Triple

T3823927
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ball Corporation E88639 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object George A. Ball
George A. Ball was an American businessman and industrialist best known for co-founding and leading the Ball Corporation, a major producer of glass jars and packaging products.
E875067 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: George A. Ball | Statement: [Ball Corporation, foundedBy, George A. Ball]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George A. Ball
Context triple: [Ball Corporation, foundedBy, George A. Ball]
  • A. Arthur K. Bolton
    Arthur K. Bolton was the Attorney General of Georgia who defended the state's abortion law in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Doe v. Bolton.
  • B. William H. Tooker
    William H. Tooker was an American stage and silent film actor active in the early 20th century.
  • C. William F. Baker
    William F. Baker was a prominent early 20th-century baseball executive and owner of the Philadelphia Phillies, after whom the Baker Bowl ballpark was named.
  • D. William F. Baker
    William F. Baker is an American structural engineer renowned for pioneering innovative skyscraper designs, including serving as the lead structural engineer for the Burj Khalifa.
  • E. William O. Baker
    William O. Baker was an influential American chemist and long-time Bell Labs research leader known for his major contributions to materials science and science policy.
  • 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: George A. Ball
Triple: [Ball Corporation, foundedBy, George A. Ball]
Generated description
George A. Ball was an American businessman and industrialist best known for co-founding and leading the Ball Corporation, a major producer of glass jars and packaging products.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George A. Ball
Target entity description: George A. Ball was an American businessman and industrialist best known for co-founding and leading the Ball Corporation, a major producer of glass jars and packaging products.
  • A. Arthur K. Bolton
    Arthur K. Bolton was the Attorney General of Georgia who defended the state's abortion law in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Doe v. Bolton.
  • B. William H. Tooker
    William H. Tooker was an American stage and silent film actor active in the early 20th century.
  • C. William F. Baker
    William F. Baker was a prominent early 20th-century baseball executive and owner of the Philadelphia Phillies, after whom the Baker Bowl ballpark was named.
  • D. William F. Baker
    William F. Baker is an American structural engineer renowned for pioneering innovative skyscraper designs, including serving as the lead structural engineer for the Burj Khalifa.
  • E. William O. Baker
    William O. Baker was an influential American chemist and long-time Bell Labs research leader known for his major contributions to materials science and science policy.
  • 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_69d96af89e48819093a6c149ac988391 completed April 10, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d96d85f9648190a43c8c924f5139e3 completed April 10, 2026, 9:37 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d96e1a36688190b97ced745bc6a30d completed April 10, 2026, 9:39 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:17 p.m.