Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Southwest Airlines E5400 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Herb Kelleher
Herb Kelleher was an American entrepreneur and lawyer best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of Southwest Airlines, where he pioneered low-cost, customer-friendly air travel.
E32916 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: Herb Kelleher | Statement: [Southwest Airlines, foundedBy, Herb Kelleher]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herb Kelleher
Context triple: [Southwest Airlines, foundedBy, Herb Kelleher]
  • A. David Neeleman
    David Neeleman is a Brazilian-American airline entrepreneur best known for founding JetBlue Airways and several other low-cost carriers.
  • B. Frederick W. Smith
    Frederick W. Smith is an American businessman and entrepreneur best known as the founder of the global courier delivery company FedEx.
  • C. Michael O'Leary
    Michael O'Leary is an Irish businessman best known for transforming Ryanair into one of Europe's largest and most aggressively low-cost airlines through his outspoken and often controversial leadership style.
  • D. Roy Vagelos
    Roy Vagelos is an American physician, scientist, and former CEO of Merck & Co., renowned for his leadership in the pharmaceutical industry and major philanthropic support of medical education.
  • E. Alan Mulally
    Alan Mulally is an American engineer and business executive best known for leading Ford Motor Company’s turnaround as its CEO during the late 2000s financial crisis.
  • 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: Herb Kelleher
Triple: [Southwest Airlines, foundedBy, Herb Kelleher]
Generated description
Herb Kelleher was an American entrepreneur and lawyer best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of Southwest Airlines, where he pioneered low-cost, customer-friendly air travel.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herb Kelleher
Target entity description: Herb Kelleher was an American entrepreneur and lawyer best known as the co-founder and longtime CEO of Southwest Airlines, where he pioneered low-cost, customer-friendly air travel.
  • A. David Neeleman
    David Neeleman is a Brazilian-American airline entrepreneur best known for founding JetBlue Airways and several other low-cost carriers.
  • B. Frederick W. Smith
    Frederick W. Smith is an American businessman and entrepreneur best known as the founder of the global courier delivery company FedEx.
  • C. Michael O'Leary
    Michael O'Leary is an Irish businessman best known for transforming Ryanair into one of Europe's largest and most aggressively low-cost airlines through his outspoken and often controversial leadership style.
  • D. Roy Vagelos
    Roy Vagelos is an American physician, scientist, and former CEO of Merck & Co., renowned for his leadership in the pharmaceutical industry and major philanthropic support of medical education.
  • E. Alan Mulally
    Alan Mulally is an American engineer and business executive best known for leading Ford Motor Company’s turnaround as its CEO during the late 2000s financial crisis.
  • 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_69a2580a64ac8190ad76e34bb0715b5e completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:50 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25d548cac819081b1636b2a057c62 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3765f5b408190af6e185d6617ef5b completed Feb. 28, 2026, 11:12 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3784b3104819096bfbbfe2fc18d6a completed Feb. 28, 2026, 11:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a378ac061c8190b8f38a6711cf821e completed Feb. 28, 2026, 11:22 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:55 a.m.