Triple

T274484
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York City E5215 entity
Predicate hasBurial P196 FINISHED
Object J. C. Penney
J. C. Penney was an American businessman and entrepreneur best known as the founder of the JCPenney department store chain.
E35837 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: J. C. Penney | Statement: [Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York City, hasBurial, J. C. Penney]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J. C. Penney
Context triple: [Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York City, hasBurial, J. C. Penney]
  • A. Nordstrom
    Nordstrom is a leading American luxury department store chain known for its high-end fashion, quality customer service, and nationwide retail presence.
  • B. Sears, Roebuck & Co.
    Sears, Roebuck & Co. was a major American retail company and mail-order catalog pioneer that became one of the largest and most influential department store chains in the United States.
  • C. Costco Wholesale Corporation
    Costco Wholesale Corporation is a multinational membership-based warehouse club retailer known for selling bulk goods at discounted prices through large-scale warehouse stores.
  • D. Myer
    Myer is a surname most notably associated with Albert J. Myer, the U.S. Army officer who founded the U.S. Army Signal Corps and pioneered military telegraphy and weather services.
  • E. Marshall Field
    Marshall Field was a prominent American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the founder of the Chicago-based Marshall Field and Company department store empire.
  • 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: J. C. Penney
Triple: [Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx, New York City, hasBurial, J. C. Penney]
Generated description
J. C. Penney was an American businessman and entrepreneur best known as the founder of the JCPenney department store chain.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J. C. Penney
Target entity description: J. C. Penney was an American businessman and entrepreneur best known as the founder of the JCPenney department store chain.
  • A. Nordstrom
    Nordstrom is a leading American luxury department store chain known for its high-end fashion, quality customer service, and nationwide retail presence.
  • B. Sears, Roebuck & Co.
    Sears, Roebuck & Co. was a major American retail company and mail-order catalog pioneer that became one of the largest and most influential department store chains in the United States.
  • C. Costco Wholesale Corporation
    Costco Wholesale Corporation is a multinational membership-based warehouse club retailer known for selling bulk goods at discounted prices through large-scale warehouse stores.
  • D. Myer
    Myer is a surname most notably associated with Albert J. Myer, the U.S. Army officer who founded the U.S. Army Signal Corps and pioneered military telegraphy and weather services.
  • E. Marshall Field
    Marshall Field was a prominent American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as the founder of the Chicago-based Marshall Field and Company department store empire.
  • 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_69a257e6c8788190987dfe705ca2912a completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:50 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25dd0a99c819089968a5400c58c5f completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:15 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a391506e2881909fa399aab00d3ac9 completed March 1, 2026, 1:07 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a391bb35bc8190b0c84968c156439b completed March 1, 2026, 1:09 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a39217ae2c819082fef73a105edf7d completed March 1, 2026, 1:10 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:59 a.m.