Triple

T328426
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject NVIDIA Corporation E6571 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Curtis Priem
Curtis Priem is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and early chief technology officer of the graphics processing company NVIDIA.
 E45599 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: Curtis Priem | Statement: [NVIDIA Corporation, foundedBy, Curtis Priem]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Curtis Priem
Context triple: [NVIDIA Corporation, foundedBy, Curtis Priem]
  • A. John David Stier
    John David Stier is the son of Nobel Prize–winning mathematician John Nash and Eleanor Stier.
  • B. Ernest A. Grunsfeld Jr.
    Ernest A. Grunsfeld Jr. was an American architect best known for designing Chicago’s Adler Planetarium, one of the first modern planetariums in the United States.
  • C. Joseph Vilsmaier
    Joseph Vilsmaier was a German film director and cinematographer known for his historical and war dramas, including the World War II film "Stalingrad."
  • D. Don Walsh
    Don Walsh is an American oceanographer and former U.S. Navy officer best known for co-piloting the bathyscaphe Trieste on the first crewed descent to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in 1960.
  • E. Nicholas Sagan
    Nicholas Sagan is the son of science communicator Ann Druyan and famed astronomer Carl Sagan.
  • 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: Curtis Priem
Triple: [NVIDIA Corporation, foundedBy, Curtis Priem]
Generated description
Curtis Priem is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and early chief technology officer of the graphics processing company NVIDIA.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Curtis Priem
Target entity description: Curtis Priem is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and early chief technology officer of the graphics processing company NVIDIA.
  • A. John David Stier
    John David Stier is the son of Nobel Prize–winning mathematician John Nash and Eleanor Stier.
  • B. Ernest A. Grunsfeld Jr.
    Ernest A. Grunsfeld Jr. was an American architect best known for designing Chicago’s Adler Planetarium, one of the first modern planetariums in the United States.
  • C. Joseph Vilsmaier
    Joseph Vilsmaier was a German film director and cinematographer known for his historical and war dramas, including the World War II film "Stalingrad."
  • D. Don Walsh
    Don Walsh is an American oceanographer and former U.S. Navy officer best known for co-piloting the bathyscaphe Trieste on the first crewed descent to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in 1960.
  • E. Nicholas Sagan
    Nicholas Sagan is the son of science communicator Ann Druyan and famed astronomer Carl Sagan.
  • 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_69a2eaad37b0819085beda2a491da9a8 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3e5715a0c8190ad1333d8aaaecc1b completed March 1, 2026, 7:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3e61ad63c8190940eaba657cd3df2 completed March 1, 2026, 7:09 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3e668e05c8190ba92c581622756df completed March 1, 2026, 7:10 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.