Triple

T2693
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject American Institute of Electrical Engineers E50 entity
Predicate notableMember P10 FINISHED
Object Elihu Thomson
Elihu Thomson was a pioneering electrical engineer and inventor whose work in power systems and lighting helped shape the early electrical industry and led to the formation of General Electric.
E16477 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: Elihu Thomson | Statement: [American Institute of Electrical Engineers, notableMember, Elihu Thomson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Elihu Thomson
Context triple: [American Institute of Electrical Engineers, notableMember, Elihu Thomson]
  • A. George Westinghouse
    George Westinghouse was an American inventor and industrialist best known for pioneering railway air brakes and promoting alternating current (AC) power systems.
  • B. Charles Proteus Steinmetz
    Charles Proteus Steinmetz was a pioneering German-American electrical engineer and mathematician whose work on alternating current (AC) systems and electrical theory greatly advanced modern power engineering.
  • C. Ernst Alexanderson
    Ernst Alexanderson was a Swedish-American electrical engineer and pioneer in radio and television technology, best known for developing early high-frequency alternators used in long-distance radio communication.
  • D. William Barton Rogers
    William Barton Rogers was a 19th-century American geologist and educator best known for establishing the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and shaping its practical, science-focused educational philosophy.
  • E. Thomas Alva Edison
    Thomas Alva Edison was a pioneering American inventor and businessman best known for developing the practical incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture camera.
  • 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: Elihu Thomson
Triple: [American Institute of Electrical Engineers, notableMember, Elihu Thomson]
Generated description
Elihu Thomson was a pioneering electrical engineer and inventor whose work in power systems and lighting helped shape the early electrical industry and led to the formation of General Electric.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Elihu Thomson
Target entity description: Elihu Thomson was a pioneering electrical engineer and inventor whose work in power systems and lighting helped shape the early electrical industry and led to the formation of General Electric.
  • A. George Westinghouse
    George Westinghouse was an American inventor and industrialist best known for pioneering railway air brakes and promoting alternating current (AC) power systems.
  • B. Charles Proteus Steinmetz
    Charles Proteus Steinmetz was a pioneering German-American electrical engineer and mathematician whose work on alternating current (AC) systems and electrical theory greatly advanced modern power engineering.
  • C. Ernst Alexanderson
    Ernst Alexanderson was a Swedish-American electrical engineer and pioneer in radio and television technology, best known for developing early high-frequency alternators used in long-distance radio communication.
  • D. William Barton Rogers
    William Barton Rogers was a 19th-century American geologist and educator best known for establishing the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and shaping its practical, science-focused educational philosophy.
  • E. Thomas Alva Edison
    Thomas Alva Edison was a pioneering American inventor and businessman best known for developing the practical incandescent light bulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture camera.
  • 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_69a22e0d37588190897cf37a323013f5 completed Feb. 27, 2026, 11:51 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a230c560548190a57df2421e233775 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 12:03 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a2b4b495c4819084ed1b661f1d0a24 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:26 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a2b5c243e0819087bb4342c5a65eec completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:30 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2b6498fcc819089fcc02806e8f975 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:32 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 27, 2026, 11:55 p.m.