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]
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.