Triple

T20345938
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject LiveUniverse E495869 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object Brad Greenspan
Brad Greenspan is an American internet entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Myspace and an early pioneer in social networking and online media.
E115750 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: Brad Greenspan | Statement: [LiveUniverse, founder, Brad Greenspan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brad Greenspan
Context triple: [LiveUniverse, founder, Brad Greenspan]
  • A. Brad Greenspan
    Brad Greenspan is an American internet entrepreneur best known for co-founding the social networking site MySpace.
  • B. Jay Scott Greenspan
    Jay Scott Greenspan is the birth name of American actor and comedian Jason Alexander, best known for playing George Costanza on the television series "Seinfeld."
  • C. Gabriel Greenspan
    Gabriel Greenspan is the son of American actor and comedian Jason Alexander.
  • D. Edward Greenspan
    Edward Greenspan was a prominent Canadian criminal defence lawyer and legal commentator, widely recognized for his high-profile cases and influence on Canadian criminal law.
  • E. John Wesley Rattner
    John Wesley Rattner is the young protagonist of Cormac McCarthy’s debut novel *The Orchard Keeper*, whose coming-of-age unfolds amid the isolated, morally ambiguous backwoods of rural Tennessee.
  • 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: Brad Greenspan
Triple: [LiveUniverse, founder, Brad Greenspan]
Generated description
Brad Greenspan is an American internet entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Myspace and an early pioneer in social networking and online media.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brad Greenspan
Target entity description: Brad Greenspan is an American internet entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Myspace and an early pioneer in social networking and online media.
  • A. Brad Greenspan chosen
    Brad Greenspan is an American internet entrepreneur best known for co-founding the social networking site MySpace.
  • B. Jay Scott Greenspan
    Jay Scott Greenspan is the birth name of American actor and comedian Jason Alexander, best known for playing George Costanza on the television series "Seinfeld."
  • C. Gabriel Greenspan
    Gabriel Greenspan is the son of American actor and comedian Jason Alexander.
  • D. Edward Greenspan
    Edward Greenspan was a prominent Canadian criminal defence lawyer and legal commentator, widely recognized for his high-profile cases and influence on Canadian criminal law.
  • E. John Wesley Rattner
    John Wesley Rattner is the young protagonist of Cormac McCarthy’s debut novel *The Orchard Keeper*, whose coming-of-age unfolds amid the isolated, morally ambiguous backwoods of rural Tennessee.
  • F. None of above.

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_69e0b4a3320881909495ae8bc30bc2dc completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6783937a48190ac86e4959a781a2b completed April 20, 2026, 7:02 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0869616b388190a7a2d69c0188f180 completed May 16, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0869f7b4208190858fdeae882e008d completed May 16, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a086a893f1c81909bc40e3c4db0e147 completed May 16, 2026, 1 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:24 a.m.