Triple
T297004
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Pinkerton National Detective Agency |
E6114
|
entity |
| Predicate | foundedBy |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Allan J. Pinkerton |
E38452
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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 J. Pinkerton | Statement: [Pinkerton National Detective Agency, foundedBy, Allan J. Pinkerton]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Allan J. Pinkerton Context triple: [Pinkerton National Detective Agency, foundedBy, Allan J. Pinkerton]
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A.
Allan Pinkerton
chosen
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.
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B.
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.
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C.
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.
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D.
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.
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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.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69a3ab9fda4c81909358613369a6848c |
completed | March 1, 2026, 2:59 a.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:06 p.m.