Triple
T4073555
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Manheim Auctions |
E86704
|
entity |
| Predicate | founder |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Sam Frankel
Sam Frankel was an American businessman best known for establishing Manheim Auctions, which grew into one of the world’s largest wholesale vehicle auction companies.
|
E504337
|
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: Sam Frankel | Statement: [Manheim Auctions, founder, Sam Frankel]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sam Frankel Context triple: [Manheim Auctions, founder, Sam Frankel]
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A.
Nick Frenkel
Nick Frenkel is a television producer best known for his work as an executive producer on the long-running comedy series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
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B.
Andrew Frankel
Andrew Frankel is an American businessman and co-president of the Wall Street brokerage firm Stuart Frankel & Co., known publicly for his marriage to actress Bridget Moynahan.
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C.
Jan Friedman
Jan Friedman is a member of the Friedman family, known primarily as the child of economist Rose Friedman and thus part of a prominent lineage in economic thought.
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D.
Leon Feldhendler
Leon Feldhendler was a Polish Jewish resistance leader and Holocaust survivor best known for co-organizing the 1943 prisoner uprising at the Sobibor extermination camp.
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E.
Ali Weinberg
Ali Weinberg is an American journalist and television news producer known for her work covering politics for major U.S. news networks.
- 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: Sam Frankel Triple: [Manheim Auctions, founder, Sam Frankel]
Generated description
Sam Frankel was an American businessman best known for establishing Manheim Auctions, which grew into one of the world’s largest wholesale vehicle auction companies.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sam Frankel Target entity description: Sam Frankel was an American businessman best known for establishing Manheim Auctions, which grew into one of the world’s largest wholesale vehicle auction companies.
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A.
Nick Frenkel
Nick Frenkel is a television producer best known for his work as an executive producer on the long-running comedy series "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia."
-
B.
Andrew Frankel
Andrew Frankel is an American businessman and co-president of the Wall Street brokerage firm Stuart Frankel & Co., known publicly for his marriage to actress Bridget Moynahan.
-
C.
Jan Friedman
Jan Friedman is a member of the Friedman family, known primarily as the child of economist Rose Friedman and thus part of a prominent lineage in economic thought.
-
D.
Leon Feldhendler
Leon Feldhendler was a Polish Jewish resistance leader and Holocaust survivor best known for co-organizing the 1943 prisoner uprising at the Sobibor extermination camp.
-
E.
Ali Weinberg
Ali Weinberg is an American journalist and television news producer known for her work covering politics for major U.S. news networks.
- 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_69aed93ebe448190a1f1686e28740ac9 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69aefc245d888190ae773f9c3077953b |
completed | March 9, 2026, 4:58 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69bef7dcea7481908c4430d07d7213cb |
completed | March 21, 2026, 7:56 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69bef8acecf48190a1d3f56640bf7784 |
completed | March 21, 2026, 7:59 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69bef92017948190906d1be3551b54c2 |
completed | March 21, 2026, 8:01 p.m. |
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:39 p.m.