb]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William F. Lamb
Context triple: [Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, foundedBy, William F. Lamb]
  • A. George Willis Ritchey
    George Willis Ritchey was an American optician and telescope designer renowned for pioneering advanced reflecting telescope technologies in the early 20th century.
  • B. Simon Newcomb
    Simon Newcomb was a 19th-century Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician renowned for his work in celestial mechanics, astronomical constants, and early studies of what became known as Benford's law.
  • C. Harold A. Wheeler
    Harold A. Wheeler was an influential American electrical engineer and inventor known for his pioneering contributions to radio and radar technology.
  • D. Robert B. Leighton
    Robert B. Leighton was an American experimental physicist and educator known for his contributions to cosmic-ray and infrared astronomy and for coauthoring the influential Feynman Lectures on Physics.
  • E. Frank B. Jewett
    Frank B. Jewett was an American electrical engineer and physicist who served as the first president of Bell Telephone Laboratories and played a major role in organizing U.S. scientific research during World War II.
  • 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: William F. Lamb
Triple: [Shreve, Lamb & Harmon, foundedBy, William F. Lamb]
Generated description
William F. Lamb was an American architect best known as the principal designer of the Empire State Building and a leading partner in the firm Shreve, Lamb & Harmon.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William F. Lamb
Target entity description: William F. Lamb was an American architect best known as the principal designer of the Empire State Building and a leading partner in the firm Shreve, Lamb & Harmon.
  • A. George Willis Ritchey
    George Willis Ritchey was an American optician and telescope designer renowned for pioneering advanced reflecting telescope technologies in the early 20th century.
  • B. Simon Newcomb
    Simon Newcomb was a 19th-century Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician renowned for his work in celestial mechanics, astronomical constants, and early studies of what became known as Benford's law.
  • C. Harold A. Wheeler
    Harold A. Wheeler was an influential American electrical engineer and inventor known for his pioneering contributions to radio and radar technology.
  • D. Robert B. Leighton
    Robert B. Leighton was an American experimental physicist and educator known for his contributions to cosmic-ray and infrared astronomy and for coauthoring the influential Feynman Lectures on Physics.
  • E. Frank B. Jewett
    Frank B. Jewett was an American electrical engineer and physicist who served as the first president of Bell Telephone Laboratories and played a major role in organizing U.S. scientific research during World War II.
  • 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_69a257363ffc81909757bde7ab3404da completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25cc9ab2c81909af278a07f86aa1e completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:11 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a386155c0c8190baa1a1d5df15392e completed March 1, 2026, 12:19 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3867100008190a4d17f099802864c completed March 1, 2026, 12:21 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a386c0ee288190ae58373c531e6313 completed March 1, 2026, 12:22 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:53 a.m.