Triple

T2038692
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Digital Equipment Corporation E44692 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Harlan Anderson
Harlan Anderson was an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the pioneering minicomputer company Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).
E326246 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: Harlan Anderson | Statement: [Digital Equipment Corporation, foundedBy, Harlan Anderson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harlan Anderson
Context triple: [Digital Equipment Corporation, foundedBy, Harlan Anderson]
  • A. Kenneth Anderson
    Kenneth Anderson was a British Army general best known for leading Allied ground forces in the North African campaign during World War II, including the early phases of the Tunisian campaign.
  • B. Johnston McCulley
    Johnston McCulley was an American writer best known as the creator of the swashbuckling masked hero Zorro.
  • C. George Caldwell
    George Caldwell is the hapless yet resourceful book editor protagonist of the 1976 comedy-thriller film "Silver Streak," portrayed by Gene Wilder.
  • D. John Alderman
    John Alderman was a Native American allied with the English colonists who became historically known for killing the Wampanoag leader Metacomet (King Philip) during King Philip’s War.
  • E. Roger E. Broggie
    Roger E. Broggie is a steam locomotive at Walt Disney World Railroad named in honor of Disney Imagineer and master machinist Roger E. Broggie, who was instrumental in developing Disney’s early railroad and ride systems.
  • 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: Harlan Anderson
Triple: [Digital Equipment Corporation, foundedBy, Harlan Anderson]
Generated description
Harlan Anderson was an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the pioneering minicomputer company Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harlan Anderson
Target entity description: Harlan Anderson was an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the pioneering minicomputer company Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).
  • A. Kenneth Anderson
    Kenneth Anderson was a British Army general best known for leading Allied ground forces in the North African campaign during World War II, including the early phases of the Tunisian campaign.
  • B. Johnston McCulley
    Johnston McCulley was an American writer best known as the creator of the swashbuckling masked hero Zorro.
  • C. George Caldwell
    George Caldwell is the hapless yet resourceful book editor protagonist of the 1976 comedy-thriller film "Silver Streak," portrayed by Gene Wilder.
  • D. John Alderman
    John Alderman was a Native American allied with the English colonists who became historically known for killing the Wampanoag leader Metacomet (King Philip) during King Philip’s War.
  • E. Roger E. Broggie
    Roger E. Broggie is a steam locomotive at Walt Disney World Railroad named in honor of Disney Imagineer and master machinist Roger E. Broggie, who was instrumental in developing Disney’s early railroad and ride systems.
  • 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_69a889159ec481908f9e4472d9f480c7 completed March 4, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb951870481909dbdd8fc8b0c02fe completed March 7, 2026, 5:36 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b20312b56081908ec4aba034592402 completed March 12, 2026, 12:04 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b20420e7448190b04b68dcb2552a4f completed March 12, 2026, 12:09 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b2048310bc8190af647c4f7773815a completed March 12, 2026, 12:10 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:39 p.m.