Triple

T3380720
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Xerox E71175 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Joseph C. Wilson
Joseph C. Wilson was an American businessman best known as the pioneering leader who transformed Xerox into a major innovator in photocopying and office technology.
 E353615 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: Joseph C. Wilson | Statement: [Xerox, foundedBy, Joseph C. Wilson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Joseph C. Wilson
Context triple: [Xerox, foundedBy, Joseph C. Wilson]
  • A. Joseph M. Wilson
    Joseph M. Wilson was a 19th-century American industrialist and businessman known for co-founding and partnering in the textile manufacturing firm Wilson Brothers & Company.
  • B. Ira S. Haseltine
    Ira S. Haseltine was an American politician and early settler known for his role in establishing the community of Richland Center, Wisconsin.
  • C. Edmund A. Walsh
    Edmund A. Walsh was an American Jesuit priest, educator, and influential founder of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, known for his work in international affairs and anti-communism.
  • D. James A. Allison
    James A. Allison was an American entrepreneur and industrialist best known as one of the founders of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the Allison Engineering Company, a major aircraft engine manufacturer.
  • E. William Lawrence
    William Lawrence was an American public official who served as the U.S. Comptroller of the Treasury, overseeing federal financial accounts and fiscal administration.
  • 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: Joseph C. Wilson
Triple: [Xerox, foundedBy, Joseph C. Wilson]
Generated description
Joseph C. Wilson was an American businessman best known as the pioneering leader who transformed Xerox into a major innovator in photocopying and office technology.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Joseph C. Wilson
Target entity description: Joseph C. Wilson was an American businessman best known as the pioneering leader who transformed Xerox into a major innovator in photocopying and office technology.
  • A. Joseph M. Wilson
    Joseph M. Wilson was a 19th-century American industrialist and businessman known for co-founding and partnering in the textile manufacturing firm Wilson Brothers & Company.
  • B. Ira S. Haseltine
    Ira S. Haseltine was an American politician and early settler known for his role in establishing the community of Richland Center, Wisconsin.
  • C. Edmund A. Walsh
    Edmund A. Walsh was an American Jesuit priest, educator, and influential founder of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, known for his work in international affairs and anti-communism.
  • D. James A. Allison
    James A. Allison was an American entrepreneur and industrialist best known as one of the founders of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the Allison Engineering Company, a major aircraft engine manufacturer.
  • E. William Lawrence
    William Lawrence was an American public official who served as the U.S. Comptroller of the Treasury, overseeing federal financial accounts and fiscal administration.
  • 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_69ad85a7f80c8190a05e43013f298942 completed March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adb5e7c7f48190afb78c311b424c93 completed March 8, 2026, 5:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b3344f9b448190aab1038ead60fa48 completed March 12, 2026, 9:46 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b338147cc0819095f00b28910e178a completed March 12, 2026, 10:03 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b338967c6c819090fe5f77bfa1978f completed March 12, 2026, 10:05 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:14 p.m.