Triple

T400064
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William C. Durant E9259 entity
Predicate businessPartner P282 FINISHED
Object J. Dallas Dort
J. Dallas Dort was an American automobile pioneer and industrialist best known as the co-founder of the Durant-Dort Carriage Company, a key precursor to General Motors.
E102059 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: J. Dallas Dort | Statement: [William C. Durant, businessPartner, J. Dallas Dort]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J. Dallas Dort
Context triple: [William C. Durant, businessPartner, J. Dallas Dort]
  • A. Charles G. Smith
    Charles G. Smith was an American engineer and businessman best known as a co-founder of the defense and aerospace company Raytheon.
  • B. Robert K. Brigham
    Robert K. Brigham is an American historian and scholar of the Vietnam War, known for his extensive research and writings on U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam conflict.
  • C. John R. Steelman
    John R. Steelman was an American administrator and labor mediator who served as a top aide to President Harry S. Truman and became one of the most influential behind-the-scenes figures in the postwar White House.
  • D. Willard Martin
    Willard Martin was an American architect best known for creating Portland, Oregon’s iconic public space, Pioneer Courthouse Square.
  • E. Alan S. Boyd
    Alan S. Boyd was an American lawyer and public official who became the first U.S. Secretary of Transportation, helping to shape national transportation policy in the late 1960s.
  • 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: J. Dallas Dort
Triple: [William C. Durant, businessPartner, J. Dallas Dort]
Generated description
J. Dallas Dort was an American automobile pioneer and industrialist best known as the co-founder of the Durant-Dort Carriage Company, a key precursor to General Motors.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J. Dallas Dort
Target entity description: J. Dallas Dort was an American automobile pioneer and industrialist best known as the co-founder of the Durant-Dort Carriage Company, a key precursor to General Motors.
  • A. Charles G. Smith
    Charles G. Smith was an American engineer and businessman best known as a co-founder of the defense and aerospace company Raytheon.
  • B. Robert K. Brigham
    Robert K. Brigham is an American historian and scholar of the Vietnam War, known for his extensive research and writings on U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam conflict.
  • C. John R. Steelman
    John R. Steelman was an American administrator and labor mediator who served as a top aide to President Harry S. Truman and became one of the most influential behind-the-scenes figures in the postwar White House.
  • D. Willard Martin
    Willard Martin was an American architect best known for creating Portland, Oregon’s iconic public space, Pioneer Courthouse Square.
  • E. Alan S. Boyd
    Alan S. Boyd was an American lawyer and public official who became the first U.S. Secretary of Transportation, helping to shape national transportation policy in the late 1960s.
  • 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_69a7a39f98a88190907752f3df1e126c completed March 4, 2026, 3:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7a62fde3c8190a9d7fd599d87e751 completed March 4, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7a696bd148190a73865dea296b8f1 completed March 4, 2026, 3:27 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.