Triple

T787283
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dow Chemical Company E16832 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Herbert Henry Dow
Herbert Henry Dow was an American chemical industrialist and inventor who founded the Dow Chemical Company and pioneered modern methods of extracting and producing chemicals.
E102453 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: Herbert Henry Dow | Statement: [Dow Chemical Company, foundedBy, Herbert Henry Dow]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herbert Henry Dow
Context triple: [Dow Chemical Company, foundedBy, Herbert Henry Dow]
  • A. Elbert H. Gary
    Elbert H. Gary was an American lawyer, judge, and industrialist best known as the founding chairman and longtime leader of U.S. Steel, one of the world’s largest steel producers in the early 20th century.
  • B. Arnold O. Beckman
    Arnold O. Beckman was an American chemist, inventor, and philanthropist best known for developing the pH meter and founding Beckman Instruments, which significantly advanced scientific instrumentation.
  • C. Pierre S. du Pont
    Pierre S. du Pont was an American industrialist and executive who led the DuPont Company and General Motors, playing a major role in early 20th-century corporate and architectural development.
  • D. Éleuthère Irénée du Pont
    Éleuthère Irénée du Pont was a French-American chemist and industrialist who founded the DuPont gunpowder company, which grew into one of the largest and most influential chemical corporations in the United States.
  • E. Elihu Thomson
    Elihu Thomson was a pioneering electrical engineer and inventor whose work in power systems and lighting helped shape the early electrical industry and led to the formation of General Electric.
  • 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: Herbert Henry Dow
Triple: [Dow Chemical Company, foundedBy, Herbert Henry Dow]
Generated description
Herbert Henry Dow was an American chemical industrialist and inventor who founded the Dow Chemical Company and pioneered modern methods of extracting and producing chemicals.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herbert Henry Dow
Target entity description: Herbert Henry Dow was an American chemical industrialist and inventor who founded the Dow Chemical Company and pioneered modern methods of extracting and producing chemicals.
  • A. Elbert H. Gary
    Elbert H. Gary was an American lawyer, judge, and industrialist best known as the founding chairman and longtime leader of U.S. Steel, one of the world’s largest steel producers in the early 20th century.
  • B. Arnold O. Beckman
    Arnold O. Beckman was an American chemist, inventor, and philanthropist best known for developing the pH meter and founding Beckman Instruments, which significantly advanced scientific instrumentation.
  • C. Pierre S. du Pont
    Pierre S. du Pont was an American industrialist and executive who led the DuPont Company and General Motors, playing a major role in early 20th-century corporate and architectural development.
  • D. Éleuthère Irénée du Pont
    Éleuthère Irénée du Pont was a French-American chemist and industrialist who founded the DuPont gunpowder company, which grew into one of the largest and most influential chemical corporations in the United States.
  • E. Elihu Thomson
    Elihu Thomson was a pioneering electrical engineer and inventor whose work in power systems and lighting helped shape the early electrical industry and led to the formation of General Electric.
  • 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_69a4936cb7448190914f5fe4b8d81607 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a78171908190a38a70274bfbebf9 completed March 1, 2026, 8:54 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7a3afbb0c8190b4e7aa7824c8b787 completed March 4, 2026, 3:14 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7a6b6741081908d14a974a7f55fbc completed March 4, 2026, 3:27 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7a8ad0c2c8190921ace3db1cd2608 completed March 4, 2026, 3:36 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.