Triple

T10405446
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Look E245250 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object John Cowles Sr.
John Cowles Sr. was an American newspaper and magazine publisher who built a major media empire, notably through leadership of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune Company.
 E861863 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 Cowles Sr. | Statement: [Look, foundedBy, John Cowles Sr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Cowles Sr.
Context triple: [Look, foundedBy, John Cowles Sr.]
  • A. Jules Cowles
    Jules Cowles was an American character actor of the silent and early sound film era, known for his distinctive appearance and supporting roles in numerous 1920s productions.
  • B. Thomas Cushman
    Thomas Cushman was a prominent early Plymouth Colony settler who became a leading church elder and community figure in 17th-century New England.
  • C. George Burroughs
    George Burroughs was a Puritan minister in colonial New England who was infamously executed for alleged witchcraft during the Salem witch trials.
  • D. Henry Willard Coe
    Henry Willard Coe was an American rancher and landowner whose former ranchlands in California later became the expansive Henry W. Coe State Park.
  • E. William Cottrell
    William Cottrell was an American screenwriter and director best known for his work on classic Disney animated films in the mid-20th century.
  • 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 Cowles Sr.
Triple: [Look, foundedBy, John Cowles Sr.]
Generated description
John Cowles Sr. was an American newspaper and magazine publisher who built a major media empire, notably through leadership of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune Company.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Cowles Sr.
Target entity description: John Cowles Sr. was an American newspaper and magazine publisher who built a major media empire, notably through leadership of the Minneapolis Star and Tribune Company.
  • A. Jules Cowles
    Jules Cowles was an American character actor of the silent and early sound film era, known for his distinctive appearance and supporting roles in numerous 1920s productions.
  • B. Thomas Cushman
    Thomas Cushman was a prominent early Plymouth Colony settler who became a leading church elder and community figure in 17th-century New England.
  • C. George Burroughs
    George Burroughs was a Puritan minister in colonial New England who was infamously executed for alleged witchcraft during the Salem witch trials.
  • D. Henry Willard Coe
    Henry Willard Coe was an American rancher and landowner whose former ranchlands in California later became the expansive Henry W. Coe State Park.
  • E. William Cottrell
    William Cottrell was an American screenwriter and director best known for his work on classic Disney animated films in the mid-20th century.
  • 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_69d381be340c8190b05998703d42d224 completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d4e9e78008819088f0ffba78471509 completed April 7, 2026, 11:26 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d7fbe721b48190a4fd0c1d839c580e completed April 9, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d822d597088190bf3dca85e1ddb890 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d859cc1aac8190ab232bb4e4e4fac1 completed April 10, 2026, 2 a.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:08 p.m.