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]
  • 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
  • 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.