Triple

T5139829
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus E115916 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Ringling brothers
The Ringling brothers were a family of American circus impresarios who built one of the most famous and influential traveling circuses in the world.
E495708 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: Ringling brothers | Statement: [Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, foundedBy, Ringling brothers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ringling brothers
Context triple: [Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, foundedBy, Ringling brothers]
  • A. Niland brothers
    The Niland brothers were four American siblings from New York whose World War II service and family tragedy inspired the story behind the film "Saving Private Ryan."
  • B. Guggenheim family
    The Guggenheim family is a prominent American family known for its vast mining and industrial fortune and its extensive philanthropic support of the arts, education, and scientific research.
  • C. Curiatii brothers
    The Curiatii brothers were a legendary trio of Alban warriors in Roman mythology who fought a famous duel against the Roman Horatii to decide a conflict between Alba Longa and Rome.
  • D. Lewis Ginter
    Lewis Ginter was a prominent 19th-century Richmond businessman and philanthropist best known for his major contributions to the city’s development and for founding what became the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden.
  • E. Fromet Gugenheim
    Fromet Gugenheim was the wife of the influential German-Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and a member of a prominent Jewish family in 18th-century Germany.
  • 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: Ringling brothers
Triple: [Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, foundedBy, Ringling brothers]
Generated description
The Ringling brothers were a family of American circus impresarios who built one of the most famous and influential traveling circuses in the world.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ringling brothers
Target entity description: The Ringling brothers were a family of American circus impresarios who built one of the most famous and influential traveling circuses in the world.
  • A. Niland brothers
    The Niland brothers were four American siblings from New York whose World War II service and family tragedy inspired the story behind the film "Saving Private Ryan."
  • B. Guggenheim family
    The Guggenheim family is a prominent American family known for its vast mining and industrial fortune and its extensive philanthropic support of the arts, education, and scientific research.
  • C. Curiatii brothers
    The Curiatii brothers were a legendary trio of Alban warriors in Roman mythology who fought a famous duel against the Roman Horatii to decide a conflict between Alba Longa and Rome.
  • D. Lewis Ginter
    Lewis Ginter was a prominent 19th-century Richmond businessman and philanthropist best known for his major contributions to the city’s development and for founding what became the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden.
  • E. Fromet Gugenheim
    Fromet Gugenheim was the wife of the influential German-Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and a member of a prominent Jewish family in 18th-century Germany.
  • 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_69bd44459a988190a772a5c2ec6a1965 completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd787ce7fc8190844b6078755cddad completed March 20, 2026, 4:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bec4d637f48190b825bc21d3776307 completed March 21, 2026, 4:18 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bec5912be08190a99d7b61acdfec93 completed March 21, 2026, 4:21 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bec67416c48190aed61c9f37bd718a completed March 21, 2026, 4:25 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:43 p.m.