Triple

T2060548
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sam's Club E45777 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Sam Walton
Sam Walton was an American businessman and entrepreneur best known as the founder of Walmart, which grew into one of the world’s largest retail chains.
 E228387 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: Sam Walton | Statement: [Sam's Club, foundedBy, Sam Walton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sam Walton
Context triple: [Sam's Club, foundedBy, Sam Walton]
  • A. Frank Winfield Woolworth
    Frank Winfield Woolworth was an American entrepreneur and retail pioneer who founded the F. W. Woolworth Company, one of the first and most successful five-and-dime store chains.
  • B. James Cash Penney
    James Cash Penney was an American businessman and entrepreneur best known as the founder of the J. C. Penney department store chain.
  • C. Rodman Wanamaker
    Rodman Wanamaker was an American businessman and department store magnate whose support for professional golf helped lead to the creation of the PGA Championship and its iconic Wanamaker Trophy.
  • D. Richard Warren Sears
    Richard Warren Sears was an American businessman and retail pioneer who co-founded the mail-order and department store giant Sears, Roebuck & Co.
  • E. Howard Graham Buffett
    Howard Graham Buffett is an American businessman, farmer, philanthropist, and conservationist known for his global humanitarian and environmental work and as the son of investor Warren Buffett.
  • 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: Sam Walton
Triple: [Sam's Club, foundedBy, Sam Walton]
Generated description
Sam Walton was an American businessman and entrepreneur best known as the founder of Walmart, which grew into one of the world’s largest retail chains.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sam Walton
Target entity description: Sam Walton was an American businessman and entrepreneur best known as the founder of Walmart, which grew into one of the world’s largest retail chains.
  • A. Frank Winfield Woolworth
    Frank Winfield Woolworth was an American entrepreneur and retail pioneer who founded the F. W. Woolworth Company, one of the first and most successful five-and-dime store chains.
  • B. James Cash Penney
    James Cash Penney was an American businessman and entrepreneur best known as the founder of the J. C. Penney department store chain.
  • C. Rodman Wanamaker
    Rodman Wanamaker was an American businessman and department store magnate whose support for professional golf helped lead to the creation of the PGA Championship and its iconic Wanamaker Trophy.
  • D. Richard Warren Sears
    Richard Warren Sears was an American businessman and retail pioneer who co-founded the mail-order and department store giant Sears, Roebuck & Co.
  • E. Howard Graham Buffett
    Howard Graham Buffett is an American businessman, farmer, philanthropist, and conservationist known for his global humanitarian and environmental work and as the son of investor Warren Buffett.
  • 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_69a8891a19508190a12ef1e192308dcb completed March 4, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb9cfdac88190b8b7af1bfea6a78e completed March 7, 2026, 5:38 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae2014da048190902b2a23574d34ef completed March 9, 2026, 1:19 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae20dff3c48190943a913c63247537 completed March 9, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae21465d048190a1ee3a52c96ee37d completed March 9, 2026, 1:24 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m.