Triple

T2952138
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lubrizol E79843 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Kent H. Smith
Kent H. Smith was an American businessman best known as the founder of the specialty chemicals company Lubrizol.
 E340036 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: Kent H. Smith | Statement: [Lubrizol, foundedBy, Kent H. Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Kent H. Smith
Context triple: [Lubrizol, foundedBy, Kent H. Smith]
  • A. Mark L. Smith
    Mark L. Smith is an American screenwriter best known for his work on intense genre films, including co-writing the Oscar-winning survival drama "The Revenant."
  • B. Steven L. Smith
    Steven L. Smith is a former NASA astronaut and engineer best known for his multiple space shuttle missions, including servicing flights to the Hubble Space Telescope.
  • C. David Ray Roberts
    David Ray Roberts is a former Major League Baseball outfielder and current manager, best known for his pivotal stolen base in the 2004 ALCS with the Boston Red Sox and for managing the Los Angeles Dodgers.
  • D. Michael G. Smith
    Michael G. Smith is an American Episcopal bishop who has served as the diocesan leader of the Episcopal Diocese of Albany.
  • E. Austin S. Miller
    Austin S. Miller is a U.S. Army general best known for commanding NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan during the final years of the war.
  • 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: Kent H. Smith
Triple: [Lubrizol, foundedBy, Kent H. Smith]
Generated description
Kent H. Smith was an American businessman best known as the founder of the specialty chemicals company Lubrizol.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Kent H. Smith
Target entity description: Kent H. Smith was an American businessman best known as the founder of the specialty chemicals company Lubrizol.
  • A. Mark L. Smith
    Mark L. Smith is an American screenwriter best known for his work on intense genre films, including co-writing the Oscar-winning survival drama "The Revenant."
  • B. Steven L. Smith
    Steven L. Smith is a former NASA astronaut and engineer best known for his multiple space shuttle missions, including servicing flights to the Hubble Space Telescope.
  • C. David Ray Roberts
    David Ray Roberts is a former Major League Baseball outfielder and current manager, best known for his pivotal stolen base in the 2004 ALCS with the Boston Red Sox and for managing the Los Angeles Dodgers.
  • D. Michael G. Smith
    Michael G. Smith is an American Episcopal bishop who has served as the diocesan leader of the Episcopal Diocese of Albany.
  • E. Austin S. Miller
    Austin S. Miller is a U.S. Army general best known for commanding NATO and U.S. forces in Afghanistan during the final years of the war.
  • 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_69ad8b1276588190a374a0b12e0f7bdf completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad98fcea5c8190b7d80de942bcb4f7 completed March 8, 2026, 3:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b276cc19b48190a952015c9e501dd6 completed March 12, 2026, 8:18 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b277a9ab548190a8b9822db2db3d0d completed March 12, 2026, 8:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b27b88c9648190a4a8271452d8ed3e completed March 12, 2026, 8:38 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 2:57 p.m.