Triple

T4616653
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle E100883 entity
Predicate associatedWithPerson P37 FINISHED
Object Walter A. Shewhart
Walter A. Shewhart was an American physicist, engineer, and statistician regarded as a pioneer of statistical quality control and modern quality management.
E469614 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: Walter A. Shewhart | Statement: [Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle, associatedWithPerson, Walter A. Shewhart]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter A. Shewhart
Context triple: [Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle, associatedWithPerson, Walter A. Shewhart]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. 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*.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Walter A. Shewhart
Triple: [Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle, associatedWithPerson, Walter A. Shewhart]
Generated description
Walter A. Shewhart was an American physicist, engineer, and statistician regarded as a pioneer of statistical quality control and modern quality management.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter A. Shewhart
Target entity description: Walter A. Shewhart was an American physicist, engineer, and statistician regarded as a pioneer of statistical quality control and modern quality management.
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. 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*.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69be4390976c81908ab31c4e25f96064 completed March 21, 2026, 7:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be445a727881909a458a11a0defe61 completed March 21, 2026, 7:10 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be45bc7b2c8190aa293d2c10077864 completed March 21, 2026, 7:16 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:12 p.m.