Triple

T363324
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Columbia Sportswear E7902 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Gert Boyle
Gert Boyle was an American businesswoman and longtime chair of Columbia Sportswear, widely known for her “One Tough Mother” persona and pivotal role in building the company into a global outdoor apparel brand.
E118178 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: Gert Boyle | Statement: [Columbia Sportswear, foundedBy, Gert Boyle]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gert Boyle
Context triple: [Columbia Sportswear, foundedBy, Gert Boyle]
  • A. Rudulph Evans
    Rudulph Evans was an American sculptor best known for creating the statue of Thomas Jefferson housed in the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
  • B. Garth Stevenson
    Garth Stevenson is a Canadian-born double bassist and composer known for his atmospheric, nature-inspired film scores and solo work.
  • 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. Jim Pollard
    Jim Pollard was an American professional basketball forward, best known as a Hall of Famer and key early star of the Minneapolis Lakers dynasty.
  • E. Graeme Gibson
    Graeme Gibson was a Canadian novelist, environmentalist, and cultural advocate known for his contributions to Canadian literature and his long partnership with writer Margaret Atwood.
  • 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: Gert Boyle
Triple: [Columbia Sportswear, foundedBy, Gert Boyle]
Generated description
Gert Boyle was an American businesswoman and longtime chair of Columbia Sportswear, widely known for her “One Tough Mother” persona and pivotal role in building the company into a global outdoor apparel brand.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gert Boyle
Target entity description: Gert Boyle was an American businesswoman and longtime chair of Columbia Sportswear, widely known for her “One Tough Mother” persona and pivotal role in building the company into a global outdoor apparel brand.
  • A. Rudulph Evans
    Rudulph Evans was an American sculptor best known for creating the statue of Thomas Jefferson housed in the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
  • B. Garth Stevenson
    Garth Stevenson is a Canadian-born double bassist and composer known for his atmospheric, nature-inspired film scores and solo work.
  • 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. Jim Pollard
    Jim Pollard was an American professional basketball forward, best known as a Hall of Famer and key early star of the Minneapolis Lakers dynasty.
  • E. Graeme Gibson
    Graeme Gibson was a Canadian novelist, environmentalist, and cultural advocate known for his contributions to Canadian literature and his long partnership with writer Margaret Atwood.
  • 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_69ac2a016f68819098d8fa3ec0f6adfa completed March 7, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac2a6dedb88190b2943c056d99e02f completed March 7, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac2ae2a5748190ba518f29d7564822 completed March 7, 2026, 1:40 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.