Triple
T3586267
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Los Angeles Aqueduct |
E75916
|
entity |
| Predicate | chiefEngineer |
P616
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William Mulholland |
E313160
|
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: William Mulholland | Statement: [Los Angeles Aqueduct, chiefEngineer, William Mulholland]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Mulholland Context triple: [Los Angeles Aqueduct, chiefEngineer, William Mulholland]
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A.
William Mulholland
chosen
William Mulholland was an influential early 20th-century civil engineer who masterminded Los Angeles’s water infrastructure, most famously the Los Angeles Aqueduct, which transformed the city’s growth and sparked major water-rights controversies.
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B.
James J. Storrow
James J. Storrow was a prominent early 20th-century Boston businessman and civic leader known for his influential role in the city’s public works and urban development.
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C.
Philip H. Lathrop
Philip H. Lathrop was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous notable films and television productions in the mid-20th century.
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D.
John Frank Stevens
John Frank Stevens was an American civil engineer best known for his pivotal role in organizing and directing early construction and infrastructure work on the Panama Canal.
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E.
Robert Moses
Robert Moses was a powerful and controversial New York urban planner whose extensive highway, bridge, and park projects reshaped the city and its surrounding region in the mid-20th century.
- 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_69ad85d6dc3c8190b491b79b83e25461 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69adc137eb708190809cd52b6deb227c |
completed | March 8, 2026, 6:34 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b43303f1088190be5e4460f579efb8 |
completed | March 13, 2026, 3:53 p.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:22 p.m.