Triple

T731681
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Barstow E14843 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object William Barstow Strong
William Barstow Strong was a prominent 19th-century American railroad executive who served as president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway during a major period of expansion.
E168756 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 Barstow Strong | Statement: [Barstow, namedAfter, William Barstow Strong]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Barstow Strong
Context triple: [Barstow, namedAfter, William Barstow Strong]
  • A. John P. Hale
    John P. Hale was a 19th-century American politician and outspoken anti-slavery advocate who served as a U.S. senator from New Hampshire.
  • B. William West Durant
    William West Durant was an American architect and developer best known for pioneering the rustic yet luxurious Adirondack Great Camp style in upstate New York during the late 19th century.
  • C. Alexander Cushing
    Alexander Cushing was an American lawyer and entrepreneur best known as the visionary founder who developed Squaw Valley into a major ski resort and host of the 1960 Winter Olympics.
  • D. Henry J. F. Brown
    Henry J. F. Brown was a naval officer who played a commanding role in the World War II Battle of Narvik.
  • E. Franklin Haven Sargent
    Franklin Haven Sargent was an American educator and theatrical innovator best known for establishing one of the first professional acting schools in the United States.
  • 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 Barstow Strong
Triple: [Barstow, namedAfter, William Barstow Strong]
Generated description
William Barstow Strong was a prominent 19th-century American railroad executive who served as president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway during a major period of expansion.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Barstow Strong
Target entity description: William Barstow Strong was a prominent 19th-century American railroad executive who served as president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway during a major period of expansion.
  • A. John P. Hale
    John P. Hale was a 19th-century American politician and outspoken anti-slavery advocate who served as a U.S. senator from New Hampshire.
  • B. William West Durant
    William West Durant was an American architect and developer best known for pioneering the rustic yet luxurious Adirondack Great Camp style in upstate New York during the late 19th century.
  • C. Alexander Cushing
    Alexander Cushing was an American lawyer and entrepreneur best known as the visionary founder who developed Squaw Valley into a major ski resort and host of the 1960 Winter Olympics.
  • D. Henry J. F. Brown
    Henry J. F. Brown was a naval officer who played a commanding role in the World War II Battle of Narvik.
  • E. Franklin Haven Sargent
    Franklin Haven Sargent was an American educator and theatrical innovator best known for establishing one of the first professional acting schools in the United States.
  • 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_69a4934d9930819099eed80096b0597d completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a5c40b6481909db9efd7310850b3 completed March 1, 2026, 8:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad15866b448190b20334eddca756eb completed March 8, 2026, 6:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad164d4cfc8190a1be23c814b6b18f completed March 8, 2026, 6:25 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad16a5c76c8190a0bb3ccf5557b1b0 completed March 8, 2026, 6:26 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:37 p.m.