Triple

T6423224
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ida Tarbell E127994 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The History of the Standard Oil Company
The History of the Standard Oil Company is a landmark work of investigative journalism that exposed the monopolistic practices of John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil and helped spur early 20th-century antitrust reforms in the United States.
E592257 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: The History of the Standard Oil Company | Statement: [Ida Tarbell, notableWork, The History of the Standard Oil Company]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The History of the Standard Oil Company
Context triple: [Ida Tarbell, notableWork, The History of the Standard Oil Company]
  • A. Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
    "Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr." is a comprehensive biographical book that chronicles the life, business empire, and legacy of American oil magnate John D. Rockefeller.
  • B. The Control of Industry
    "The Control of Industry" is an influential economic and political treatise by British Labour politician and economist Hugh Dalton examining how industrial production should be organized and regulated in a modern state.
  • C. Standard Oil
    Standard Oil was a dominant late-19th and early-20th century American oil trust that became a symbol of industrial monopoly and led to landmark antitrust regulation.
  • D. Reports on the control of transportation facilities by industrial combinations
    "Reports on the control of transportation facilities by industrial combinations" is an investigative government report analyzing how large industrial trusts influenced and dominated key transportation systems in the United States.
  • E. Standard Oil of New York
    Standard Oil of New York was a major regional successor company formed from the breakup of John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil trust, later evolving into part of the modern ExxonMobil corporation.
  • 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: The History of the Standard Oil Company
Triple: [Ida Tarbell, notableWork, The History of the Standard Oil Company]
Generated description
The History of the Standard Oil Company is a landmark work of investigative journalism that exposed the monopolistic practices of John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil and helped spur early 20th-century antitrust reforms in the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The History of the Standard Oil Company
Target entity description: The History of the Standard Oil Company is a landmark work of investigative journalism that exposed the monopolistic practices of John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil and helped spur early 20th-century antitrust reforms in the United States.
  • A. Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
    "Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr." is a comprehensive biographical book that chronicles the life, business empire, and legacy of American oil magnate John D. Rockefeller.
  • B. The Control of Industry
    "The Control of Industry" is an influential economic and political treatise by British Labour politician and economist Hugh Dalton examining how industrial production should be organized and regulated in a modern state.
  • C. Standard Oil
    Standard Oil was a dominant late-19th and early-20th century American oil trust that became a symbol of industrial monopoly and led to landmark antitrust regulation.
  • D. Reports on the control of transportation facilities by industrial combinations
    "Reports on the control of transportation facilities by industrial combinations" is an investigative government report analyzing how large industrial trusts influenced and dominated key transportation systems in the United States.
  • E. Standard Oil of New York
    Standard Oil of New York was a major regional successor company formed from the breakup of John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil trust, later evolving into part of the modern ExxonMobil corporation.
  • 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_69c00838de888190af2eec0b80495efa completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c0690576c48190b5db5464eacc9de3 completed March 22, 2026, 10:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c640dc01188190b67290801aae0d6c completed March 27, 2026, 8:33 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c642d95c1481909c0bececbcef2929 completed March 27, 2026, 8:42 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c643579a388190a2b07669539bd9b7 completed March 27, 2026, 8:44 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:43 p.m.