Triple
T3345823
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Apple Macintosh team |
E70371
|
entity |
| Predicate | influencedBy |
P9
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Xerox PARC Alto interface concepts |
E2458
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Xerox PARC Alto interface concepts | Statement: [Apple Macintosh team, influencedBy, Xerox PARC Alto interface concepts]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Xerox PARC Alto interface concepts Context triple: [Apple Macintosh team, influencedBy, Xerox PARC Alto interface concepts]
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A.
Xerox Alto user interface
chosen
The Xerox Alto user interface was a pioneering graphical user interface featuring windows, icons, and a desktop metaphor that profoundly shaped the design of modern personal computing environments.
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B.
Xerox PARC technical reports
Xerox PARC technical reports are a series of influential research documents produced at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center that detail pioneering work in computer science, including early graphical user interfaces, networking, and personal computing.
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C.
Cedar system at Xerox PARC
The Cedar system at Xerox PARC was an advanced experimental integrated programming environment and workstation operating system that extended the Mesa language and tools to support large-scale software development and research.
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D.
Xerox Star system
The Xerox Star system was an early commercial workstation that pioneered the modern graphical user interface with icons, windows, and a desktop metaphor, profoundly influencing later personal computers.
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E.
Sketchpad: A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System
"Sketchpad: A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System" is a pioneering early computer graphics program that introduced interactive, graphical user interfaces and object-oriented concepts to computer-aided design.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ad85a405e48190b6e68de7cf9f319e |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69adb1f36c74819093ef2c74a46c2351 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 5:29 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b32522cbc88190b965087a580d7acf |
completed | March 12, 2026, 8:42 p.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:12 p.m.