Triple

T3741364
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Black & Veatch E79705 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object Nathan Thomas Veatch
Nathan Thomas Veatch was an American engineer and businessman best known for co-founding the global engineering, consulting, and construction firm Black & Veatch.
E385107 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: Nathan Thomas Veatch | Statement: [Black & Veatch, founder, Nathan Thomas Veatch]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nathan Thomas Veatch
Context triple: [Black & Veatch, founder, Nathan Thomas Veatch]
  • A. John Pehle
    John Pehle was an American Treasury Department official who became the first executive director of the War Refugee Board and played a key role in U.S. efforts to rescue Jews and other persecuted people during the Holocaust.
  • B. John Requa
    John Requa is an American screenwriter and director known for co-writing films such as "Bad Santa," "I Love You Phillip Morris," and "Jungle Cruise."
  • C. Greg Stillson
    Greg Stillson is the ambitious, populist politician and primary antagonist in Stephen King’s novel "The Dead Zone," whose rise to power is foreseen to lead to catastrophic consequences.
  • D. David Scearce
    David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
  • E. Benjamin Earl Nelson
    Benjamin Earl Nelson, better known as Ben E. King, was an American soul and R&B singer famed for his classic hit "Stand by Me."
  • 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: Nathan Thomas Veatch
Triple: [Black & Veatch, founder, Nathan Thomas Veatch]
Generated description
Nathan Thomas Veatch was an American engineer and businessman best known for co-founding the global engineering, consulting, and construction firm Black & Veatch.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nathan Thomas Veatch
Target entity description: Nathan Thomas Veatch was an American engineer and businessman best known for co-founding the global engineering, consulting, and construction firm Black & Veatch.
  • A. John Pehle
    John Pehle was an American Treasury Department official who became the first executive director of the War Refugee Board and played a key role in U.S. efforts to rescue Jews and other persecuted people during the Holocaust.
  • B. John Requa
    John Requa is an American screenwriter and director known for co-writing films such as "Bad Santa," "I Love You Phillip Morris," and "Jungle Cruise."
  • C. Greg Stillson
    Greg Stillson is the ambitious, populist politician and primary antagonist in Stephen King’s novel "The Dead Zone," whose rise to power is foreseen to lead to catastrophic consequences.
  • D. David Scearce
    David Scearce is a Canadian screenwriter best known for adapting Christopher Isherwood’s novel into the acclaimed film "A Single Man."
  • E. Benjamin Earl Nelson
    Benjamin Earl Nelson, better known as Ben E. King, was an American soul and R&B singer famed for his classic hit "Stand by Me."
  • 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_69ad8b115610819095b02007da5ca3cb completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adcb549490819084ebe69aae5ccf95 completed March 8, 2026, 7:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4db26adbc8190becd03db70e63112 completed March 14, 2026, 3:51 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4dc2c274c8190a7c8fa419186e188 completed March 14, 2026, 3:55 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4e0065b008190b2ad78546e563b4d completed March 14, 2026, 4:11 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:34 p.m.