Triple

T2395077
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Southern Pacific Railroad E47630 entity
Predicate formedBy P972 FINISHED
Object Mark Hopkins
Mark Hopkins was a 19th-century American railroad magnate and one of the "Big Four" tycoons who financed and built the Central Pacific Railroad.
E262610 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: Mark Hopkins | Statement: [Southern Pacific Railroad, formedBy, Mark Hopkins]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mark Hopkins
Context triple: [Southern Pacific Railroad, formedBy, Mark Hopkins]
  • A. 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.
  • B. Henry Wheaton
    Henry Wheaton was a 19th-century American jurist, diplomat, and pioneering scholar of international law whose writings significantly shaped the field.
  • C. James R. Osgood
    James R. Osgood was a prominent 19th-century American publisher known for his influential role in the Boston literary scene and for publishing works by major authors of his time.
  • D. Augustus Trowbridge
    Augustus Trowbridge was an American physicist and academic known for his work in optics and for mentoring influential engineers and scientists in the early 20th century.
  • E. Joseph Howland
    Joseph Howland was a 17th-century New England colonist, known primarily as a son of Mayflower passenger John Howland and a member of the early Plymouth Colony community.
  • 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: Mark Hopkins
Triple: [Southern Pacific Railroad, formedBy, Mark Hopkins]
Generated description
Mark Hopkins was a 19th-century American railroad magnate and one of the "Big Four" tycoons who financed and built the Central Pacific Railroad.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mark Hopkins
Target entity description: Mark Hopkins was a 19th-century American railroad magnate and one of the "Big Four" tycoons who financed and built the Central Pacific Railroad.
  • A. 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.
  • B. Henry Wheaton
    Henry Wheaton was a 19th-century American jurist, diplomat, and pioneering scholar of international law whose writings significantly shaped the field.
  • C. James R. Osgood
    James R. Osgood was a prominent 19th-century American publisher known for his influential role in the Boston literary scene and for publishing works by major authors of his time.
  • D. Augustus Trowbridge
    Augustus Trowbridge was an American physicist and academic known for his work in optics and for mentoring influential engineers and scientists in the early 20th century.
  • E. Joseph Howland
    Joseph Howland was a 17th-century New England colonist, known primarily as a son of Mayflower passenger John Howland and a member of the early Plymouth Colony community.
  • 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_69a88a1c450c81909f61abb8b6863885 completed March 4, 2026, 7:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc879b1b88190be8d0337d9a17bd0 completed March 7, 2026, 6:40 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aeb3dc44dc819099b8914b878c5638 completed March 9, 2026, 11:49 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aeb4de29988190ae860fc6f241f225 completed March 9, 2026, 11:54 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aeb562560c8190a03c6d8ce6d75956 completed March 9, 2026, 11:56 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:57 p.m.