Triple

T4848721
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject ITT Corporation E108357 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Sosthenes Behn
Sosthenes Behn was an American businessman and telecommunications pioneer best known for building a global phone empire and co-founding ITT Corporation.
E473525 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: Sosthenes Behn | Statement: [ITT Corporation, foundedBy, Sosthenes Behn]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sosthenes Behn
Context triple: [ITT Corporation, foundedBy, Sosthenes Behn]
  • A. Aphra Behn
    Aphra Behn was a pioneering 17th-century English playwright, poet, and novelist, often regarded as one of the first professional female writers in English literature.
  • B. John Dryden Kuser
    John Dryden Kuser was an American politician and socialite from a prominent New Jersey family, known in part for his brief and troubled early marriage to philanthropist Brooke Astor.
  • C. Elizabeth Barry
    Elizabeth Barry was a celebrated 17th-century English stage actress renowned for her powerful tragic performances during the Restoration era.
  • D. Talbot Pepys
    Talbot Pepys was a 17th-century English lawyer and politician, best known as a member of the prominent Pepys family that included the diarist Samuel Pepys.
  • E. Charlotte Pepys
    Charlotte Pepys was a member of the Pepys family, likely a relative or descendant of the famed English diarist Samuel Pepys, known primarily through genealogical and historical references.
  • 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: Sosthenes Behn
Triple: [ITT Corporation, foundedBy, Sosthenes Behn]
Generated description
Sosthenes Behn was an American businessman and telecommunications pioneer best known for building a global phone empire and co-founding ITT Corporation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sosthenes Behn
Target entity description: Sosthenes Behn was an American businessman and telecommunications pioneer best known for building a global phone empire and co-founding ITT Corporation.
  • A. Aphra Behn
    Aphra Behn was a pioneering 17th-century English playwright, poet, and novelist, often regarded as one of the first professional female writers in English literature.
  • B. John Dryden Kuser
    John Dryden Kuser was an American politician and socialite from a prominent New Jersey family, known in part for his brief and troubled early marriage to philanthropist Brooke Astor.
  • C. Elizabeth Barry
    Elizabeth Barry was a celebrated 17th-century English stage actress renowned for her powerful tragic performances during the Restoration era.
  • D. Talbot Pepys
    Talbot Pepys was a 17th-century English lawyer and politician, best known as a member of the prominent Pepys family that included the diarist Samuel Pepys.
  • E. Charlotte Pepys
    Charlotte Pepys was a member of the Pepys family, likely a relative or descendant of the famed English diarist Samuel Pepys, known primarily through genealogical and historical references.
  • 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_69bd4409b264819085ab855f3eb5381a completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6d1c5594819094fe021d7717032d completed March 20, 2026, 3:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be5cdafb3481908594ae883c6e9872 completed March 21, 2026, 8:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be5d4f2f908190b305996875f1f956 completed March 21, 2026, 8:56 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be5dcbb58c8190bbcf75c570720ad6 completed March 21, 2026, 8:58 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:25 p.m.