Triple

T3345829
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Apple Macintosh team E70371 entity
Predicate keyMember P44793 FINISHED
Object Burrell Smith
Burrell Smith is an American hardware engineer best known for designing the original Macintosh computer’s digital board as part of Apple’s pioneering Macintosh team in the early 1980s.
 E370762 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: Burrell Smith | Statement: [Apple Macintosh team, keyMember, Burrell Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Burrell Smith
Context triple: [Apple Macintosh team, keyMember, Burrell Smith]
  • A. J. W. Burch
    J. W. Burch was an American settler and community leader credited with establishing the city of Richland Center in Wisconsin.
  • B. Philip Smith
    Philip Smith is a member of the family of Jeffrey Lurie, the owner of the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles.
  • C. Raymond Smith
    Raymond Smith is a central figure in the crime film "The Gentlemen," serving as the right-hand man and trusted enforcer for marijuana kingpin Mickey Pearson.
  • D. Harvey Smith
    Harvey Smith is a renowned video game designer and director best known for his work on immersive sim titles such as the Dishonored series and Deus Ex.
  • E. Russell Smith
    Russell Smith is a film producer best known for his work on the acclaimed coming-of-age drama "Young Adult."
  • 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: Burrell Smith
Triple: [Apple Macintosh team, keyMember, Burrell Smith]
Generated description
Burrell Smith is an American hardware engineer best known for designing the original Macintosh computer’s digital board as part of Apple’s pioneering Macintosh team in the early 1980s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Burrell Smith
Target entity description: Burrell Smith is an American hardware engineer best known for designing the original Macintosh computer’s digital board as part of Apple’s pioneering Macintosh team in the early 1980s.
  • A. J. W. Burch
    J. W. Burch was an American settler and community leader credited with establishing the city of Richland Center in Wisconsin.
  • B. Philip Smith
    Philip Smith is a member of the family of Jeffrey Lurie, the owner of the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles.
  • C. Raymond Smith
    Raymond Smith is a central figure in the crime film "The Gentlemen," serving as the right-hand man and trusted enforcer for marijuana kingpin Mickey Pearson.
  • D. Harvey Smith
    Harvey Smith is a renowned video game designer and director best known for his work on immersive sim titles such as the Dishonored series and Deus Ex.
  • E. Russell Smith
    Russell Smith is a film producer best known for his work on the acclaimed coming-of-age drama "Young Adult."
  • 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_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_69b402c197c88190b0ca5a7f47141511 completed March 13, 2026, 12:27 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4034973c08190b0332a9a8b5340d7 completed March 13, 2026, 12:30 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4086ab034819086c5fa7d4b172d75 completed March 13, 2026, 12:51 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:12 p.m.