Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Macerich E100345 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Richard Cohen
Richard Cohen is an American businessman best known as a co-founder and early leader of the shopping center real estate company Macerich.
E455994 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: Richard Cohen | Statement: [Macerich, foundedBy, Richard Cohen]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Cohen
Context triple: [Macerich, foundedBy, Richard Cohen]
  • A. Frank Rich
    Frank Rich is an American essayist and former New York Times theater critic who later became a prominent television producer and creative consultant, notably on acclaimed HBO series.
  • B. Jeffrey Goldberg
    Jeffrey Goldberg is an American journalist and author known for his long-form reporting on foreign policy and national security, and for serving as editor-in-chief of The Atlantic.
  • C. Andrew Cockburn
    Andrew Cockburn is a British-American journalist and author known for his investigative reporting and books on national security, military affairs, and U.S. foreign policy.
  • D. James J. Kilpatrick
    James J. Kilpatrick was an American newspaper columnist and conservative political commentator best known for his syndicated columns and frequent appearances on television debate programs in the mid-20th century.
  • E. Bret Stephens
    Bret Stephens is an American conservative journalist and columnist known for his incisive political commentary and foreign policy analysis.
  • 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: Richard Cohen
Triple: [Macerich, foundedBy, Richard Cohen]
Generated description
Richard Cohen is an American businessman best known as a co-founder and early leader of the shopping center real estate company Macerich.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Cohen
Target entity description: Richard Cohen is an American businessman best known as a co-founder and early leader of the shopping center real estate company Macerich.
  • A. Frank Rich
    Frank Rich is an American essayist and former New York Times theater critic who later became a prominent television producer and creative consultant, notably on acclaimed HBO series.
  • B. Jeffrey Goldberg
    Jeffrey Goldberg is an American journalist and author known for his long-form reporting on foreign policy and national security, and for serving as editor-in-chief of The Atlantic.
  • C. Andrew Cockburn
    Andrew Cockburn is a British-American journalist and author known for his investigative reporting and books on national security, military affairs, and U.S. foreign policy.
  • D. James J. Kilpatrick
    James J. Kilpatrick was an American newspaper columnist and conservative political commentator best known for his syndicated columns and frequent appearances on television debate programs in the mid-20th century.
  • E. Bret Stephens
    Bret Stephens is an American conservative journalist and columnist known for his incisive political commentary and foreign policy analysis.
  • 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_69bd43cbc014819098b45f435908f88a completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd597462c08190bcdb3efd880778b1 completed March 20, 2026, 2:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bdfa60b3348190ac8e28f9e78e1d99 completed March 21, 2026, 1:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bdfbea628c81908f96e706d650ef9f completed March 21, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bdfc97fc54819093e0cff18a40bde2 completed March 21, 2026, 2:04 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:11 p.m.