Triple

T662950
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pony Express E11796 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object William H. Russell
William H. Russell was a 19th-century American businessman best known as a co-founder of the Pony Express mail service.
 E84093 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: William H. Russell | Statement: [Pony Express, founder, William H. Russell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William H. Russell
Context triple: [Pony Express, founder, William H. Russell]
  • A. Emile Sherman
    Emile Sherman is an Australian film and television producer best known for co-producing the Academy Award–winning film "The King’s Speech" and co-founding the production company See-Saw Films.
  • B. John Nicholson
    John Nicholson was a British Army officer in colonial India renowned for his fierce leadership and pivotal role in suppressing the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
  • C. James T. Sutherland
    James T. Sutherland was a prominent Canadian hockey executive and historian who played a key role in organizing and promoting the sport, including helping to establish the Hockey Hall of Fame.
  • D. William Felton Russell
    William Felton Russell was an American professional basketball player and civil rights activist best known as the legendary Boston Celtics center who won 11 NBA championships and transformed defensive play in the sport.
  • E. Henry Gage
    Henry Gage was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 20th governor of California from 1899 to 1903.
  • 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: William H. Russell
Triple: [Pony Express, founder, William H. Russell]
Generated description
William H. Russell was a 19th-century American businessman best known as a co-founder of the Pony Express mail service.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William H. Russell
Target entity description: William H. Russell was a 19th-century American businessman best known as a co-founder of the Pony Express mail service.
  • A. Emile Sherman
    Emile Sherman is an Australian film and television producer best known for co-producing the Academy Award–winning film "The King’s Speech" and co-founding the production company See-Saw Films.
  • B. John Nicholson
    John Nicholson was a British Army officer in colonial India renowned for his fierce leadership and pivotal role in suppressing the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
  • C. James T. Sutherland
    James T. Sutherland was a prominent Canadian hockey executive and historian who played a key role in organizing and promoting the sport, including helping to establish the Hockey Hall of Fame.
  • D. William Felton Russell
    William Felton Russell was an American professional basketball player and civil rights activist best known as the legendary Boston Celtics center who won 11 NBA championships and transformed defensive play in the sport.
  • E. Henry Gage
    Henry Gage was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 20th governor of California from 1899 to 1903.
  • 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_69a4932862a0819098be659c814e4981 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49fd081e8819097f289961f5eff29 completed March 1, 2026, 8:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a5dc9b645881908c7d2d69aa2f44aa completed March 2, 2026, 6:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a5e63dbd488190a2cd3c241cc76465 completed March 2, 2026, 7:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a601c3b8f081908e821092ca9cfc82 completed March 2, 2026, 9:31 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.