Triple

T539860
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Marsh Rice E12605 entity
Predicate alsoKnownAs P39 FINISHED
Object William M. Rice
William M. Rice was an American businessman and philanthropist best known as the founder and namesake of Rice University in Houston, Texas.
 E275236 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: William M. Rice | Statement: [William Marsh Rice, alsoKnownAs, William M. Rice]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William M. Rice
Context triple: [William Marsh Rice, alsoKnownAs, William M. Rice]
  • A. William E. Conway Jr.
    William E. Conway Jr. is an American billionaire businessman and investor best known as a co-founder and longtime leader of the global private equity firm The Carlyle Group.
  • B. William F. Raynolds
    William F. Raynolds was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and explorer known for his surveying and exploratory expeditions in North America and beyond.
  • C. James T. Conway
    James T. Conway is a retired four-star U.S. Marine Corps general who later served as the 34th Commandant of the Marine Corps.
  • D. Robert W. Hunt
    Robert W. Hunt was an American engineer and industrialist known for his influential role in the development of the U.S. mining and metallurgical industries and leadership in professional engineering organizations.
  • E. Alan S. Boyd
    Alan S. Boyd was an American lawyer and public official who became the first U.S. Secretary of Transportation, helping to shape national transportation policy in the late 1960s.
  • 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: William M. Rice
Triple: [William Marsh Rice, alsoKnownAs, William M. Rice]
Generated description
William M. Rice was an American businessman and philanthropist best known as the founder and namesake of Rice University in Houston, Texas.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William M. Rice
Target entity description: William M. Rice was an American businessman and philanthropist best known as the founder and namesake of Rice University in Houston, Texas.
  • A. William E. Conway Jr.
    William E. Conway Jr. is an American billionaire businessman and investor best known as a co-founder and longtime leader of the global private equity firm The Carlyle Group.
  • B. William F. Raynolds
    William F. Raynolds was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and explorer known for his surveying and exploratory expeditions in North America and beyond.
  • C. James T. Conway
    James T. Conway is a retired four-star U.S. Marine Corps general who later served as the 34th Commandant of the Marine Corps.
  • D. Robert W. Hunt
    Robert W. Hunt was an American engineer and industrialist known for his influential role in the development of the U.S. mining and metallurgical industries and leadership in professional engineering organizations.
  • E. Alan S. Boyd
    Alan S. Boyd was an American lawyer and public official who became the first U.S. Secretary of Transportation, helping to shape national transportation policy in the late 1960s.
  • 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_69a49334226c81908b0ea1689ef6aa3f completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4985e51908190a34aa82ea9dbee1e completed March 1, 2026, 7:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af2b32d2108190a7da1653793e5d51 completed March 9, 2026, 8:18 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af521396788190b10889a60c4060a8 completed March 9, 2026, 11:04 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af522c06f0819097df4b11dfaf14d2 completed March 9, 2026, 11:05 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:32 p.m.