Triple

T352856
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Washington University in St. Louis E7479 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object Wayman Crow
Wayman Crow was a 19th-century American businessman, politician, and philanthropist best known for helping establish major cultural and educational institutions in St. Louis, including Washington University.
E98804 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: Wayman Crow | Statement: [Washington University in St. Louis, founder, Wayman Crow]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wayman Crow
Context triple: [Washington University in St. Louis, founder, Wayman Crow]
  • A. Richmond K. Turner
    Richmond K. Turner was a U.S. Navy admiral in World War II, best known for his pivotal role in planning and directing major amphibious operations in the Pacific Theater.
  • B. Henry T. Rainey
    Henry T. Rainey was an American Democratic politician who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives during the early New Deal era under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • C. Sam Huff
    Sam Huff was a legendary Hall of Fame middle linebacker renowned for his hard-hitting play with the New York Giants in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • D. John D. Newsome
    John D. Newsome was an American administrator who oversaw the Federal Writers’ Project, a New Deal program that employed writers to document U.S. history and culture during the Great Depression.
  • E. James Caldwell
    James Caldwell was one of the colonial civilians killed by British soldiers during the 1770 Boston Massacre, an event that helped fuel anti-British sentiment before the American Revolution.
  • 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: Wayman Crow
Triple: [Washington University in St. Louis, founder, Wayman Crow]
Generated description
Wayman Crow was a 19th-century American businessman, politician, and philanthropist best known for helping establish major cultural and educational institutions in St. Louis, including Washington University.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wayman Crow
Target entity description: Wayman Crow was a 19th-century American businessman, politician, and philanthropist best known for helping establish major cultural and educational institutions in St. Louis, including Washington University.
  • A. Richmond K. Turner
    Richmond K. Turner was a U.S. Navy admiral in World War II, best known for his pivotal role in planning and directing major amphibious operations in the Pacific Theater.
  • B. Henry T. Rainey
    Henry T. Rainey was an American Democratic politician who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives during the early New Deal era under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • C. Sam Huff
    Sam Huff was a legendary Hall of Fame middle linebacker renowned for his hard-hitting play with the New York Giants in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • D. John D. Newsome
    John D. Newsome was an American administrator who oversaw the Federal Writers’ Project, a New Deal program that employed writers to document U.S. history and culture during the Great Depression.
  • E. James Caldwell
    James Caldwell was one of the colonial civilians killed by British soldiers during the 1770 Boston Massacre, an event that helped fuel anti-British sentiment before the American Revolution.
  • 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_69a79277143c819091019a9ca625039f completed March 4, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7931d1bac8190b9b300f3d7f94131 completed March 4, 2026, 2:04 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a793860a688190a537418beb72141c completed March 4, 2026, 2:05 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.