Triple

T6197672
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject New York and Harlem Railroad E138548 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object John Mason
John Mason was a 19th-century American financier and railroad pioneer best known for helping establish early rail transport in New York State.
E574933 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: John Mason | Statement: [New York and Harlem Railroad, founder, John Mason]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Mason
Context triple: [New York and Harlem Railroad, founder, John Mason]
  • A. John Mason
    John Mason was a 17th-century English colonial military leader in New England, best known for his pivotal and controversial role in the Pequot War.
  • B. John Mason
    John Mason is the child of Sir Joseph Mason, likely a member of a family with a British knighthood background.
  • C. John Alden Mason
    John Alden Mason was an American anthropologist and linguist known for his extensive fieldwork and documentation of Indigenous languages and cultures of the Americas.
  • D. William Mason
    William Mason was an 18th-century English poet, clergyman, and close associate of Thomas Gray, known for his influential role in literary and artistic circles.
  • E. John Mason Good
    John Mason Good was an English physician, scholar, and prolific writer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, known for his works in medical literature, translation, and religious scholarship.
  • 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: John Mason
Triple: [New York and Harlem Railroad, founder, John Mason]
Generated description
John Mason was a 19th-century American financier and railroad pioneer best known for helping establish early rail transport in New York State.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Mason
Target entity description: John Mason was a 19th-century American financier and railroad pioneer best known for helping establish early rail transport in New York State.
  • A. John Mason
    John Mason was a 17th-century English colonial military leader in New England, best known for his pivotal and controversial role in the Pequot War.
  • B. John Mason
    John Mason is the child of Sir Joseph Mason, likely a member of a family with a British knighthood background.
  • C. John Alden Mason
    John Alden Mason was an American anthropologist and linguist known for his extensive fieldwork and documentation of Indigenous languages and cultures of the Americas.
  • D. William Mason
    William Mason was an 18th-century English poet, clergyman, and close associate of Thomas Gray, known for his influential role in literary and artistic circles.
  • E. John Mason Good
    John Mason Good was an English physician, scholar, and prolific writer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, known for his works in medical literature, translation, and religious scholarship.
  • 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_69c008ab9b3081908a11b2c744838435 completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c06251b47881909bd8d2ea37541959 completed March 22, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c16f2a40a88190847f607a6e2c5f4e completed March 23, 2026, 4:49 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c1d232ab1881909cc3014beb664446 completed March 23, 2026, 11:52 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c1d2c532988190a98f615638987159 completed March 23, 2026, 11:54 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:20 p.m.