Triple

T3805244
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject E-Trade E92989 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Bernard A. Newcomb
Bernard A. Newcomb is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the online brokerage firm E-Trade.
E507608 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: Bernard A. Newcomb | Statement: [E-Trade, foundedBy, Bernard A. Newcomb]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bernard A. Newcomb
Context triple: [E-Trade, foundedBy, Bernard A. Newcomb]
  • A. William Henry Pickering
    William Henry Pickering was an American astronomer known for his discoveries of planetary satellites and contributions to lunar and planetary observation.
  • B. John B. Purcell
    John B. Purcell was a 19th-century American Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Archbishop of Cincinnati and was known for his public debates defending Catholic doctrine.
  • C. Frederick H. Gillett
    Frederick H. Gillett was an American figure notable for helping establish the American Cancer Society, a leading nonprofit organization dedicated to cancer research and patient support.
  • D. Louis D. Lighton
    Louis D. Lighton was an American film producer active during Hollywood’s studio era, known for overseeing a range of major motion pictures in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • E. Eugene F. Stoermer
    Eugene F. Stoermer was an American freshwater ecologist best known for helping introduce and popularize the term "Anthropocene" to describe humanity’s profound impact on the Earth’s systems.
  • 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: Bernard A. Newcomb
Triple: [E-Trade, foundedBy, Bernard A. Newcomb]
Generated description
Bernard A. Newcomb is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the online brokerage firm E-Trade.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bernard A. Newcomb
Target entity description: Bernard A. Newcomb is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the online brokerage firm E-Trade.
  • A. William Henry Pickering
    William Henry Pickering was an American astronomer known for his discoveries of planetary satellites and contributions to lunar and planetary observation.
  • B. John B. Purcell
    John B. Purcell was a 19th-century American Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Archbishop of Cincinnati and was known for his public debates defending Catholic doctrine.
  • C. Frederick H. Gillett
    Frederick H. Gillett was an American figure notable for helping establish the American Cancer Society, a leading nonprofit organization dedicated to cancer research and patient support.
  • D. Louis D. Lighton
    Louis D. Lighton was an American film producer active during Hollywood’s studio era, known for overseeing a range of major motion pictures in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • E. Eugene F. Stoermer
    Eugene F. Stoermer was an American freshwater ecologist best known for helping introduce and popularize the term "Anthropocene" to describe humanity’s profound impact on the Earth’s systems.
  • 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_69aed96a60088190ab1df8390fffc935 completed March 9, 2026, 2:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aee7bd95e881908649ce512f7470b0 completed March 9, 2026, 3:31 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69befe3ba3848190bcd62dd21229ca67 completed March 21, 2026, 8:23 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf020b007881908ffc5fd50f89a309 completed March 21, 2026, 8:39 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf02562e048190b5583f2f959b6c84 completed March 21, 2026, 8:40 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:16 p.m.