Triple

T363322
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Columbia Sportswear E7902 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Paul Lamfrom
Paul Lamfrom was a German-born businessman and patriarch of the family that built Columbia Sportswear into a major global outdoor apparel company.
 E96054 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: Paul Lamfrom | Statement: [Columbia Sportswear, foundedBy, Paul Lamfrom]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Paul Lamfrom
Context triple: [Columbia Sportswear, foundedBy, Paul Lamfrom]
  • A. Paul French
    Paul French is a pseudonym used by science fiction author Isaac Asimov, notably for his juvenile "Lucky Starr" space adventure series.
  • B. Geoff Petrie
    Geoff Petrie is a former American professional basketball guard best known as an early star for the Portland Trail Blazers and later a longtime NBA executive.
  • C. Brian Pippard
    Brian Pippard was a prominent British physicist known for his pioneering work in superconductivity and for serving as Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge.
  • D. Andrew Darwin
    Andrew Darwin is an individual notable for bearing the Darwin surname, historically associated with the famous naturalist Charles Darwin.
  • E. Peter Sargeant
    Peter Sargeant was a colonial-era jurist who served as a judge on the Court of Oyer and Terminer.
  • 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: Paul Lamfrom
Triple: [Columbia Sportswear, foundedBy, Paul Lamfrom]
Generated description
Paul Lamfrom was a German-born businessman and patriarch of the family that built Columbia Sportswear into a major global outdoor apparel company.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Paul Lamfrom
Target entity description: Paul Lamfrom was a German-born businessman and patriarch of the family that built Columbia Sportswear into a major global outdoor apparel company.
  • A. Paul French
    Paul French is a pseudonym used by science fiction author Isaac Asimov, notably for his juvenile "Lucky Starr" space adventure series.
  • B. Geoff Petrie
    Geoff Petrie is a former American professional basketball guard best known as an early star for the Portland Trail Blazers and later a longtime NBA executive.
  • C. Brian Pippard
    Brian Pippard was a prominent British physicist known for his pioneering work in superconductivity and for serving as Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge.
  • D. Andrew Darwin
    Andrew Darwin is an individual notable for bearing the Darwin surname, historically associated with the famous naturalist Charles Darwin.
  • E. Peter Sargeant
    Peter Sargeant was a colonial-era jurist who served as a judge on the Court of Oyer and Terminer.
  • 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_69a2ebd1016481909b8ba3b047a47145 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a76d6061508190b6fd3c907107fc63 completed March 3, 2026, 11:23 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a78328882881908d25e2fec0909da6 completed March 4, 2026, 12:56 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7839196fc819097800de8c360cef9 completed March 4, 2026, 12:57 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.