Triple

T2370782
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Danaher Corporation E46084 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Steven M. Rales
Steven M. Rales is an American businessman and billionaire industrialist best known as a co-founder and longtime leader of Danaher Corporation.
E261806 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: Steven M. Rales | Statement: [Danaher Corporation, foundedBy, Steven M. Rales]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Steven M. Rales
Context triple: [Danaher Corporation, foundedBy, Steven M. Rales]
  • A. David M. Rubenstein
    David M. Rubenstein is an American billionaire investor, philanthropist, and co-founder of the global private equity firm The Carlyle Group.
  • B. Bob Feerick
    Bob Feerick was an early professional basketball star and player-coach in the Basketball Association of America (a precursor to the NBA), known for his scoring and leadership in the late 1940s.
  • C. S. Kenneth Davidson
    S. Kenneth Davidson was a businessman best known for owning the Oakland Oaks professional basketball team in the American Basketball Association.
  • D. Peter A. Dowling
    Peter A. Dowling is a screenwriter best known for his work on high-concept Hollywood thrillers, including the Jodie Foster–led film "Flightplan."
  • E. Robert H. Kurnick Jr.
    Robert H. Kurnick Jr. is a senior American business executive best known for his leadership role at Penske Automotive Group, a major international transportation services company.
  • 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: Steven M. Rales
Triple: [Danaher Corporation, foundedBy, Steven M. Rales]
Generated description
Steven M. Rales is an American businessman and billionaire industrialist best known as a co-founder and longtime leader of Danaher Corporation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Steven M. Rales
Target entity description: Steven M. Rales is an American businessman and billionaire industrialist best known as a co-founder and longtime leader of Danaher Corporation.
  • A. David M. Rubenstein
    David M. Rubenstein is an American billionaire investor, philanthropist, and co-founder of the global private equity firm The Carlyle Group.
  • B. Bob Feerick
    Bob Feerick was an early professional basketball star and player-coach in the Basketball Association of America (a precursor to the NBA), known for his scoring and leadership in the late 1940s.
  • C. S. Kenneth Davidson
    S. Kenneth Davidson was a businessman best known for owning the Oakland Oaks professional basketball team in the American Basketball Association.
  • D. Peter A. Dowling
    Peter A. Dowling is a screenwriter best known for his work on high-concept Hollywood thrillers, including the Jodie Foster–led film "Flightplan."
  • E. Robert H. Kurnick Jr.
    Robert H. Kurnick Jr. is a senior American business executive best known for his leadership role at Penske Automotive Group, a major international transportation services company.
  • 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_69a88a145268819083e2736cb835c696 completed March 4, 2026, 7:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc76f5aec8190867d621e6849258c completed March 7, 2026, 6:36 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aea8a2b1448190b19179cf379993ee completed March 9, 2026, 11:01 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aeac6b13ac81909042dddef15ec924 completed March 9, 2026, 11:18 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aead16b0a881909103e26053cfad84 completed March 9, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:56 p.m.