Triple

T2472935
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Harley-Davidson E55018 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Walter Davidson
Walter Davidson was an American businessman and motorcycle pioneer best known as a co-founder and the first president of Harley-Davidson.
 E335693 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: Walter Davidson | Statement: [Harley-Davidson, foundedBy, Walter Davidson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Walter Davidson
Context triple: [Harley-Davidson, foundedBy, Walter Davidson]
  • A. Walter Darre
    Walter Darré was a leading Nazi official and ideologue of "blood and soil" agrarianism who served as Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture and was later tried as a war criminal after World War II.
  • B. Walter Drey
    Walter Drey was an American businessman best known as a co-founder of Forbes, the influential business and finance magazine.
  • C. Walter Pitman
    Walter Pitman was an American geophysicist and oceanographer known for his pioneering work on seafloor spreading and plate tectonics.
  • D. Ralph Dawson
    Ralph Dawson was an American film editor known for his work on numerous Hollywood productions during the early 20th century.
  • E. Henry Davison
    Henry Davison was an American banker and humanitarian who played a key role in organizing international Red Cross relief efforts during and after World War I.
  • 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: Walter Davidson
Triple: [Harley-Davidson, foundedBy, Walter Davidson]
Generated description
Walter Davidson was an American businessman and motorcycle pioneer best known as a co-founder and the first president of Harley-Davidson.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Walter Davidson
Target entity description: Walter Davidson was an American businessman and motorcycle pioneer best known as a co-founder and the first president of Harley-Davidson.
  • A. Walter Darre
    Walter Darré was a leading Nazi official and ideologue of "blood and soil" agrarianism who served as Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture and was later tried as a war criminal after World War II.
  • B. Walter Drey
    Walter Drey was an American businessman best known as a co-founder of Forbes, the influential business and finance magazine.
  • C. Walter Pitman
    Walter Pitman was an American geophysicist and oceanographer known for his pioneering work on seafloor spreading and plate tectonics.
  • D. Ralph Dawson
    Ralph Dawson was an American film editor known for his work on numerous Hollywood productions during the early 20th century.
  • E. Henry Davison
    Henry Davison was an American banker and humanitarian who played a key role in organizing international Red Cross relief efforts during and after World War I.
  • 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_69ab49e279e88190ab10d7248aea9d11 completed March 6, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd149c10c819098ff75f176972c8b completed March 7, 2026, 7:18 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b24ab711808190a7da65abdc663cb4 completed March 12, 2026, 5:10 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b24c78cb408190948f715254175cff completed March 12, 2026, 5:17 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b24d2ce888819087cc7c3f5db0e859 completed March 12, 2026, 5:20 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:45 p.m.