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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.