Triple

T3244007
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Procter & Gamble E68029 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object William Procter
William Procter was a 19th-century British-born American businessman best known as one of the co-founders of the consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble.
E339783 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: William Procter | Statement: [Procter & Gamble, foundedBy, William Procter]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Procter
Context triple: [Procter & Gamble, foundedBy, William Procter]
  • A. William Colgate
    William Colgate was a 19th-century English-American soap and candle manufacturer whose business ventures laid the foundation for what became the global consumer products company Colgate-Palmolive.
  • B. King C. Gillette
    King C. Gillette was an American businessman and inventor best known for creating the safety razor and founding the Gillette razor company.
  • C. Francis Gillette
    Francis Gillette was a 19th-century American politician, abolitionist, and U.S. Senator from Connecticut known for his strong anti-slavery stance.
  • D. Abraham Overholt
    Abraham Overholt was a 19th-century American distiller and businessman best known for founding the Old Overholt rye whiskey brand and developing the industrial village at West Overton, Pennsylvania.
  • E. Ogden L. Mills
    Ogden L. Mills was an American lawyer, businessman, and Republican politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury during the early years of the Great Depression.
  • 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: William Procter
Triple: [Procter & Gamble, foundedBy, William Procter]
Generated description
William Procter was a 19th-century British-born American businessman best known as one of the co-founders of the consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Procter
Target entity description: William Procter was a 19th-century British-born American businessman best known as one of the co-founders of the consumer goods giant Procter & Gamble.
  • A. William Colgate
    William Colgate was a 19th-century English-American soap and candle manufacturer whose business ventures laid the foundation for what became the global consumer products company Colgate-Palmolive.
  • B. King C. Gillette
    King C. Gillette was an American businessman and inventor best known for creating the safety razor and founding the Gillette razor company.
  • C. Francis Gillette
    Francis Gillette was a 19th-century American politician, abolitionist, and U.S. Senator from Connecticut known for his strong anti-slavery stance.
  • D. Abraham Overholt
    Abraham Overholt was a 19th-century American distiller and businessman best known for founding the Old Overholt rye whiskey brand and developing the industrial village at West Overton, Pennsylvania.
  • E. Ogden L. Mills
    Ogden L. Mills was an American lawyer, businessman, and Republican politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury during the early years of the Great Depression.
  • 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_69ad858e4c708190aa31d486cfee8a6a completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adaf1856708190b072efbb27920ade completed March 8, 2026, 5:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b2775be7c88190ba60b191f1c51e19 completed March 12, 2026, 8:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b27846372c8190a5c96158bf2a5ff2 completed March 12, 2026, 8:24 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b2791ac4a08190a1cee3cfbca6e6d6 completed March 12, 2026, 8:28 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:08 p.m.