Triple

T4180350
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cunard Line E86578 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object Samuel Cunard
Samuel Cunard was a 19th-century British-Canadian shipping magnate best known for pioneering regular transatlantic steamship service and building one of the world’s most influential passenger shipping companies.
E419969 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 Cunard | Statement: [Cunard Line, founder, Samuel Cunard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Cunard
Context triple: [Cunard Line, founder, Samuel Cunard]
  • A. Frederick Tudor
    Frederick Tudor was a 19th-century American entrepreneur known as the "Ice King" for pioneering the international ice trade.
  • B. Joseph Drake
    Joseph Drake is a film producer and studio executive known for his work on numerous Hollywood comedies and genre films.
  • C. William Hutchinson
    William Hutchinson was a 17th-century English merchant and colonial settler in Massachusetts Bay, best known as the husband of religious dissenter Anne Hutchinson.
  • D. Nathaniel Palmer
    Nathaniel Palmer was a 19th-century American seal hunter and explorer often credited as one of the first people to sight the Antarctic Peninsula.
  • E. Samuel Ballard
    Samuel Ballard is a fictional barrister and conservative, somewhat pompous head of chambers in John Mortimer’s Rumpole of the Bailey stories.
  • 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 Cunard
Triple: [Cunard Line, founder, Samuel Cunard]
Generated description
Samuel Cunard was a 19th-century British-Canadian shipping magnate best known for pioneering regular transatlantic steamship service and building one of the world’s most influential passenger shipping companies.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Samuel Cunard
Target entity description: Samuel Cunard was a 19th-century British-Canadian shipping magnate best known for pioneering regular transatlantic steamship service and building one of the world’s most influential passenger shipping companies.
  • A. Frederick Tudor
    Frederick Tudor was a 19th-century American entrepreneur known as the "Ice King" for pioneering the international ice trade.
  • B. Joseph Drake
    Joseph Drake is a film producer and studio executive known for his work on numerous Hollywood comedies and genre films.
  • C. William Hutchinson
    William Hutchinson was a 17th-century English merchant and colonial settler in Massachusetts Bay, best known as the husband of religious dissenter Anne Hutchinson.
  • D. Nathaniel Palmer
    Nathaniel Palmer was a 19th-century American seal hunter and explorer often credited as one of the first people to sight the Antarctic Peninsula.
  • E. Samuel Ballard
    Samuel Ballard is a fictional barrister and conservative, somewhat pompous head of chambers in John Mortimer’s Rumpole of the Bailey stories.
  • 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_69aed93de98c8190ad838ce507b77c8a completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69af0302972c819082f6e1938ed417c4 completed March 9, 2026, 5:27 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b589f89f4481909f95d3ca915bac18 completed March 14, 2026, 4:16 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b58e0446d48190a1fd54bcc72af026 completed March 14, 2026, 4:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b58e8d57cc8190a823a7cf3a3f0cdf completed March 14, 2026, 4:36 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:45 p.m.