Triple
T3380741
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Xerox |
E71175
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableEmployee |
P304
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Gary Starkweather
Gary Starkweather was an American engineer and inventor best known for creating the laser printer while working at Xerox.
|
E353619
|
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: Gary Starkweather | Statement: [Xerox, notableEmployee, Gary Starkweather]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gary Starkweather Context triple: [Xerox, notableEmployee, Gary Starkweather]
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A.
James Carroll Beckwith
James Carroll Beckwith was an American portrait and genre painter of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his refined academic style and contributions to the New York art scene.
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B.
Henry Bowers
Henry Bowers is a sadistic teenage bully and one of the primary human antagonists in the 2017 horror film adaptation of Stephen King’s "It."
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C.
Gabriel Harris
Gabriel Harris is an American percussionist and musician best known for his work with his mother, folk singer and activist Joan Baez, as well as other world and folk music artists.
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D.
Allan Melvill
Allan Melvill was an American merchant and importer best known as the father of novelist Herman Melville.
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E.
John Holmes
John Holmes was a famous American adult film actor of the 1970s and early 1980s, widely known for his prolific career and distinctive physical attributes.
- 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: Gary Starkweather Triple: [Xerox, notableEmployee, Gary Starkweather]
Generated description
Gary Starkweather was an American engineer and inventor best known for creating the laser printer while working at Xerox.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gary Starkweather Target entity description: Gary Starkweather was an American engineer and inventor best known for creating the laser printer while working at Xerox.
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A.
James Carroll Beckwith
James Carroll Beckwith was an American portrait and genre painter of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for his refined academic style and contributions to the New York art scene.
-
B.
Henry Bowers
Henry Bowers is a sadistic teenage bully and one of the primary human antagonists in the 2017 horror film adaptation of Stephen King’s "It."
-
C.
Gabriel Harris
Gabriel Harris is an American percussionist and musician best known for his work with his mother, folk singer and activist Joan Baez, as well as other world and folk music artists.
-
D.
Allan Melvill
Allan Melvill was an American merchant and importer best known as the father of novelist Herman Melville.
-
E.
John Holmes
John Holmes was a famous American adult film actor of the 1970s and early 1980s, widely known for his prolific career and distinctive physical attributes.
- 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.