Triple
T2377984
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | BJ's Wholesale Club |
E46243
|
entity |
| Predicate | foundedBy |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Mervyn Weich
Mervyn Weich is an American businessman best known as the founder of the membership-based warehouse retail chain BJ's Wholesale Club.
|
E260686
|
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: Mervyn Weich | Statement: [BJ's Wholesale Club, foundedBy, Mervyn Weich]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mervyn Weich Context triple: [BJ's Wholesale Club, foundedBy, Mervyn Weich]
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A.
Mervyn Warren
Mervyn Warren is an American composer, record producer, and arranger best known for his work in film scores, gospel, and a cappella music, including as a founding member of Take 6.
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B.
Walter Crickmer
Walter Crickmer was an English football club secretary and manager for Manchester United who was among those who died in the 1958 Munich air disaster.
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C.
Maurice Gwyer
Maurice Gwyer was a British lawyer and civil servant who became the first Chief Justice of India and co-founded the publishing house Faber and Faber.
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D.
Claude Montefiore
Claude Montefiore was a leading British Jewish theologian and scholar who helped shape early Reform Judaism through his liberal religious thought and biblical criticism.
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E.
Cecil Kellaway
Cecil Kellaway was a South African-born character actor known for his warm, avuncular screen presence in numerous Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1960s.
- 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: Mervyn Weich Triple: [BJ's Wholesale Club, foundedBy, Mervyn Weich]
Generated description
Mervyn Weich is an American businessman best known as the founder of the membership-based warehouse retail chain BJ's Wholesale Club.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mervyn Weich Target entity description: Mervyn Weich is an American businessman best known as the founder of the membership-based warehouse retail chain BJ's Wholesale Club.
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A.
Mervyn Warren
Mervyn Warren is an American composer, record producer, and arranger best known for his work in film scores, gospel, and a cappella music, including as a founding member of Take 6.
-
B.
Walter Crickmer
Walter Crickmer was an English football club secretary and manager for Manchester United who was among those who died in the 1958 Munich air disaster.
-
C.
Maurice Gwyer
Maurice Gwyer was a British lawyer and civil servant who became the first Chief Justice of India and co-founded the publishing house Faber and Faber.
-
D.
Claude Montefiore
Claude Montefiore was a leading British Jewish theologian and scholar who helped shape early Reform Judaism through his liberal religious thought and biblical criticism.
-
E.
Cecil Kellaway
Cecil Kellaway was a South African-born character actor known for his warm, avuncular screen presence in numerous Hollywood films from the 1930s through the 1960s.
- 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_69a88a1554a48190a0180682bcf099be |
completed | March 4, 2026, 7:37 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abc79610e8819084abfbccd1dc67c0 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 6:37 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69aea8af12bc8190a6667beb729406a3 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 11:02 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69aeab34e4d0819088a24121785f81c6 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 11:12 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69aeabcae91c81908b2197ce0ef7eaa9 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 11:15 a.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:57 p.m.