Triple

T7848326
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ames E181977 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Oakes Ames
Oakes Ames was a 19th-century American congressman and industrialist best known for his pivotal role in financing and promoting the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad and his involvement in the Crédit Mobilier scandal.
E698675 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: Oakes Ames | Statement: [Ames, hasNotableBearer, Oakes Ames]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Oakes Ames
Context triple: [Ames, hasNotableBearer, Oakes Ames]
  • A. Joseph Sweetman Ames
    Joseph Sweetman Ames was an American physicist, educator, and longtime Johns Hopkins University president who played a key role in early U.S. aeronautics research and leadership of NACA, NASA’s predecessor.
  • B. Edward Levi Ames
    Edward Levi Ames was a mountaineer known for being among the climbers who achieved the first recorded ascent of the Lagginhorn in the Swiss Alps.
  • C. John Cotton Dana
    John Cotton Dana was an influential American librarian, museum director, and progressive cultural leader known for modernizing libraries and founding the Newark Museum of Art.
  • D. Joel Sayre
    Joel Sayre was an American novelist, journalist, and screenwriter best known for co-writing the classic 1939 adventure film "Gunga Din."
  • E. John Boies Tileston
    John Boies Tileston was an early mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of Mount Lyell, the highest peak in Yosemite National Park.
  • 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: Oakes Ames
Triple: [Ames, hasNotableBearer, Oakes Ames]
Generated description
Oakes Ames was a 19th-century American congressman and industrialist best known for his pivotal role in financing and promoting the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad and his involvement in the Crédit Mobilier scandal.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Oakes Ames
Target entity description: Oakes Ames was a 19th-century American congressman and industrialist best known for his pivotal role in financing and promoting the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad and his involvement in the Crédit Mobilier scandal.
  • A. Joseph Sweetman Ames
    Joseph Sweetman Ames was an American physicist, educator, and longtime Johns Hopkins University president who played a key role in early U.S. aeronautics research and leadership of NACA, NASA’s predecessor.
  • B. Edward Levi Ames
    Edward Levi Ames was a mountaineer known for being among the climbers who achieved the first recorded ascent of the Lagginhorn in the Swiss Alps.
  • C. John Cotton Dana
    John Cotton Dana was an influential American librarian, museum director, and progressive cultural leader known for modernizing libraries and founding the Newark Museum of Art.
  • D. Joel Sayre
    Joel Sayre was an American novelist, journalist, and screenwriter best known for co-writing the classic 1939 adventure film "Gunga Din."
  • E. John Boies Tileston
    John Boies Tileston was an early mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of Mount Lyell, the highest peak in Yosemite National Park.
  • 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_69ca82869ee08190b8f9040dbc2c0467 completed March 30, 2026, 2:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb18e7f5988190808ae4dcfbc06991 completed March 31, 2026, 12:44 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cb5afbb02481909008eb295c4825c1 completed March 31, 2026, 5:26 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cb5def38e88190864d84abd7959aa3 completed March 31, 2026, 5:38 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cb766e41fc8190a08f07d04774053a completed March 31, 2026, 7:23 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 4:50 p.m.