Triple

T4386794
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sean Parker E99262 entity
Predicate coFounded P104 FINISHED
Object Napster
Napster is a pioneering peer-to-peer file sharing service that revolutionized digital music distribution in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
 E435076 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: Napster | Statement: [Sean Parker, coFounded, Napster]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Napster
Context triple: [Sean Parker, coFounded, Napster]
  • A. Kazaa
    Kazaa is a peer-to-peer file-sharing application that became widely known in the early 2000s for enabling users to share music, videos, and other digital media over the internet.
  • B. Confinity
    Confinity was a software company co-founded by Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, and others that developed digital payment technology and later merged with X.com to form PayPal.
  • C. Excite
    Excite was a pioneering early web portal and search engine that played a major role in the first wave of consumer internet services in the 1990s.
  • D. BitTorrent
    BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol that enables efficient distribution of large amounts of data across many users without relying on a central server.
  • E. Lycos
    Lycos is an early web search engine and internet portal that was popular in the 1990s alongside rivals like AltaVista and Yahoo.
  • 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: Napster
Triple: [Sean Parker, coFounded, Napster]
Generated description
Napster is a pioneering peer-to-peer file sharing service that revolutionized digital music distribution in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Napster
Target entity description: Napster is a pioneering peer-to-peer file sharing service that revolutionized digital music distribution in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
  • A. Kazaa
    Kazaa is a peer-to-peer file-sharing application that became widely known in the early 2000s for enabling users to share music, videos, and other digital media over the internet.
  • B. Confinity
    Confinity was a software company co-founded by Max Levchin, Peter Thiel, and others that developed digital payment technology and later merged with X.com to form PayPal.
  • C. Excite
    Excite was a pioneering early web portal and search engine that played a major role in the first wave of consumer internet services in the 1990s.
  • D. BitTorrent
    BitTorrent is a peer-to-peer file sharing protocol that enables efficient distribution of large amounts of data across many users without relying on a central server.
  • E. Lycos
    Lycos is an early web search engine and internet portal that was popular in the 1990s alongside rivals like AltaVista and Yahoo.
  • 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_69b3454f739481909ff6c28331f0c0b9 completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b352669f608190b3aa7030d8073e04 completed March 12, 2026, 11:55 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5e52a0488819081fe724d592d8fdf completed March 14, 2026, 10:46 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5e619964081908193b4b40a940336 completed March 14, 2026, 10:50 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5e681fa5c819084ec0e9092275754 completed March 14, 2026, 10:51 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:19 p.m.