Triple

T7007125
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Eleanor Clay Ford E162483 entity
Predicate uncle P8496 FINISHED
Object J. L. Hudson
J. L. Hudson was a prominent Detroit businessman best known as the founder of the J. L. Hudson Company department store, which became one of the largest and most influential retail establishments in the United States.
E635736 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: J. L. Hudson | Statement: [Eleanor Clay Ford, uncle, J. L. Hudson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J. L. Hudson
Context triple: [Eleanor Clay Ford, uncle, J. L. Hudson]
  • A. J. C. Stearns
    J. C. Stearns was one of the contributing authors to the influential Franck Report on the implications of nuclear weapons during the Manhattan Project era.
  • B. John Wanamaker
    John Wanamaker was a pioneering American merchant and founder of one of the first department stores in the United States, who also served as U.S. Postmaster General.
  • C. Rodman Wanamaker
    Rodman Wanamaker was an American businessman and department store magnate whose support for professional golf helped lead to the creation of the PGA Championship and its iconic Wanamaker Trophy.
  • D. Marshall Field Jr.
    Marshall Field Jr. was an American businessman and publisher, best known as the heir to the Marshall Field department store fortune and for his involvement in Chicago civic and media enterprises.
  • E. Fred F. Sears
    Fred F. Sears was an American film director and actor best known for his prolific work on low-budget genre films in the 1950s.
  • 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: J. L. Hudson
Triple: [Eleanor Clay Ford, uncle, J. L. Hudson]
Generated description
J. L. Hudson was a prominent Detroit businessman best known as the founder of the J. L. Hudson Company department store, which became one of the largest and most influential retail establishments in the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J. L. Hudson
Target entity description: J. L. Hudson was a prominent Detroit businessman best known as the founder of the J. L. Hudson Company department store, which became one of the largest and most influential retail establishments in the United States.
  • A. J. C. Stearns
    J. C. Stearns was one of the contributing authors to the influential Franck Report on the implications of nuclear weapons during the Manhattan Project era.
  • B. John Wanamaker
    John Wanamaker was a pioneering American merchant and founder of one of the first department stores in the United States, who also served as U.S. Postmaster General.
  • C. Rodman Wanamaker
    Rodman Wanamaker was an American businessman and department store magnate whose support for professional golf helped lead to the creation of the PGA Championship and its iconic Wanamaker Trophy.
  • D. Marshall Field Jr.
    Marshall Field Jr. was an American businessman and publisher, best known as the heir to the Marshall Field department store fortune and for his involvement in Chicago civic and media enterprises.
  • E. Fred F. Sears
    Fred F. Sears was an American film director and actor best known for his prolific work on low-budget genre films in the 1950s.
  • 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_69c6885928148190ae31909fbb5e9849 completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6dc35cb848190a839919021efce81 completed March 27, 2026, 7:36 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c76a43c3a081909b9150d36ba107f5 completed March 28, 2026, 5:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c76b3c87708190a04c48c41bb9904b completed March 28, 2026, 5:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c76bb8c7788190bf54b805f651e28e completed March 28, 2026, 5:48 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:33 p.m.