Triple
T4616652
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle |
E100883
|
entity |
| Predicate | associatedWithPerson |
P37
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
W. Edwards Deming
W. Edwards Deming was an American statistician, professor, and management consultant renowned for pioneering modern quality management and continuous improvement practices in industry.
|
E467979
|
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: W. Edwards Deming | Statement: [Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle, associatedWithPerson, W. Edwards Deming]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: W. Edwards Deming Context triple: [Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle, associatedWithPerson, W. Edwards Deming]
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A.
Philip W. Crosby
Philip W. Crosby was an American public official who served as a key financial administrator for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the late 19th century.
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B.
Philip W. Crosby
Philip W. Crosby was an influential American businessman and quality management expert best known for promoting the concept of “zero defects” and authoring the seminal book *Quality Is Free*.
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C.
Raphael H. Deming
Raphael H. Deming was an American figure of sufficient local or historical prominence to be recognized as a notable burial at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Washington, D.C.
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D.
Phillip Crosby
Phillip Crosby was an American actor and singer best known as one of Bing Crosby’s twin sons who appeared in films and television during the mid-20th century.
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E.
Taiichi Ohno
Taiichi Ohno was a Japanese industrial engineer and executive at Toyota who is widely regarded as the father of the Toyota Production System and a pioneer of modern lean manufacturing.
- 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: W. Edwards Deming Triple: [Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle, associatedWithPerson, W. Edwards Deming]
Generated description
W. Edwards Deming was an American statistician, professor, and management consultant renowned for pioneering modern quality management and continuous improvement practices in industry.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: W. Edwards Deming Target entity description: W. Edwards Deming was an American statistician, professor, and management consultant renowned for pioneering modern quality management and continuous improvement practices in industry.
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A.
Philip W. Crosby
Philip W. Crosby was an American public official who served as a key financial administrator for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the late 19th century.
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B.
Philip W. Crosby
Philip W. Crosby was an influential American businessman and quality management expert best known for promoting the concept of “zero defects” and authoring the seminal book *Quality Is Free*.
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C.
Raphael H. Deming
Raphael H. Deming was an American figure of sufficient local or historical prominence to be recognized as a notable burial at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Washington, D.C.
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D.
Phillip Crosby
Phillip Crosby was an American actor and singer best known as one of Bing Crosby’s twin sons who appeared in films and television during the mid-20th century.
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E.
Taiichi Ohno
Taiichi Ohno was a Japanese industrial engineer and executive at Toyota who is widely regarded as the father of the Toyota Production System and a pioneer of modern lean manufacturing.
- 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_69bd43cf363c819087fd5ab441b4a3f4 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd59df3c3c8190be5db000f831d322 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 2:29 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69be399de7248190ba4cde67ff4cbff4 |
completed | March 21, 2026, 6:24 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69be3d05281481909a74ffb38fb5eb31 |
completed | March 21, 2026, 6:39 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69be3dc3ce048190a725ea4b8e8a1ad4 |
completed | March 21, 2026, 6:42 a.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:12 p.m.