Triple
T3402880
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Scott McNealy |
E71696
|
entity |
| Predicate | businessPartner |
P282
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Andy Bechtolsheim |
E70883
|
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: Andy Bechtolsheim | Statement: [Scott McNealy, businessPartner, Andy Bechtolsheim]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Andy Bechtolsheim Context triple: [Scott McNealy, businessPartner, Andy Bechtolsheim]
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A.
Andy Bechtolsheim
chosen
Andy Bechtolsheim is a German-born electrical engineer, entrepreneur, and billionaire best known as a co-founder of Sun Microsystems and an early investor in Google.
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B.
Mike Markkula
Mike Markkula is an American entrepreneur and early investor who played a crucial role in the founding and initial growth of Apple Computer, serving as its first major backer and a key executive.
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C.
Vinod Khosla
Vinod Khosla is an Indian-American engineer, billionaire venture capitalist, and co-founder of Sun Microsystems known for his influential role in Silicon Valley and early-stage technology investing.
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D.
Irwin M. Jacobs
Irwin M. Jacobs is an American electrical engineer, co-founder and former CEO of Qualcomm, known for his pioneering contributions to digital wireless communications.
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E.
Andrew S. Grove
Andrew S. Grove was a Hungarian-American engineer, businessman, and longtime Intel CEO who played a pivotal role in shaping the modern semiconductor industry and personal computing.
- 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_69ad85aac4808190a092c9cc8911f584 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:20 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69adb8e78ec8819089417666dc29f412 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 5:59 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b360b8a5a88190a6c29b438bfec09d |
completed | March 13, 2026, 12:56 a.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:14 p.m.