Triple
T361426
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Costco Wholesale Corporation |
E7861
|
entity |
| Predicate | employerOf |
P7
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Ron Vachris
Ron Vachris is a retail executive best known as a senior leader and later CEO of Costco Wholesale, helping guide the company’s global warehouse-club operations and strategy.
|
E117283
|
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: Ron Vachris | Statement: [Costco Wholesale Corporation, employerOf, Ron Vachris]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ron Vachris Context triple: [Costco Wholesale Corporation, employerOf, Ron Vachris]
-
A.
Sidney Verba
Sidney Verba was a prominent American political scientist renowned for his pioneering work on political participation, comparative politics, and civic culture.
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B.
Neil Meron
Neil Meron is an American film and television producer best known for his work on acclaimed musical adaptations and award-winning projects such as "Chicago."
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C.
William Nolan
William Nolan is an editor known for his work on editions of classic adventure literature, including "The Mark of Zorro."
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D.
Rajiv Joseph
Rajiv Joseph is an American playwright known for his darkly comic, emotionally resonant works such as the Pulitzer Prize–finalist play "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo."
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E.
Leon Feldhendler
Leon Feldhendler was a Polish Jewish resistance leader and Holocaust survivor best known for co-organizing the 1943 prisoner uprising at the Sobibor extermination camp.
- 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: Ron Vachris Triple: [Costco Wholesale Corporation, employerOf, Ron Vachris]
Generated description
Ron Vachris is a retail executive best known as a senior leader and later CEO of Costco Wholesale, helping guide the company’s global warehouse-club operations and strategy.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ron Vachris Target entity description: Ron Vachris is a retail executive best known as a senior leader and later CEO of Costco Wholesale, helping guide the company’s global warehouse-club operations and strategy.
-
A.
Sidney Verba
Sidney Verba was a prominent American political scientist renowned for his pioneering work on political participation, comparative politics, and civic culture.
-
B.
Neil Meron
Neil Meron is an American film and television producer best known for his work on acclaimed musical adaptations and award-winning projects such as "Chicago."
-
C.
William Nolan
William Nolan is an editor known for his work on editions of classic adventure literature, including "The Mark of Zorro."
-
D.
Rajiv Joseph
Rajiv Joseph is an American playwright known for his darkly comic, emotionally resonant works such as the Pulitzer Prize–finalist play "Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo."
-
E.
Leon Feldhendler
Leon Feldhendler was a Polish Jewish resistance leader and Holocaust survivor best known for co-organizing the 1943 prisoner uprising at the Sobibor extermination camp.
- 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_69a2e7e880008190a6ad7e06e5d03007 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a2ebce64c88190a0a8edcc7095f78b |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 1:21 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ac256a80f08190841759d0f6132e24 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 1:17 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69ac2641aee88190985d644563c8f602 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 1:21 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69ac26e269b081908398530ad3fa23bc |
completed | March 7, 2026, 1:23 p.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.