Triple

T3780464
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject PayPal Mafia E85403 entity
Predicate hasMember P10 FINISHED
Object Roelof Botha
Roelof Botha is a South African-born venture capitalist and former PayPal executive, known for his influential role as a partner at Sequoia Capital backing major technology companies.
E387781 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: Roelof Botha | Statement: [PayPal Mafia, hasMember, Roelof Botha]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Roelof Botha
Context triple: [PayPal Mafia, hasMember, Roelof Botha]
  • A. Christiaan Bezuidenhout
    Christiaan Bezuidenhout is a South African professional golfer known for his success on the European Tour and his remarkable rise despite overcoming significant personal health challenges.
  • B. Werner Louw
    Werner Louw is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Louw.
  • C. Petrus Jacobus Joubert
    Petrus Jacobus "Piet" Joubert was a prominent 19th-century Boer military leader and politician who served as Commandant-General of the South African Republic (Transvaal).
  • D. Ben Viljoen
    Ben Viljoen was a prominent Boer general and political figure who played a key leadership role in the Second Boer War against the British.
  • E. Hendrik Klopper
    Hendrik Klopper was a South African Army officer and World War II general best known for his leadership of Allied forces during the 1942 Battle of Tobruk.
  • 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: Roelof Botha
Triple: [PayPal Mafia, hasMember, Roelof Botha]
Generated description
Roelof Botha is a South African-born venture capitalist and former PayPal executive, known for his influential role as a partner at Sequoia Capital backing major technology companies.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Roelof Botha
Target entity description: Roelof Botha is a South African-born venture capitalist and former PayPal executive, known for his influential role as a partner at Sequoia Capital backing major technology companies.
  • A. Christiaan Bezuidenhout
    Christiaan Bezuidenhout is a South African professional golfer known for his success on the European Tour and his remarkable rise despite overcoming significant personal health challenges.
  • B. Werner Louw
    Werner Louw is a person notable enough to be recognized as a bearer of the surname Louw.
  • C. Petrus Jacobus Joubert
    Petrus Jacobus "Piet" Joubert was a prominent 19th-century Boer military leader and politician who served as Commandant-General of the South African Republic (Transvaal).
  • D. Ben Viljoen
    Ben Viljoen was a prominent Boer general and political figure who played a key leadership role in the Second Boer War against the British.
  • E. Hendrik Klopper
    Hendrik Klopper was a South African Army officer and World War II general best known for his leadership of Allied forces during the 1942 Battle of Tobruk.
  • 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_69aed937fa8881908208ef3801060826 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aee3d84d7881909828903896b3cb7f completed March 9, 2026, 3:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4f040676c8190aa3a7952a9d6f62b completed March 14, 2026, 5:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4f159d7e88190a76d51378ba141d3 completed March 14, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4f220f9388190b2c3615f713f01f2 completed March 14, 2026, 5:29 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:12 p.m.