Triple

T4679272
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Texas Christian University E103758 entity
Predicate founders P104 FINISHED
Object Randolph Clark
Randolph Clark was an American educator and co-founder of Texas Christian University, instrumental in shaping higher education in Texas in the late 19th century.
 E507108 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: Randolph Clark | Statement: [Texas Christian University, founders, Randolph Clark]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Randolph Clark
Context triple: [Texas Christian University, founders, Randolph Clark]
  • A. Randolph Roberts
    Randolph Roberts is an American actor best known for playing Chuck Cunningham on the television series "Happy Days."
  • B. Charles Pritchard
    Charles Pritchard was a 19th-century British astronomer and clergyman known for his pioneering work in stellar photometry and his influential role in developing observational astronomy at Oxford.
  • C. Carroll Clark
    Carroll Clark was a prominent Hollywood art director and production designer known for his influential work on classic films of the 1930s and 1940s.
  • D. David Dodd
    David Dodd was an American economist, Columbia Business School professor, and influential co-author of the classic value investing text "Security Analysis."
  • E. Joseph Howard
    Joseph Howard is the screenwriter best known for writing the hit 1992 comedy film "Sister Act."
  • 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: Randolph Clark
Triple: [Texas Christian University, founders, Randolph Clark]
Generated description
Randolph Clark was an American educator and co-founder of Texas Christian University, instrumental in shaping higher education in Texas in the late 19th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Randolph Clark
Target entity description: Randolph Clark was an American educator and co-founder of Texas Christian University, instrumental in shaping higher education in Texas in the late 19th century.
  • A. Randolph Roberts
    Randolph Roberts is an American actor best known for playing Chuck Cunningham on the television series "Happy Days."
  • B. Charles Pritchard
    Charles Pritchard was a 19th-century British astronomer and clergyman known for his pioneering work in stellar photometry and his influential role in developing observational astronomy at Oxford.
  • C. Carroll Clark
    Carroll Clark was a prominent Hollywood art director and production designer known for his influential work on classic films of the 1930s and 1940s.
  • D. David Dodd
    David Dodd was an American economist, Columbia Business School professor, and influential co-author of the classic value investing text "Security Analysis."
  • E. Joseph Howard
    Joseph Howard is the screenwriter best known for writing the hit 1992 comedy film "Sister Act."
  • 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_69bd636acffc819094e03c5bb53203d8 completed March 20, 2026, 3:10 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69befe41822c8190b406c192170af3d1 completed March 21, 2026, 8:23 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69beff4322308190b252820e7213f05e completed March 21, 2026, 8:27 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69beffe02d208190b857d6aaa4d85dae completed March 21, 2026, 8:30 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:16 p.m.