Triple

T352855
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Washington University in St. Louis E7479 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object William Greenleaf Eliot
William Greenleaf Eliot was a 19th-century American Unitarian minister, educator, and civic leader in St. Louis who played a key role in the city’s cultural and educational development.
E44623 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: William Greenleaf Eliot | Statement: [Washington University in St. Louis, founder, William Greenleaf Eliot]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Greenleaf Eliot
Context triple: [Washington University in St. Louis, founder, William Greenleaf Eliot]
  • A. T. S. Eliot
    T. S. Eliot was a seminal 20th-century poet, critic, and playwright, best known for works such as "The Waste Land" and "Four Quartets," which profoundly influenced modernist literature.
  • B. W. H. Auden
    W. H. Auden was a major 20th-century Anglo-American poet known for his technical virtuosity, moral and political engagement, and wide-ranging influence on modern poetry.
  • C. T. E. Hulme
    T. E. Hulme was an early 20th-century English critic and poet whose philosophical and aesthetic ideas helped lay the groundwork for modernist and imagist poetry.
  • D. Ezra Pound
    Ezra Pound was an American poet and critic who became a central figure in early 20th-century modernist literature, known for his innovative style, promotion of fellow writers, and controversial political views.
  • E. Charles Lowell
    Charles Lowell was a prominent early 19th-century American Unitarian minister and the father of poet and critic James Russell Lowell.
  • 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: William Greenleaf Eliot
Triple: [Washington University in St. Louis, founder, William Greenleaf Eliot]
Generated description
William Greenleaf Eliot was a 19th-century American Unitarian minister, educator, and civic leader in St. Louis who played a key role in the city’s cultural and educational development.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Greenleaf Eliot
Target entity description: William Greenleaf Eliot was a 19th-century American Unitarian minister, educator, and civic leader in St. Louis who played a key role in the city’s cultural and educational development.
  • A. T. S. Eliot
    T. S. Eliot was a seminal 20th-century poet, critic, and playwright, best known for works such as "The Waste Land" and "Four Quartets," which profoundly influenced modernist literature.
  • B. W. H. Auden
    W. H. Auden was a major 20th-century Anglo-American poet known for his technical virtuosity, moral and political engagement, and wide-ranging influence on modern poetry.
  • C. T. E. Hulme
    T. E. Hulme was an early 20th-century English critic and poet whose philosophical and aesthetic ideas helped lay the groundwork for modernist and imagist poetry.
  • D. Ezra Pound
    Ezra Pound was an American poet and critic who became a central figure in early 20th-century modernist literature, known for his innovative style, promotion of fellow writers, and controversial political views.
  • E. Charles Lowell
    Charles Lowell was a prominent early 19th-century American Unitarian minister and the father of poet and critic James Russell Lowell.
  • 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_69a2e7e696948190bebc966535995e45 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2eb7f1be88190964ddcbb6a05f021 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:19 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3dd353b488190b6ed966290260806 completed March 1, 2026, 6:31 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3ddbbe7e08190ac167e158d19dbce completed March 1, 2026, 6:33 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3de3fef7c819082193eb7083175e1 completed March 1, 2026, 6:35 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.