Triple

T20137464
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Seattle Times E491059 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Alden J. Blethen
Alden J. Blethen was an American newspaper publisher best known for transforming The Seattle Times into a major regional daily in the early 20th century.
E1421719 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: Alden J. Blethen | Statement: [Seattle Times, foundedBy, Alden J. Blethen]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alden J. Blethen
Context triple: [Seattle Times, foundedBy, Alden J. Blethen]
  • A. Bill Klem
    Bill Klem was a pioneering Major League Baseball umpire, often called the "father of modern umpiring," known for his long career and influential role in shaping officiating standards.
  • B. Bud Molin
    Bud Molin was an American film and television editor best known for his work on numerous comedies, including collaborations with director Carl Reiner.
  • C. Eugene Marchbanks
    Eugene Marchbanks is a sensitive young poet and one of the central figures in George Bernard Shaw’s play "Candida," whose idealistic love for the title character drives much of the drama’s emotional and philosophical conflict.
  • D. Harvey Kuenn
    Harvey Kuenn was an American Major League Baseball player and manager, best known as a batting champion with the Detroit Tigers and later as the skipper who led the Milwaukee Brewers to the 1982 American League pennant.
  • E. Clyde Oberholt
    Clyde Oberholt is a fast-talking, ambitious management consultant and key member of the central consulting team in the television series "House of Lies."
  • 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: Alden J. Blethen
Triple: [Seattle Times, foundedBy, Alden J. Blethen]
Generated description
Alden J. Blethen was an American newspaper publisher best known for transforming The Seattle Times into a major regional daily in the early 20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alden J. Blethen
Target entity description: Alden J. Blethen was an American newspaper publisher best known for transforming The Seattle Times into a major regional daily in the early 20th century.
  • A. Bill Klem
    Bill Klem was a pioneering Major League Baseball umpire, often called the "father of modern umpiring," known for his long career and influential role in shaping officiating standards.
  • B. Bud Molin
    Bud Molin was an American film and television editor best known for his work on numerous comedies, including collaborations with director Carl Reiner.
  • C. Eugene Marchbanks
    Eugene Marchbanks is a sensitive young poet and one of the central figures in George Bernard Shaw’s play "Candida," whose idealistic love for the title character drives much of the drama’s emotional and philosophical conflict.
  • D. Harvey Kuenn
    Harvey Kuenn was an American Major League Baseball player and manager, best known as a batting champion with the Detroit Tigers and later as the skipper who led the Milwaukee Brewers to the 1982 American League pennant.
  • E. Clyde Oberholt
    Clyde Oberholt is a fast-talking, ambitious management consultant and key member of the central consulting team in the television series "House of Lies."
  • 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_69da62651a0c8190a3e05e95e056a66b completed April 11, 2026, 3:01 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6676879f48190a59da04393d2a8cc completed April 20, 2026, 5:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a085a0f36ec8190b63b7cf5a7fb810d completed May 16, 2026, 11:50 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a085ad8bfd08190ac31b66cdc0bc6aa completed May 16, 2026, 11:54 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a085b756f44819090892ab35a98fcc8 completed May 16, 2026, 11:56 a.m.
Created at: April 11, 2026, 11:32 p.m.