Triple
T6130772
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Kinzie Street Railroad Bridge |
E136711
|
entity |
| Predicate | engineer |
P184
|
FINISHED |
| Object | John Alexander Low Waddell |
E174752
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: John Alexander Low Waddell | Statement: [Kinzie Street Railroad Bridge, engineer, John Alexander Low Waddell]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Alexander Low Waddell Context triple: [Kinzie Street Railroad Bridge, engineer, John Alexander Low Waddell]
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A.
J. A. L. Waddell
chosen
J. A. L. Waddell was a prominent American civil engineer and bridge designer renowned for his innovative movable bridge designs in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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B.
Alfred Moore Waddell
Alfred Moore Waddell was a North Carolina lawyer, Confederate veteran, and white supremacist politician who became notorious for leading the violent 1898 coup in Wilmington that overthrew the city’s multiracial government.
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C.
Harvey W. Loomis
Harvey W. Loomis was an American composer and music educator active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his songs, choral works, and contributions to musical pedagogy.
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D.
Walter Wheeler Cook
Walter Wheeler Cook was an influential American legal scholar and educator known as a leading figure in the legal realism movement.
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E.
Walter Clark
Walter Clark is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as law, politics, and the arts.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69c008a0a37c81908e5b4f879158afb3 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c05c4de9c48190b98f67a6251ec1df |
completed | March 22, 2026, 9:17 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c135d080808190938e3a1095080850 |
completed | March 23, 2026, 12:45 p.m. |
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:15 p.m.