Triple

T2972556
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Saks Fifth Avenue E80313 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Andrew Saks
Andrew Saks was an American businessman and retailer best known as the founder of the luxury department store Saks Fifth Avenue.
E388025 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: Andrew Saks | Statement: [Saks Fifth Avenue, foundedBy, Andrew Saks]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Andrew Saks
Context triple: [Saks Fifth Avenue, foundedBy, Andrew Saks]
  • A. Andrew Weisblum
    Andrew Weisblum is an American film editor known for his work on major feature films, including collaborations with directors like Darren Aronofsky and Wes Anderson.
  • B. Neil Siegel
    Neil Siegel is a prominent American legal scholar known for his work in constitutional law and theory, including the study of judicial behavior and the separation of powers.
  • C. David Sacks
    David Sacks is a technology entrepreneur and investor best known as the founding COO of PayPal, founder of Geni.com and Yammer, and a prominent figure in Silicon Valley venture capital.
  • D. Greg Kaplan
    Greg Kaplan is an economist known for his research on household heterogeneity, consumption, and macroeconomic policy, and for his contributions to modern macroeconomic modeling.
  • E. Ian Kahn
    Ian Kahn is an American actor best known for playing George Washington on the television series "Turn: Washington's Spies."
  • 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: Andrew Saks
Triple: [Saks Fifth Avenue, foundedBy, Andrew Saks]
Generated description
Andrew Saks was an American businessman and retailer best known as the founder of the luxury department store Saks Fifth Avenue.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Andrew Saks
Target entity description: Andrew Saks was an American businessman and retailer best known as the founder of the luxury department store Saks Fifth Avenue.
  • A. Andrew Weisblum
    Andrew Weisblum is an American film editor known for his work on major feature films, including collaborations with directors like Darren Aronofsky and Wes Anderson.
  • B. Neil Siegel
    Neil Siegel is a prominent American legal scholar known for his work in constitutional law and theory, including the study of judicial behavior and the separation of powers.
  • C. David Sacks
    David Sacks is a technology entrepreneur and investor best known as the founding COO of PayPal, founder of Geni.com and Yammer, and a prominent figure in Silicon Valley venture capital.
  • D. Greg Kaplan
    Greg Kaplan is an economist known for his research on household heterogeneity, consumption, and macroeconomic policy, and for his contributions to modern macroeconomic modeling.
  • E. Ian Kahn
    Ian Kahn is an American actor best known for playing George Washington on the television series "Turn: Washington's Spies."
  • 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_69ad8b14ffe881908ffed62f9595c867 completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad998656948190ba79d7196d735f34 completed March 8, 2026, 3:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4f00fe39481908cee24dc57be2b3b completed March 14, 2026, 5:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4f1aeef248190922102fcee343239 completed March 14, 2026, 5:27 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4f239fd348190a6a1704dab4894b4 completed March 14, 2026, 5:29 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 2:58 p.m.