Triple

T634417
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject United Fruit Company E15991 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Andrew W. Preston
Andrew W. Preston was an American businessman best known as a pioneering figure in the tropical fruit trade and a key architect of the modern banana industry.
 E220310 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: Andrew W. Preston | Statement: [United Fruit Company, foundedBy, Andrew W. Preston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Andrew W. Preston
Context triple: [United Fruit Company, foundedBy, Andrew W. Preston]
  • A. Andrew D. Martin
    Andrew D. Martin is an American political scientist and academic administrator who serves as the chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis.
  • B. Jared C. Nicholson
    Jared C. Nicholson is an American politician and attorney who serves as the mayor of Lynn, Massachusetts.
  • C. Bruce T. Draine
    Bruce T. Draine is an American astrophysicist renowned for his influential work on interstellar dust and the interstellar medium.
  • D. Michael P. Brenner
    Michael P. Brenner is an American applied mathematician and physicist known for his influential work in fluid dynamics and complex systems.
  • E. Eric M. Taylor
    Eric M. Taylor was a notable figure significant enough in his community or field to have the Eric M. Taylor Center named in his honor.
  • 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: Andrew W. Preston
Triple: [United Fruit Company, foundedBy, Andrew W. Preston]
Generated description
Andrew W. Preston was an American businessman best known as a pioneering figure in the tropical fruit trade and a key architect of the modern banana industry.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Andrew W. Preston
Target entity description: Andrew W. Preston was an American businessman best known as a pioneering figure in the tropical fruit trade and a key architect of the modern banana industry.
  • A. Andrew D. Martin
    Andrew D. Martin is an American political scientist and academic administrator who serves as the chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis.
  • B. Jared C. Nicholson
    Jared C. Nicholson is an American politician and attorney who serves as the mayor of Lynn, Massachusetts.
  • C. Bruce T. Draine
    Bruce T. Draine is an American astrophysicist renowned for his influential work on interstellar dust and the interstellar medium.
  • D. Michael P. Brenner
    Michael P. Brenner is an American applied mathematician and physicist known for his influential work in fluid dynamics and complex systems.
  • E. Eric M. Taylor
    Eric M. Taylor was a notable figure significant enough in his community or field to have the Eric M. Taylor Center named in his honor.
  • 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_69a4935c131c8190a5378c6bf101e8cc completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49ee4ee8481908ad45405e3f3835c completed March 1, 2026, 8:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adfb77a8908190bc3d5eb1b8ab3a03 completed March 8, 2026, 10:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adfbeab7cc8190a2293ed839b87286 completed March 8, 2026, 10:44 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adfd713c4081908a2fae2fada76dae completed March 8, 2026, 10:51 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:35 p.m.