Triple

T422385
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Shedd Aquarium E8131 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object John G. Shedd
John G. Shedd was a prominent Chicago businessman and philanthropist best known for funding and establishing the Shedd Aquarium.
E144783 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: John G. Shedd | Statement: [Shedd Aquarium, foundedBy, John G. Shedd]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John G. Shedd
Context triple: [Shedd Aquarium, foundedBy, John G. Shedd]
  • A. Edmund G. Ross
    Edmund G. Ross was a 19th-century U.S. senator from Kansas best known for casting the decisive vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, an act later celebrated in John F. Kennedy’s "Profiles in Courage."
  • B. Charles Ranlett Flint
    Charles Ranlett Flint was an American financier and industrialist best known for orchestrating mergers that led to the creation of major corporations, including the company that became IBM.
  • C. John Galen Howard
    John Galen Howard was an influential American architect best known for shaping the early 20th-century architectural landscape of the University of California, Berkeley campus.
  • D. William R. Day
    William R. Day was an American diplomat, U.S. Secretary of State, and later Associate Justice of the Supreme Court who played a key role in ending the Spanish–American War.
  • E. William Burnet Tuthill
    William Burnet Tuthill was an American architect best known for designing New York City's renowned concert venue Carnegie Hall.
  • 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: John G. Shedd
Triple: [Shedd Aquarium, foundedBy, John G. Shedd]
Generated description
John G. Shedd was a prominent Chicago businessman and philanthropist best known for funding and establishing the Shedd Aquarium.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John G. Shedd
Target entity description: John G. Shedd was a prominent Chicago businessman and philanthropist best known for funding and establishing the Shedd Aquarium.
  • A. Edmund G. Ross
    Edmund G. Ross was a 19th-century U.S. senator from Kansas best known for casting the decisive vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, an act later celebrated in John F. Kennedy’s "Profiles in Courage."
  • B. Charles Ranlett Flint
    Charles Ranlett Flint was an American financier and industrialist best known for orchestrating mergers that led to the creation of major corporations, including the company that became IBM.
  • C. John Galen Howard
    John Galen Howard was an influential American architect best known for shaping the early 20th-century architectural landscape of the University of California, Berkeley campus.
  • D. William R. Day
    William R. Day was an American diplomat, U.S. Secretary of State, and later Associate Justice of the Supreme Court who played a key role in ending the Spanish–American War.
  • E. William Burnet Tuthill
    William Burnet Tuthill was an American architect best known for designing New York City's renowned concert venue Carnegie Hall.
  • 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_69a2e7f1d1bc81909cf2dc9754a3c334 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2eec0e9dc81908c08b209ce5278ef completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:33 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac996309fc8190a177034f23807b2e completed March 7, 2026, 9:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac9a775230819092f738100573cc63 completed March 7, 2026, 9:36 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac9ad3bec48190be781ddceb7bc21e completed March 7, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:11 p.m.