Triple
T400062
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William C. Durant |
E9259
|
entity |
| Predicate | founded |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Durant-Dort Carriage Company
Durant-Dort Carriage Company was a leading late-19th-century American horse-drawn carriage manufacturer that became the foundation for William C. Durant’s later creation of General Motors.
|
E50986
|
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: Durant-Dort Carriage Company | Statement: [William C. Durant, founded, Durant-Dort Carriage Company]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Durant-Dort Carriage Company Context triple: [William C. Durant, founded, Durant-Dort Carriage Company]
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A.
Southern Street Railway Company
The Southern Street Railway Company was a transit operator that managed portions of Chicago’s streetcar network as part of the Chicago Surface Lines system.
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B.
Brill streetcar
The Brill streetcar is a historic electric tramcar model built by the J.G. Brill Company, known for its early 20th-century use in urban street railway systems and preservation in heritage streetcar fleets.
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C.
American Bridge Company
American Bridge Company is a major U.S. engineering and construction firm historically known for building large-scale steel structures such as bridges and skyscrapers.
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D.
Holabird & Roche
Holabird & Roche was a prominent Chicago-based architectural firm known for its influential early skyscraper designs and major civic projects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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E.
J. C. Nichols Company
J. C. Nichols Company was a prominent Kansas City real estate development firm best known for pioneering master-planned residential communities and the landmark Country Club Plaza shopping district.
- 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: Durant-Dort Carriage Company Triple: [William C. Durant, founded, Durant-Dort Carriage Company]
Generated description
Durant-Dort Carriage Company was a leading late-19th-century American horse-drawn carriage manufacturer that became the foundation for William C. Durant’s later creation of General Motors.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Durant-Dort Carriage Company Target entity description: Durant-Dort Carriage Company was a leading late-19th-century American horse-drawn carriage manufacturer that became the foundation for William C. Durant’s later creation of General Motors.
-
A.
Southern Street Railway Company
The Southern Street Railway Company was a transit operator that managed portions of Chicago’s streetcar network as part of the Chicago Surface Lines system.
-
B.
Brill streetcar
The Brill streetcar is a historic electric tramcar model built by the J.G. Brill Company, known for its early 20th-century use in urban street railway systems and preservation in heritage streetcar fleets.
-
C.
American Bridge Company
American Bridge Company is a major U.S. engineering and construction firm historically known for building large-scale steel structures such as bridges and skyscrapers.
-
D.
Holabird & Roche
Holabird & Roche was a prominent Chicago-based architectural firm known for its influential early skyscraper designs and major civic projects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
-
E.
J. C. Nichols Company
J. C. Nichols Company was a prominent Kansas City real estate development firm best known for pioneering master-planned residential communities and the landmark Country Club Plaza shopping district.
- 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_69a2e8004cb88190b92ed1add6abf41a |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 1:05 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a2ec8e655c819081eff85c0ef55fa5 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 1:24 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a4103f9f588190aabdf7f5d6422d09 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 10:09 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69a410e5ba148190a7fe0ee9861fb334 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 10:11 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69a41180ead48190a5edd2e66da413ba |
completed | March 1, 2026, 10:14 a.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.