Triple
T1490645
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Thomas J. Watson Sr. University Professor of Technology and Education at Brown University |
E29569
|
entity |
| Predicate | namedAfter |
P63
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Thomas J. Watson Sr. |
E35664
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Thomas J. Watson Sr. | Statement: [Thomas J. Watson Sr. University Professor of Technology and Education at Brown University, namedAfter, Thomas J. Watson Sr.]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas J. Watson Sr. Context triple: [Thomas J. Watson Sr. University Professor of Technology and Education at Brown University, namedAfter, Thomas J. Watson Sr.]
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A.
Thomas J. Watson
chosen
Thomas J. Watson was an American business executive best known for transforming the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company into IBM and leading it to become a dominant force in the early computer industry.
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B.
Alfred P. Sloan
Alfred P. Sloan was a prominent American business executive and long-time president and chairman of General Motors, known for pioneering modern corporate management practices and organizational structures.
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C.
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.
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D.
Theodore Case
Theodore Case was an American inventor and pioneer of sound-on-film technology whose work helped enable synchronized audio in motion pictures.
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E.
Edwin G. Booz
Edwin G. Booz was an American businessman and pioneer of the management consulting industry, best known for establishing the firm that became Booz Allen Hamilton.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69a498da82e08190ba833330d05f380f |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:51 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4c6c233ec819087e1233af02aabfc |
completed | March 1, 2026, 11:07 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ad1ca98e64819097916eb7717e6364 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 6:52 a.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 8:12 p.m.