Triple

T297003
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pinkerton National Detective Agency E6114 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Allan Pinkerton
Allan Pinkerton was a 19th-century Scottish-American detective and spy who founded one of the first and most influential private detective agencies in the United States.
E38452 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: Allan Pinkerton | Statement: [Pinkerton National Detective Agency, foundedBy, Allan Pinkerton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Allan Pinkerton
Context triple: [Pinkerton National Detective Agency, foundedBy, Allan Pinkerton]
  • A. James Ashmore Creelman
    James Ashmore Creelman was an American screenwriter best known for his work on early 1930s adventure and horror films, including the classic monster movie King Kong.
  • B. Albert West
    Albert West was an associate of Mahatma Gandhi and an early supporter of his work in South Africa, contributing to Gandhi’s newspaper Indian Opinion and assisting in the development of the Phoenix Settlement.
  • C. Robert Morris
    Robert Morris was a Founding Father of the United States and its chief financier during the American Revolution, playing a crucial role in funding the Continental Army and shaping the new nation's economic foundations.
  • D. Jay Gould
    Jay Gould was a powerful and controversial 19th-century American railroad magnate and financier known for his ruthless business tactics and major influence during the Gilded Age.
  • E. Andrew Smith Hallidie
    Andrew Smith Hallidie was a 19th-century engineer and inventor credited with pioneering San Francisco’s cable car system and advancing wire rope technology.
  • 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: Allan Pinkerton
Triple: [Pinkerton National Detective Agency, foundedBy, Allan Pinkerton]
Generated description
Allan Pinkerton was a 19th-century Scottish-American detective and spy who founded one of the first and most influential private detective agencies in the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Allan Pinkerton
Target entity description: Allan Pinkerton was a 19th-century Scottish-American detective and spy who founded one of the first and most influential private detective agencies in the United States.
  • A. James Ashmore Creelman
    James Ashmore Creelman was an American screenwriter best known for his work on early 1930s adventure and horror films, including the classic monster movie King Kong.
  • B. Albert West
    Albert West was an associate of Mahatma Gandhi and an early supporter of his work in South Africa, contributing to Gandhi’s newspaper Indian Opinion and assisting in the development of the Phoenix Settlement.
  • C. Robert Morris
    Robert Morris was a Founding Father of the United States and its chief financier during the American Revolution, playing a crucial role in funding the Continental Army and shaping the new nation's economic foundations.
  • D. Jay Gould
    Jay Gould was a powerful and controversial 19th-century American railroad magnate and financier known for his ruthless business tactics and major influence during the Gilded Age.
  • E. Andrew Smith Hallidie
    Andrew Smith Hallidie was a 19th-century engineer and inventor credited with pioneering San Francisco’s cable car system and advancing wire rope technology.
  • 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_69a2e79114b081909490b3bf5a5dbb51 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2e9e273f88190ac5355d1310376ed completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3a88a27648190a691c62f0361fd90 completed March 1, 2026, 2:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3a90299888190b7f88d6411531823 completed March 1, 2026, 2:48 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3a96d153081909fab6bace45206ec completed March 1, 2026, 2:50 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:06 p.m.