Triple

T704316
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject NCR Corporation E14066 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object John Henry Patterson
John Henry Patterson was an American industrialist and business pioneer best known for building the National Cash Register Company (NCR) into a major corporation and for innovating modern sales and management techniques.
E89450 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: John Henry Patterson | Statement: [NCR Corporation, foundedBy, John Henry Patterson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Henry Patterson
Context triple: [NCR Corporation, foundedBy, John Henry Patterson]
  • A. Allan Pinkerton
    Allan Pinkerton was a 19th-century Scottish-American detective and spy who founded one of the first and most influential private detective agencies in the United States.
  • B. Albert West
    Albert West was an associate of Mahatma Gandhi and an early supporter of his work in South Africa, contributing to Gandhi’s newspaper Indian Opinion and assisting in the development of the Phoenix Settlement.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Albert DeSilver
    Albert DeSilver was an American lawyer and civil liberties advocate best known as one of the founding figures of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
  • E. Alfred Drake
    Alfred Drake was a prominent American actor and baritone best known for originating leading roles in landmark mid-20th-century Broadway musicals.
  • 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: John Henry Patterson
Triple: [NCR Corporation, foundedBy, John Henry Patterson]
Generated description
John Henry Patterson was an American industrialist and business pioneer best known for building the National Cash Register Company (NCR) into a major corporation and for innovating modern sales and management techniques.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Henry Patterson
Target entity description: John Henry Patterson was an American industrialist and business pioneer best known for building the National Cash Register Company (NCR) into a major corporation and for innovating modern sales and management techniques.
  • A. Allan Pinkerton
    Allan Pinkerton was a 19th-century Scottish-American detective and spy who founded one of the first and most influential private detective agencies in the United States.
  • B. Albert West
    Albert West was an associate of Mahatma Gandhi and an early supporter of his work in South Africa, contributing to Gandhi’s newspaper Indian Opinion and assisting in the development of the Phoenix Settlement.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Albert DeSilver
    Albert DeSilver was an American lawyer and civil liberties advocate best known as one of the founding figures of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
  • E. Alfred Drake
    Alfred Drake was a prominent American actor and baritone best known for originating leading roles in landmark mid-20th-century Broadway musicals.
  • 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_69a493494ec48190ae6751683625a9ba completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a533fa788190bba0f55655469c46 completed March 1, 2026, 8:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a654dcbb688190ab997a3d31ec729a completed March 3, 2026, 3:26 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a65b3535b48190be1986aed3dfe48a completed March 3, 2026, 3:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a65ba4d610819095bf3d166c038c8f completed March 3, 2026, 3:55 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.