Triple
T5022339
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Tully Friedman |
E112881
|
entity |
| Predicate | coFounded |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Hellman & Friedman |
E13786
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Hellman & Friedman | Statement: [Tully Friedman, coFounded, Hellman & Friedman]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hellman & Friedman Context triple: [Tully Friedman, coFounded, Hellman & Friedman]
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A.
Hellman & Friedman
chosen
Hellman & Friedman is a San Francisco–based private equity firm known for large-scale investments in technology, financial services, and other sectors.
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B.
Hellman
Hellman is a surname most notably associated with Martin Hellman, the American cryptologist and co-inventor of the Diffie–Hellman key exchange.
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C.
Jan Friedman
Jan Friedman is a member of the Friedman family, known primarily as the child of economist Rose Friedman and thus part of a prominent lineage in economic thought.
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D.
Sidney Finkelstein
Sidney Finkelstein was an American Marxist literary and music critic known for his analyses of culture and the arts from a leftist perspective.
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E.
Hellman family
The Hellman family is a surname-bearing family line, likely encompassing multiple related individuals such as Herman Wouk Hellman.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69bd4435c2f48190be593158cbfcf8a3 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd73656edc8190b802ad38d9552b58 |
completed | March 20, 2026, 4:18 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69be9282e2b08190abfa2c3e450957d4 |
completed | March 21, 2026, 12:43 p.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:36 p.m.