Triple

T321419
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sony E6422 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Masaru Ibuka
Masaru Ibuka was a Japanese electronics engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Sony Corporation and a pioneer of Japan’s postwar consumer electronics industry.
E52715 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: Masaru Ibuka | Statement: [Sony, foundedBy, Masaru Ibuka]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Masaru Ibuka
Context triple: [Sony, foundedBy, Masaru Ibuka]
  • A. Minoru Ōta
    Minoru Ōta was an Imperial Japanese Navy rear admiral who led the defense of the Oroku Peninsula during the Battle of Okinawa in World War II and became known for his final message praising the Okinawan people.
  • B. Rikichi Tsukada
    Rikichi Tsukada was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army who led Japanese forces during World War II, including in the later stages of the Pacific War.
  • C. Mineichi Koga
    Mineichi Koga was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy who succeeded Isoroku Yamamoto as commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II.
  • D. Ishizuka Eizō
    Ishizuka Eizō was a Japanese colonial administrator who served as a high-ranking official in Taiwan during the period of Japanese rule.
  • E. Hata Shunroku
    Hata Shunroku was a senior Imperial Japanese Army general who played a major leadership role in Japan’s military campaigns during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II, later convicted as a war criminal.
  • 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: Masaru Ibuka
Triple: [Sony, foundedBy, Masaru Ibuka]
Generated description
Masaru Ibuka was a Japanese electronics engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Sony Corporation and a pioneer of Japan’s postwar consumer electronics industry.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Masaru Ibuka
Target entity description: Masaru Ibuka was a Japanese electronics engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Sony Corporation and a pioneer of Japan’s postwar consumer electronics industry.
  • A. Minoru Ōta
    Minoru Ōta was an Imperial Japanese Navy rear admiral who led the defense of the Oroku Peninsula during the Battle of Okinawa in World War II and became known for his final message praising the Okinawan people.
  • B. Rikichi Tsukada
    Rikichi Tsukada was a lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army who led Japanese forces during World War II, including in the later stages of the Pacific War.
  • C. Mineichi Koga
    Mineichi Koga was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy who succeeded Isoroku Yamamoto as commander-in-chief of the Combined Fleet during World War II.
  • D. Ishizuka Eizō
    Ishizuka Eizō was a Japanese colonial administrator who served as a high-ranking official in Taiwan during the period of Japanese rule.
  • E. Hata Shunroku
    Hata Shunroku was a senior Imperial Japanese Army general who played a major leadership role in Japan’s military campaigns during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II, later convicted as a war criminal.
  • 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_69a2e7933d6c8190bb2592ad13286ef2 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ea81a1e88190b3496070eb3d85f5 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a4239d00048190a1d79b889c55d33a completed March 1, 2026, 11:31 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a42418a28c81909ee31dfb1819b87f completed March 1, 2026, 11:33 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a42486e1e08190b7603c34d625da7c completed March 1, 2026, 11:35 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.