Triple

T264680
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject LinkedIn E5698 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object Eric Ly
Eric Ly is an American entrepreneur and technologist best known as the co-founder and former chief technology officer of LinkedIn.
 E34620 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: Eric Ly | Statement: [LinkedIn, founder, Eric Ly]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Eric Ly
Context triple: [LinkedIn, founder, Eric Ly]
  • A. Jim Loscutoff
    Jim Loscutoff was an American professional basketball forward best known for his rugged defense and seven NBA championships with the Boston Celtics in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • B. Greg Yang
    Greg Yang is a mathematician and AI researcher known for his work on the theoretical foundations of deep learning and his role at xAI.
  • C. Eric Eldred
    Eric Eldred is an American digital rights activist and publisher known for his work promoting free access to literature and for co-founding the Creative Commons movement.
  • D. Brian VanDeMark
    Brian VanDeMark is an American historian and author known for his work on U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam War, including coauthoring influential studies of that conflict.
  • E. Eric Thibault
    Eric Thibault is a professional basketball coach best known for leading the WNBA’s Washington Mystics.
  • 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: Eric Ly
Triple: [LinkedIn, founder, Eric Ly]
Generated description
Eric Ly is an American entrepreneur and technologist best known as the co-founder and former chief technology officer of LinkedIn.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Eric Ly
Target entity description: Eric Ly is an American entrepreneur and technologist best known as the co-founder and former chief technology officer of LinkedIn.
  • A. Jim Loscutoff
    Jim Loscutoff was an American professional basketball forward best known for his rugged defense and seven NBA championships with the Boston Celtics in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • B. Greg Yang
    Greg Yang is a mathematician and AI researcher known for his work on the theoretical foundations of deep learning and his role at xAI.
  • C. Eric Eldred
    Eric Eldred is an American digital rights activist and publisher known for his work promoting free access to literature and for co-founding the Creative Commons movement.
  • D. Brian VanDeMark
    Brian VanDeMark is an American historian and author known for his work on U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam War, including coauthoring influential studies of that conflict.
  • E. Anders Lee
    Anders Lee is an American professional ice hockey forward in the NHL, best known as a longtime leader and key goal-scorer for the New York Islanders.
  • 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_69a2587daeb081909591b9d30f80a271 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:52 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25d8f9bbc8190a13841e4de093a66 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:14 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a389ae45648190966804664bf4f861 completed March 1, 2026, 12:34 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a38a9adf4481909300cfa1fb3129cc completed March 1, 2026, 12:38 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a38aef72808190953043b9c480fada completed March 1, 2026, 12:40 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:56 a.m.