Triple

T4059599
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Southern Railway (U.S.) E84776 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Samuel Spencer
Samuel Spencer was an American railroad executive best known as the first president and a key organizer of the Southern Railway in the late 19th century.
E410891 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: Samuel Spencer | Statement: [Southern Railway (U.S.), foundedBy, Samuel Spencer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Spencer
Context triple: [Southern Railway (U.S.), foundedBy, Samuel Spencer]
  • A. Samuel Black
    Samuel Black is the father of American stand-up comedian and social critic Lewis Black.
  • B. Samuel Russell
    Samuel Russell was an architect known for designing the Middlesex Guildhall in London, a notable example of early 20th-century civic architecture.
  • C. Samuel Barnes
    Samuel Barnes is an author known for his work with the Juicy brand.
  • D. Samuel Gardner
    Samuel Gardner is a fictional teenage protagonist on the autism spectrum from the Netflix series "Atypical."
  • E. Samuel Weaver
    Samuel Weaver was the teenage son of Randy Weaver who was fatally shot by U.S. marshals during the 1992 Ruby Ridge standoff in Idaho.
  • 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: Samuel Spencer
Triple: [Southern Railway (U.S.), foundedBy, Samuel Spencer]
Generated description
Samuel Spencer was an American railroad executive best known as the first president and a key organizer of the Southern Railway in the late 19th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Spencer
Target entity description: Samuel Spencer was an American railroad executive best known as the first president and a key organizer of the Southern Railway in the late 19th century.
  • A. Samuel Black
    Samuel Black is the father of American stand-up comedian and social critic Lewis Black.
  • B. Samuel Russell
    Samuel Russell was an architect known for designing the Middlesex Guildhall in London, a notable example of early 20th-century civic architecture.
  • C. Samuel Barnes
    Samuel Barnes is an author known for his work with the Juicy brand.
  • D. Samuel Gardner
    Samuel Gardner is a fictional teenage protagonist on the autism spectrum from the Netflix series "Atypical."
  • E. Samuel Weaver
    Samuel Weaver was the teenage son of Randy Weaver who was fatally shot by U.S. marshals during the 1992 Ruby Ridge standoff in Idaho.
  • 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_69aed933bec881909edfa28ebb69c634 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aefbd32c0c8190bc575974ccf831b3 completed March 9, 2026, 4:56 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b562a98c488190a7e77cd46ff998bc completed March 14, 2026, 1:29 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5637cd5b881909a930ecb33eed991 completed March 14, 2026, 1:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b564603b4881909e80970aa21e3db4 completed March 14, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:38 p.m.