Triple

T42812
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject American Society of Mechanical Engineers E842 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Alexander Lyman Holley
Alexander Lyman Holley was a prominent 19th-century American mechanical engineer and steel industry pioneer who helped introduce and advance the Bessemer process in the United States.
E43105 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: Alexander Lyman Holley | Statement: [American Society of Mechanical Engineers, foundedBy, Alexander Lyman Holley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexander Lyman Holley
Context triple: [American Society of Mechanical Engineers, foundedBy, Alexander Lyman Holley]
  • A. Elihu Thomson
    Elihu Thomson was a pioneering electrical engineer and inventor whose work in power systems and lighting helped shape the early electrical industry and led to the formation of General Electric.
  • B. George Burroughs
    George Burroughs was a Puritan minister in colonial New England who was infamously executed for alleged witchcraft during the Salem witch trials.
  • C. Edward Nichols
    Edward Nichols was a physicist best known for founding the influential scientific journal Physical Review.
  • D. James Gamble Rogers
    James Gamble Rogers was an American architect best known for designing many of Yale University's Collegiate Gothic buildings in the early 20th century.
  • E. Frank B. Jewett
    Frank B. Jewett was an American electrical engineer and physicist who served as the first president of Bell Telephone Laboratories and played a major role in organizing U.S. scientific research during World War II.
  • 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: Alexander Lyman Holley
Triple: [American Society of Mechanical Engineers, foundedBy, Alexander Lyman Holley]
Generated description
Alexander Lyman Holley was a prominent 19th-century American mechanical engineer and steel industry pioneer who helped introduce and advance the Bessemer process in the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alexander Lyman Holley
Target entity description: Alexander Lyman Holley was a prominent 19th-century American mechanical engineer and steel industry pioneer who helped introduce and advance the Bessemer process in the United States.
  • A. Elihu Thomson
    Elihu Thomson was a pioneering electrical engineer and inventor whose work in power systems and lighting helped shape the early electrical industry and led to the formation of General Electric.
  • B. George Burroughs
    George Burroughs was a Puritan minister in colonial New England who was infamously executed for alleged witchcraft during the Salem witch trials.
  • C. Edward Nichols
    Edward Nichols was a physicist best known for founding the influential scientific journal Physical Review.
  • D. James Gamble Rogers
    James Gamble Rogers was an American architect best known for designing many of Yale University's Collegiate Gothic buildings in the early 20th century.
  • E. Frank B. Jewett
    Frank B. Jewett was an American electrical engineer and physicist who served as the first president of Bell Telephone Laboratories and played a major role in organizing U.S. scientific research during World War II.
  • 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_69a247a8f6c08190bac804906d62ed5a completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a24ae236548190bd225d125f23e6c7 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:54 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3d4dade1081909c73e2bbd9d99455 completed March 1, 2026, 5:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3d574e6248190b61804582a5b2f02 completed March 1, 2026, 5:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3d5da769081909db319846899a66a completed March 1, 2026, 5:59 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:46 a.m.