Triple

T488607
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mellon Institute of Industrial Research E9935 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Richard B. Mellon
Richard B. Mellon was an American banker, industrialist, and philanthropist from the prominent Mellon family who played a major role in early 20th-century finance and industry.
E97174 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: Richard B. Mellon | Statement: [Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, foundedBy, Richard B. Mellon]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard B. Mellon
Context triple: [Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, foundedBy, Richard B. Mellon]
  • A. Andrew W. Mellon
    Andrew W. Mellon was an American financier, industrialist, and philanthropist who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and became a major patron of the arts.
  • B. Charles Stewart Mott
    Charles Stewart Mott was an American industrialist and philanthropist best known as an early partner in General Motors and a major benefactor of civic and educational causes.
  • C. Thomas M. Carnegie
    Thomas M. Carnegie was an American industrialist and the younger brother and business partner of Andrew Carnegie, who played a key role in building the Carnegie steel empire in the late 19th century.
  • D. Edward Mead Johnson
    Edward Mead Johnson was an American businessman and co-founder of the healthcare company Johnson & Johnson, later known for establishing a major infant nutrition business.
  • E. William Rockefeller
    William Rockefeller was an American businessman and co-founder of Standard Oil, instrumental in building one of the largest oil monopolies of the late 19th century.
  • 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: Richard B. Mellon
Triple: [Mellon Institute of Industrial Research, foundedBy, Richard B. Mellon]
Generated description
Richard B. Mellon was an American banker, industrialist, and philanthropist from the prominent Mellon family who played a major role in early 20th-century finance and industry.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard B. Mellon
Target entity description: Richard B. Mellon was an American banker, industrialist, and philanthropist from the prominent Mellon family who played a major role in early 20th-century finance and industry.
  • A. Andrew W. Mellon
    Andrew W. Mellon was an American financier, industrialist, and philanthropist who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and became a major patron of the arts.
  • B. Charles Stewart Mott
    Charles Stewart Mott was an American industrialist and philanthropist best known as an early partner in General Motors and a major benefactor of civic and educational causes.
  • C. Thomas M. Carnegie
    Thomas M. Carnegie was an American industrialist and the younger brother and business partner of Andrew Carnegie, who played a key role in building the Carnegie steel empire in the late 19th century.
  • D. Edward Mead Johnson
    Edward Mead Johnson was an American businessman and co-founder of the healthcare company Johnson & Johnson, later known for establishing a major infant nutrition business.
  • E. William Rockefeller
    William Rockefeller was an American businessman and co-founder of Standard Oil, instrumental in building one of the largest oil monopolies of the late 19th century.
  • 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_69a2e802e2908190ab17c9479e0b6412 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2f0df764481909811d9483dfbc4aa completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a76d6571588190b1f328e7b10b627c completed March 3, 2026, 11:23 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a78ce2d3608190af4f38768b6ef95e completed March 4, 2026, 1:37 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a78d84ccd08190aaa86a0adbd993a0 completed March 4, 2026, 1:40 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.