Triple

T4672272
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Herbalife E103591 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Mark R. Hughes
Mark R. Hughes was an American entrepreneur best known as the founder and driving force behind the global nutrition and weight-management company Herbalife.
 E557788 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: Mark R. Hughes | Statement: [Herbalife, foundedBy, Mark R. Hughes]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Mark R. Hughes
Context triple: [Herbalife, foundedBy, Mark R. Hughes]
  • A. David A. Hughes
    David A. Hughes is a British composer and musician best known for his film and television scores.
  • B. Jeffrey S. Sutton
    Jeffrey S. Sutton is a prominent American jurist who serves as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and is known for his influential opinions on constitutional law and federalism.
  • C. Michael W. Hurley
    Michael W. Hurley is a notable individual recognized for achievements significant enough to be associated with the surname Hurley.
  • D. David Edward Hughes
    David Edward Hughes was a 19th-century British inventor and physicist best known for pioneering work in telegraphy, the carbon microphone, and early radio wave detection.
  • E. Michael T. Williamson
    Michael T. Williamson is an American actor best known for his role as Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue in the film Forrest Gump.
  • 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: Mark R. Hughes
Triple: [Herbalife, foundedBy, Mark R. Hughes]
Generated description
Mark R. Hughes was an American entrepreneur best known as the founder and driving force behind the global nutrition and weight-management company Herbalife.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Mark R. Hughes
Target entity description: Mark R. Hughes was an American entrepreneur best known as the founder and driving force behind the global nutrition and weight-management company Herbalife.
  • A. David A. Hughes
    David A. Hughes is a British composer and musician best known for his film and television scores.
  • B. Jeffrey S. Sutton
    Jeffrey S. Sutton is a prominent American jurist who serves as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and is known for his influential opinions on constitutional law and federalism.
  • C. Michael W. Hurley
    Michael W. Hurley is a notable individual recognized for achievements significant enough to be associated with the surname Hurley.
  • D. David Edward Hughes
    David Edward Hughes was a 19th-century British inventor and physicist best known for pioneering work in telegraphy, the carbon microphone, and early radio wave detection.
  • E. Michael T. Williamson
    Michael T. Williamson is an American actor best known for his role as Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue in the film Forrest Gump.
  • 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_69bd43dda32c8190938b37744ca270fc completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6351ca8c8190871b9bebdb7ab88d completed March 20, 2026, 3:10 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c0e2efb6d4819091ed08faec3b6c4a completed March 23, 2026, 6:51 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c0f1043c50819080aae54111134eaa completed March 23, 2026, 7:51 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c0f1a171c481909a897f342b6d6329 completed March 23, 2026, 7:54 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:15 p.m.