Triple

T9535691
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Filene's E230008 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object William Filene
William Filene was an American merchant best known for establishing the Filene’s department store, a pioneering force in modern retailing.
E806119 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 Filene | Statement: [Filene's, founder, William Filene]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Filene
Context triple: [Filene's, founder, William Filene]
  • A. Ogden L. Mills
    Ogden L. Mills was an American lawyer, businessman, and Republican politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury during the early years of the Great Depression.
  • B. John J. Raskob
    John J. Raskob was an American businessman and financier best known for masterminding and financing the construction of New York City's Empire State Building.
  • C. Luther Whitney
    Luther Whitney is the aging master thief and central protagonist of David Baldacci’s political thriller "Absolute Power," whose discovery of a deadly secret inside the White House puts his life in jeopardy.
  • D. Otto H. Kahn
    Otto H. Kahn was a prominent German-born American investment banker, philanthropist, and patron of the arts active in the early 20th century.
  • E. 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.
  • 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 Filene
Triple: [Filene's, founder, William Filene]
Generated description
William Filene was an American merchant best known for establishing the Filene’s department store, a pioneering force in modern retailing.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Filene
Target entity description: William Filene was an American merchant best known for establishing the Filene’s department store, a pioneering force in modern retailing.
  • A. Ogden L. Mills
    Ogden L. Mills was an American lawyer, businessman, and Republican politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury during the early years of the Great Depression.
  • B. John J. Raskob
    John J. Raskob was an American businessman and financier best known for masterminding and financing the construction of New York City's Empire State Building.
  • C. Luther Whitney
    Luther Whitney is the aging master thief and central protagonist of David Baldacci’s political thriller "Absolute Power," whose discovery of a deadly secret inside the White House puts his life in jeopardy.
  • D. Otto H. Kahn
    Otto H. Kahn was a prominent German-born American investment banker, philanthropist, and patron of the arts active in the early 20th century.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69ca847b1b3081908f72bc932c17cc41 completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd98cd6a5c8190835c0910ec38ede3 completed April 1, 2026, 10:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d14c4804988190b99343734b4882e0 completed April 4, 2026, 5:37 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d14e5455848190a0b2aa4d93204c6a completed April 4, 2026, 5:45 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d14eab4b6c819081e1f54cc79bf49f completed April 4, 2026, 5:47 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8 p.m.