Triple
T199164
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Ford family (controlling shareholders) |
E4063
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableMember |
P10
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
William Clay Ford Sr.
William Clay Ford Sr. was an American businessman and member of the Ford family who owned the Detroit Lions and held various leadership roles within the Ford Motor Company.
|
E27239
|
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 Clay Ford Sr. | Statement: [Ford family (controlling shareholders), notableMember, William Clay Ford Sr.]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Clay Ford Sr. Context triple: [Ford family (controlling shareholders), notableMember, William Clay Ford Sr.]
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A.
William Clay Ford Jr.
William Clay Ford Jr. is an American businessman and great-grandson of Henry Ford who has served as executive chairman of Ford Motor Company and is known for promoting sustainability and innovation within the company.
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B.
Edsel Ford
Edsel Ford was an American business executive and the only son of Henry Ford, best known for serving as president of the Ford Motor Company during the early 20th century.
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C.
Henry Ford II
Henry Ford II was an American industrialist who led the postwar revival and modernization of Ford Motor Company as its president and later chairman.
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D.
William C. Durant
William C. Durant was an American automobile pioneer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and early leader of General Motors and Chevrolet.
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E.
Edsel
Edsel was a short-lived and commercially unsuccessful automobile marque introduced by Ford in the late 1950s, now often cited as a classic example of a major product failure in marketing history.
- 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 Clay Ford Sr. Triple: [Ford family (controlling shareholders), notableMember, William Clay Ford Sr.]
Generated description
William Clay Ford Sr. was an American businessman and member of the Ford family who owned the Detroit Lions and held various leadership roles within the Ford Motor Company.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Clay Ford Sr. Target entity description: William Clay Ford Sr. was an American businessman and member of the Ford family who owned the Detroit Lions and held various leadership roles within the Ford Motor Company.
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A.
William Clay Ford Jr.
William Clay Ford Jr. is an American businessman and great-grandson of Henry Ford who has served as executive chairman of Ford Motor Company and is known for promoting sustainability and innovation within the company.
-
B.
Edsel Ford
Edsel Ford was an American business executive and the only son of Henry Ford, best known for serving as president of the Ford Motor Company during the early 20th century.
-
C.
Henry Ford II
Henry Ford II was an American industrialist who led the postwar revival and modernization of Ford Motor Company as its president and later chairman.
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D.
William C. Durant
William C. Durant was an American automobile pioneer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and early leader of General Motors and Chevrolet.
-
E.
Edsel
Edsel was a short-lived and commercially unsuccessful automobile marque introduced by Ford in the late 1950s, now often cited as a classic example of a major product failure in marketing history.
- 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_69a254bca59881909a15e1496f1508c7 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 2:36 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a25bcc6dc88190b8c24b485588dfe4 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 3:06 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a338e6c2bc81908fbc7402770ab35b |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 6:50 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69a33b028fc481908a91d70289bd485a |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 6:59 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69a33b6580888190b3ebc9704f3e016a |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 7 p.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:44 a.m.