Triple

T3502563
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sotheby’s E74001 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object Samuel Baker
Samuel Baker was an 18th-century British bookseller and auctioneer best known for establishing the auction house that became Sotheby’s.
E364220 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: Samuel Baker | Statement: [Sotheby’s, founder, Samuel Baker]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Baker
Context triple: [Sotheby’s, founder, Samuel Baker]
  • A. Cecil Vyse
    Cecil Vyse is a snobbish, socially pretentious English gentleman whose ill-suited engagement to Lucy Honeychurch highlights class and emotional constraints in the film "A Room with a View."
  • B. Ernest Brown
    Ernest Brown was a British Liberal National politician who served as Minister of Labour in Neville Chamberlain’s government before later becoming Secretary of State for Scotland.
  • C. John Hanning Speke
    John Hanning Speke was a 19th-century British explorer best known for his expeditions in East Africa and for identifying Lake Victoria as the principal source of the Nile.
  • D. J. W. Barlow
    J. W. Barlow was an American settler and community founder credited with establishing the city of Richland Center in Wisconsin.
  • E. Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza
    Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza was an Italian-French explorer and colonial administrator known for leading French expeditions in Central Africa and playing a key role in establishing French Congo.
  • 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: Samuel Baker
Triple: [Sotheby’s, founder, Samuel Baker]
Generated description
Samuel Baker was an 18th-century British bookseller and auctioneer best known for establishing the auction house that became Sotheby’s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Baker
Target entity description: Samuel Baker was an 18th-century British bookseller and auctioneer best known for establishing the auction house that became Sotheby’s.
  • A. Cecil Vyse
    Cecil Vyse is a snobbish, socially pretentious English gentleman whose ill-suited engagement to Lucy Honeychurch highlights class and emotional constraints in the film "A Room with a View."
  • B. Ernest Brown
    Ernest Brown was a British Liberal National politician who served as Minister of Labour in Neville Chamberlain’s government before later becoming Secretary of State for Scotland.
  • C. John Hanning Speke
    John Hanning Speke was a 19th-century British explorer best known for his expeditions in East Africa and for identifying Lake Victoria as the principal source of the Nile.
  • D. J. W. Barlow
    J. W. Barlow was an American settler and community founder credited with establishing the city of Richland Center in Wisconsin.
  • E. Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza
    Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza was an Italian-French explorer and colonial administrator known for leading French expeditions in Central Africa and playing a key role in establishing French Congo.
  • 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_69ad85ce7a9c81909ddc5cf0cb67a6e3 completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adbbef47988190b5b3fe2e452b9ac8 completed March 8, 2026, 6:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b373d88dc08190a8508f990b01cf03 completed March 13, 2026, 2:18 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b3779133788190a17b2d8a51587682 completed March 13, 2026, 2:33 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b377facc048190849ccd4ddcd9b442 completed March 13, 2026, 2:35 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:18 p.m.