Triple
T6221682
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Cannon Mills Company |
E139129
|
entity |
| Predicate | foundedBy |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
James William Cannon
James William Cannon was an American industrialist and textile magnate who built one of the South’s largest cotton mill enterprises in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
|
E578794
|
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: James William Cannon | Statement: [Cannon Mills Company, foundedBy, James William Cannon]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James William Cannon Context triple: [Cannon Mills Company, foundedBy, James William Cannon]
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A.
James R. Browning
James R. Browning was a prominent American judge who served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, including a long tenure as its chief judge.
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B.
William Drinkard
William Drinkard is a gospel singer best known as a member of the influential family group The Drinkard Singers, which helped shape mid-20th-century American gospel music.
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C.
Jack Frederick Kilpatrick
Jack Frederick Kilpatrick was an American composer and musicologist known for his work in Native American music and contributions to ethnomusicology.
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D.
John H. Ferguson
John H. Ferguson was the Louisiana judge whose ruling upholding racial segregation in the Plessy v. Ferguson case led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark “separate but equal” decision.
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E.
William Wellington Cairns
William Wellington Cairns was a 19th-century British colonial administrator who served as Governor of Queensland, after whom the Australian city of Cairns is named.
- 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: James William Cannon Triple: [Cannon Mills Company, foundedBy, James William Cannon]
Generated description
James William Cannon was an American industrialist and textile magnate who built one of the South’s largest cotton mill enterprises in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James William Cannon Target entity description: James William Cannon was an American industrialist and textile magnate who built one of the South’s largest cotton mill enterprises in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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A.
James R. Browning
James R. Browning was a prominent American judge who served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, including a long tenure as its chief judge.
-
B.
William Drinkard
William Drinkard is a gospel singer best known as a member of the influential family group The Drinkard Singers, which helped shape mid-20th-century American gospel music.
-
C.
Jack Frederick Kilpatrick
Jack Frederick Kilpatrick was an American composer and musicologist known for his work in Native American music and contributions to ethnomusicology.
-
D.
John H. Ferguson
John H. Ferguson was the Louisiana judge whose ruling upholding racial segregation in the Plessy v. Ferguson case led to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark “separate but equal” decision.
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E.
William Wellington Cairns
William Wellington Cairns was a 19th-century British colonial administrator who served as Governor of Queensland, after whom the Australian city of Cairns is named.
- 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_69c008aecb0c81909984b48f733ce8ae |
completed | March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c062bddb688190add53172a7445d01 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 9:44 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c20dc349b481909ce369a82fa96412 |
completed | March 24, 2026, 4:06 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69c214980bbc8190b188b3c821ea13ea |
completed | March 24, 2026, 4:35 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69c2157d43048190a0376cdc9024c5f9 |
completed | March 24, 2026, 4:39 a.m. |
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:22 p.m.