Triple

T552271
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Western Electric E11865 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Elisha Gray
Elisha Gray was a 19th-century American electrical engineer and inventor, best known as a pioneer in telegraphy and early telephone technology.
 E69110 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: Elisha Gray | Statement: [Western Electric, foundedBy, Elisha Gray]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Elisha Gray
Context triple: [Western Electric, foundedBy, Elisha Gray]
  • A. Alexander Graham Bell
    Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born inventor, scientist, and teacher of the deaf best known for inventing and patenting the first practical telephone.
  • B. Alexander Melville Bell
    Alexander Melville Bell was a 19th-century British-Canadian phonetician and educator best known for his work on visible speech and as the father of telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell.
  • C. Edward Nichols
    Edward Nichols was a physicist best known for founding the influential scientific journal Physical Review.
  • D. John W. Draper
    John W. Draper was a 19th-century American scientist, philosopher, and historian known for his pioneering work in photochemistry and early contributions to scientific institutions.
  • E. Lee de Forest
    Lee de Forest was an American inventor and radio pioneer best known for creating the Audion vacuum tube, a key development in early electronics and wireless communication.
  • 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: Elisha Gray
Triple: [Western Electric, foundedBy, Elisha Gray]
Generated description
Elisha Gray was a 19th-century American electrical engineer and inventor, best known as a pioneer in telegraphy and early telephone technology.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Elisha Gray
Target entity description: Elisha Gray was a 19th-century American electrical engineer and inventor, best known as a pioneer in telegraphy and early telephone technology.
  • A. Alexander Graham Bell
    Alexander Graham Bell was a Scottish-born inventor, scientist, and teacher of the deaf best known for inventing and patenting the first practical telephone.
  • B. Alexander Melville Bell
    Alexander Melville Bell was a 19th-century British-Canadian phonetician and educator best known for his work on visible speech and as the father of telephone inventor Alexander Graham Bell.
  • C. Edward Nichols
    Edward Nichols was a physicist best known for founding the influential scientific journal Physical Review.
  • D. John W. Draper
    John W. Draper was a 19th-century American scientist, philosopher, and historian known for his pioneering work in photochemistry and early contributions to scientific institutions.
  • E. Lee de Forest
    Lee de Forest was an American inventor and radio pioneer best known for creating the Audion vacuum tube, a key development in early electronics and wireless communication.
  • 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_69a4932941d08190815efd422f0b4ca7 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a499047bd4819089ca8345f1b6e46c completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a4e3f755288190bcbf798cd52f84e1 completed March 2, 2026, 1:12 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4e454a0288190a7056b206341519a completed March 2, 2026, 1:13 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4e4d7bd108190a386a40c4b739d11 completed March 2, 2026, 1:16 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:32 p.m.