Triple

T4946281
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Crankstart E111058 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Michael Moritz
Michael Moritz is a Welsh-born venture capitalist, former journalist, and longtime Sequoia Capital partner known for early investments in companies like Google and for his major philanthropic contributions to education and the arts.
E480681 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: Michael Moritz | Statement: [Crankstart, foundedBy, Michael Moritz]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michael Moritz
Context triple: [Crankstart, foundedBy, Michael Moritz]
  • A. Jonathan Tisch
    Jonathan Tisch is an American businessman and philanthropist best known as the chairman and CEO of Loews Hotels and co-owner of the New York Giants.
  • B. Vinod Khosla
    Vinod Khosla is an Indian-American engineer, billionaire venture capitalist, and co-founder of Sun Microsystems known for his influential role in Silicon Valley and early-stage technology investing.
  • C. Peter Thiel
    Peter Thiel is a German-American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist best known as a co-founder of PayPal and an early investor in Facebook.
  • D. Mitchell Kapor
    Mitchell Kapor is an American entrepreneur and software pioneer best known for founding Lotus Development Corporation and co-creating the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet, as well as for his philanthropy and advocacy in technology and civil liberties.
  • E. Edward Zuckerberg
    Edward Zuckerberg is an American dentist and technology enthusiast best known as the father of Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg.
  • 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: Michael Moritz
Triple: [Crankstart, foundedBy, Michael Moritz]
Generated description
Michael Moritz is a Welsh-born venture capitalist, former journalist, and longtime Sequoia Capital partner known for early investments in companies like Google and for his major philanthropic contributions to education and the arts.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michael Moritz
Target entity description: Michael Moritz is a Welsh-born venture capitalist, former journalist, and longtime Sequoia Capital partner known for early investments in companies like Google and for his major philanthropic contributions to education and the arts.
  • A. Jonathan Tisch
    Jonathan Tisch is an American businessman and philanthropist best known as the chairman and CEO of Loews Hotels and co-owner of the New York Giants.
  • B. Vinod Khosla
    Vinod Khosla is an Indian-American engineer, billionaire venture capitalist, and co-founder of Sun Microsystems known for his influential role in Silicon Valley and early-stage technology investing.
  • C. Peter Thiel
    Peter Thiel is a German-American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist best known as a co-founder of PayPal and an early investor in Facebook.
  • D. Mitchell Kapor
    Mitchell Kapor is an American entrepreneur and software pioneer best known for founding Lotus Development Corporation and co-creating the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet, as well as for his philanthropy and advocacy in technology and civil liberties.
  • E. Edward Zuckerberg
    Edward Zuckerberg is an American dentist and technology enthusiast best known as the father of Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg.
  • 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_69bd441721cc819085c7e33fe0876818 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd70aa890c81908e685ec5e88cae1f completed March 20, 2026, 4:07 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be77c873dc81909129644cf929ed5e completed March 21, 2026, 10:49 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be78db96e081909eec1b8e287e6ef9 completed March 21, 2026, 10:54 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be7940416881908167cd24b11d8be0 completed March 21, 2026, 10:56 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:31 p.m.