Triple

T3605385
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Granite Railway E76357 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object Thomas Handasyd Perkins
Thomas Handasyd Perkins was a prominent 19th-century Boston merchant, investor, and philanthropist who played a key role in early American finance and infrastructure development.
 E372671 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: Thomas Handasyd Perkins | Statement: [Granite Railway, founder, Thomas Handasyd Perkins]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas Handasyd Perkins
Context triple: [Granite Railway, founder, Thomas Handasyd Perkins]
  • A. Frederick H. Billings
    Frederick H. Billings was a 19th-century American lawyer, financier, and president of the Northern Pacific Railway, known for his role in railroad expansion and conservation efforts in the American West.
  • B. George C. Perkins
    George C. Perkins was an American politician and businessman who served as the 14th governor of California and later as a U.S. Senator.
  • C. Ruggles Sylvester Morse
    Ruggles Sylvester Morse was a wealthy 19th-century hotelier and entrepreneur best known for commissioning and owning the opulent Victoria Mansion in Portland, Maine.
  • D. Thomas Nelson Haskell
    Thomas Nelson Haskell was a 19th-century American educator and Presbyterian minister best known for establishing Colorado College in Colorado Springs.
  • E. George A. Perkins
    George A. Perkins was an American lawyer best known as a founding partner of the prominent U.S. law firm Perkins Coie.
  • 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: Thomas Handasyd Perkins
Triple: [Granite Railway, founder, Thomas Handasyd Perkins]
Generated description
Thomas Handasyd Perkins was a prominent 19th-century Boston merchant, investor, and philanthropist who played a key role in early American finance and infrastructure development.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas Handasyd Perkins
Target entity description: Thomas Handasyd Perkins was a prominent 19th-century Boston merchant, investor, and philanthropist who played a key role in early American finance and infrastructure development.
  • A. Frederick H. Billings
    Frederick H. Billings was a 19th-century American lawyer, financier, and president of the Northern Pacific Railway, known for his role in railroad expansion and conservation efforts in the American West.
  • B. George C. Perkins
    George C. Perkins was an American politician and businessman who served as the 14th governor of California and later as a U.S. Senator.
  • C. Ruggles Sylvester Morse
    Ruggles Sylvester Morse was a wealthy 19th-century hotelier and entrepreneur best known for commissioning and owning the opulent Victoria Mansion in Portland, Maine.
  • D. Thomas Nelson Haskell
    Thomas Nelson Haskell was a 19th-century American educator and Presbyterian minister best known for establishing Colorado College in Colorado Springs.
  • E. George A. Perkins
    George A. Perkins was an American lawyer best known as a founding partner of the prominent U.S. law firm Perkins Coie.
  • 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_69ad85d93dcc819094fba90cf70f4996 completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc1e1f9188190b481c26b7f561db7 completed March 8, 2026, 6:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4330bc9f081909a5c1e6da885cfc5 completed March 13, 2026, 3:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4364e9f848190ab1e5e03c43dfae4 completed March 13, 2026, 4:07 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4367bec908190b0c6dc844af5e366 completed March 13, 2026, 4:08 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:22 p.m.