Triple

T365463
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Medtronic E7950 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Earl Bakken
Earl Bakken was an American engineer and inventor best known for creating the first wearable, battery-powered pacemaker and co-founding the medical technology company Medtronic.
E46435 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: Earl Bakken | Statement: [Medtronic, foundedBy, Earl Bakken]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Earl Bakken
Context triple: [Medtronic, foundedBy, Earl Bakken]
  • A. Frank B. Jewett
    Frank B. Jewett was an American electrical engineer and physicist who served as the first president of Bell Telephone Laboratories and played a major role in organizing U.S. scientific research during World War II.
  • B. Carl F. Wallin
    Carl F. Wallin was an early 20th-century American businessman best known as the co-founder of the Nordstrom retail company.
  • C. Robert B. Leighton
    Robert B. Leighton was an American experimental physicist and educator known for his contributions to cosmic-ray and infrared astronomy and for coauthoring the influential Feynman Lectures on Physics.
  • D. Harold Hazen
    Harold Hazen was an American electrical engineer and MIT professor known for his pioneering work in control systems and his role in developing early analog computing devices.
  • E. William R. Sears
    William R. Sears was an influential American aerodynamicist and engineer known for his pioneering contributions to theoretical aerodynamics and aircraft design.
  • 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: Earl Bakken
Triple: [Medtronic, foundedBy, Earl Bakken]
Generated description
Earl Bakken was an American engineer and inventor best known for creating the first wearable, battery-powered pacemaker and co-founding the medical technology company Medtronic.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Earl Bakken
Target entity description: Earl Bakken was an American engineer and inventor best known for creating the first wearable, battery-powered pacemaker and co-founding the medical technology company Medtronic.
  • A. Frank B. Jewett
    Frank B. Jewett was an American electrical engineer and physicist who served as the first president of Bell Telephone Laboratories and played a major role in organizing U.S. scientific research during World War II.
  • B. Carl F. Wallin
    Carl F. Wallin was an early 20th-century American businessman best known as the co-founder of the Nordstrom retail company.
  • C. Robert B. Leighton
    Robert B. Leighton was an American experimental physicist and educator known for his contributions to cosmic-ray and infrared astronomy and for coauthoring the influential Feynman Lectures on Physics.
  • D. Harold Hazen
    Harold Hazen was an American electrical engineer and MIT professor known for his pioneering work in control systems and his role in developing early analog computing devices.
  • E. William R. Sears
    William R. Sears was an influential American aerodynamicist and engineer known for his pioneering contributions to theoretical aerodynamics and aircraft design.
  • 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_69a2ebe7d4d0819083daeb7686ae1914 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3e8668b848190b68d19819ac134df completed March 1, 2026, 7:19 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3ea5beecc8190b128db693db39e95 completed March 1, 2026, 7:27 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3eba438548190912d5a4a9c0e6528 completed March 1, 2026, 7:32 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.