Triple

T2908944
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bear Stearns E63634 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object Robert B. Stearns
Robert B. Stearns was an American financier best known as a co-founder of the Wall Street investment bank Bear Stearns.
E471996 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: Robert B. Stearns | Statement: [Bear Stearns, founder, Robert B. Stearns]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert B. Stearns
Context triple: [Bear Stearns, founder, Robert B. Stearns]
  • A. LeRoy Apker
    LeRoy Apker was an American experimental physicist known for his contributions to solid-state physics and for his work at General Electric.
  • B. Robert N. Fitch
    Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
  • C. Robert L. Stewart
    Robert L. Stewart is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Army brigadier general best known as one of the first astronauts to perform an untethered spacewalk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit.
  • D. George D. Nelson
    George D. Nelson is a former NASA astronaut and physicist who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions in the 1980s.
  • E. Robert H. Richards
    Robert H. Richards was a prominent American mining engineer and metallurgist known for pioneering work in ore dressing and mineral processing.
  • 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: Robert B. Stearns
Triple: [Bear Stearns, founder, Robert B. Stearns]
Generated description
Robert B. Stearns was an American financier best known as a co-founder of the Wall Street investment bank Bear Stearns.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert B. Stearns
Target entity description: Robert B. Stearns was an American financier best known as a co-founder of the Wall Street investment bank Bear Stearns.
  • A. LeRoy Apker
    LeRoy Apker was an American experimental physicist known for his contributions to solid-state physics and for his work at General Electric.
  • B. Robert N. Fitch
    Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
  • C. Robert L. Stewart
    Robert L. Stewart is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Army brigadier general best known as one of the first astronauts to perform an untethered spacewalk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit.
  • D. George D. Nelson
    George D. Nelson is a former NASA astronaut and physicist who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions in the 1980s.
  • E. Robert H. Richards
    Robert H. Richards was a prominent American mining engineer and metallurgist known for pioneering work in ore dressing and mineral processing.
  • 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_69ab4c44ab448190b9411324e8a1fc1d completed March 6, 2026, 9:51 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abe0d329c88190b6fcaef0be1799eb completed March 7, 2026, 8:24 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be4d59f188819093e3a6c7037593cf completed March 21, 2026, 7:48 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be4e4d3d608190837c5808f2f17aa4 completed March 21, 2026, 7:52 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be4f0d51ac819097636aaf2429f317 completed March 21, 2026, 7:55 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 10:11 p.m.