Triple
T3823925
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Ball Corporation |
E88639
|
entity |
| Predicate | foundedBy |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Edmund Ball
Edmund Ball was an American industrialist and member of the Ball family who helped build Ball Corporation into a major manufacturer of glass jars and packaging products.
|
E391052
|
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: Edmund Ball | Statement: [Ball Corporation, foundedBy, Edmund Ball]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edmund Ball Context triple: [Ball Corporation, foundedBy, Edmund Ball]
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A.
William Humphrey
William Humphrey was an American actor and director of the silent film era, known for his character roles in early 20th-century cinema.
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B.
Francis Billington
Francis Billington was a Mayflower passenger and early Plymouth Colony settler known for his mischief and involvement in several notable incidents in the colony’s early years.
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C.
William Orlamond
William Orlamond was a Danish-born American character actor of the silent film era who appeared in numerous Hollywood productions in the 1910s and 1920s.
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D.
Thomas Culpeper
Thomas Culpeper was a colonial-era English noble and land proprietor associated with the governance and territorial development of what became Virginia.
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E.
Richard Nicolls
Richard Nicolls was a 17th-century English military officer and colonial governor best known for leading the expedition that captured New Amsterdam from the Dutch and became the first English governor of New York.
- 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: Edmund Ball Triple: [Ball Corporation, foundedBy, Edmund Ball]
Generated description
Edmund Ball was an American industrialist and member of the Ball family who helped build Ball Corporation into a major manufacturer of glass jars and packaging products.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edmund Ball Target entity description: Edmund Ball was an American industrialist and member of the Ball family who helped build Ball Corporation into a major manufacturer of glass jars and packaging products.
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A.
William Humphrey
William Humphrey was an American actor and director of the silent film era, known for his character roles in early 20th-century cinema.
-
B.
Francis Billington
Francis Billington was a Mayflower passenger and early Plymouth Colony settler known for his mischief and involvement in several notable incidents in the colony’s early years.
-
C.
William Orlamond
William Orlamond was a Danish-born American character actor of the silent film era who appeared in numerous Hollywood productions in the 1910s and 1920s.
-
D.
Thomas Culpeper
Thomas Culpeper was a colonial-era English noble and land proprietor associated with the governance and territorial development of what became Virginia.
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E.
Richard Nicolls
Richard Nicolls was a 17th-century English military officer and colonial governor best known for leading the expedition that captured New Amsterdam from the Dutch and became the first English governor of New York.
- 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_69aed9538cf881909d9ce8ca4ac7c18c |
completed | March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69aeeb6223808190aee0c15259eeeecd |
completed | March 9, 2026, 3:46 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b4fb4c70008190bb8712f46f40d6f8 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 6:08 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b4fc5747208190a7af99c10014080e |
completed | March 14, 2026, 6:12 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b4fcc395ec8190a781e982b935c2f6 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 6:14 a.m. |
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:17 p.m.