Triple

T3380721
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Xerox E71175 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Chester Carlson
Chester Carlson was an American physicist and inventor best known for creating xerography, the dry photocopying process that led to the founding of Xerox.
E353616 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: Chester Carlson | Statement: [Xerox, foundedBy, Chester Carlson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Chester Carlson
Context triple: [Xerox, foundedBy, Chester Carlson]
  • A. Theodore Case
    Theodore Case was an American inventor and pioneer of sound-on-film technology whose work helped enable synchronized audio in motion pictures.
  • B. Eugène Schueller
    Eugène Schueller was a French chemist and entrepreneur best known as the founder of the global cosmetics company L'Oréal.
  • C. George Heilmeier
    George Heilmeier was an American engineer and inventor best known for pioneering liquid crystal display (LCD) technology and later leading major research organizations in industry and government.
  • D. Walter Paepcke
    Walter Paepcke was an American industrialist and philanthropist who transformed Aspen, Colorado into a cultural and intellectual center and established the Aspen Institute as a forum for global dialogue.
  • E. Allen B. DuMont
    Allen B. DuMont was an American electronics engineer and television pioneer known for developing the modern cathode-ray tube and founding one of the earliest commercial television networks.
  • 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: Chester Carlson
Triple: [Xerox, foundedBy, Chester Carlson]
Generated description
Chester Carlson was an American physicist and inventor best known for creating xerography, the dry photocopying process that led to the founding of Xerox.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Chester Carlson
Target entity description: Chester Carlson was an American physicist and inventor best known for creating xerography, the dry photocopying process that led to the founding of Xerox.
  • A. Theodore Case
    Theodore Case was an American inventor and pioneer of sound-on-film technology whose work helped enable synchronized audio in motion pictures.
  • B. Eugène Schueller
    Eugène Schueller was a French chemist and entrepreneur best known as the founder of the global cosmetics company L'Oréal.
  • C. George Heilmeier
    George Heilmeier was an American engineer and inventor best known for pioneering liquid crystal display (LCD) technology and later leading major research organizations in industry and government.
  • D. Walter Paepcke
    Walter Paepcke was an American industrialist and philanthropist who transformed Aspen, Colorado into a cultural and intellectual center and established the Aspen Institute as a forum for global dialogue.
  • E. Allen B. DuMont
    Allen B. DuMont was an American electronics engineer and television pioneer known for developing the modern cathode-ray tube and founding one of the earliest commercial television networks.
  • 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.