Triple

T5305963
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bausch + Lomb E120103 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object John Jacob Bausch
John Jacob Bausch was a German-American optician and entrepreneur who co-founded the major eye health and optics company Bausch & Lomb in the 19th century.
 E510922 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: John Jacob Bausch | Statement: [Bausch + Lomb, foundedBy, John Jacob Bausch]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Jacob Bausch
Context triple: [Bausch + Lomb, foundedBy, John Jacob Bausch]
  • A. William Candler
    William Candler was a son of Asa Griggs Candler, the American business magnate and founder of The Coca-Cola Company.
  • B. Herbert Kalmus
    Herbert Kalmus was an American scientist and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and longtime leader of Technicolor, which revolutionized color motion picture technology.
  • C. Carl Zeiss
    Carl Zeiss is a renowned German optics manufacturer known for producing high-quality lenses and precision optical systems used in cameras, microscopes, and other imaging devices.
  • D. Alvan Clark
    Alvan Clark was a 19th-century American telescope maker and astronomer renowned for crafting some of the largest and most precise refracting telescopes of his time.
  • E. Gottlieb Hering
    Gottlieb Hering was a German SS officer who served as a commandant in the Nazi extermination camp system during the Holocaust.
  • 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: John Jacob Bausch
Triple: [Bausch + Lomb, foundedBy, John Jacob Bausch]
Generated description
John Jacob Bausch was a German-American optician and entrepreneur who co-founded the major eye health and optics company Bausch & Lomb in the 19th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Jacob Bausch
Target entity description: John Jacob Bausch was a German-American optician and entrepreneur who co-founded the major eye health and optics company Bausch & Lomb in the 19th century.
  • A. William Candler
    William Candler was a son of Asa Griggs Candler, the American business magnate and founder of The Coca-Cola Company.
  • B. Herbert Kalmus
    Herbert Kalmus was an American scientist and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and longtime leader of Technicolor, which revolutionized color motion picture technology.
  • C. Carl Zeiss
    Carl Zeiss is a renowned German optics manufacturer known for producing high-quality lenses and precision optical systems used in cameras, microscopes, and other imaging devices.
  • D. Alvan Clark
    Alvan Clark was a 19th-century American telescope maker and astronomer renowned for crafting some of the largest and most precise refracting telescopes of his time.
  • E. Gottlieb Hering
    Gottlieb Hering was a German SS officer who served as a commandant in the Nazi extermination camp system during the Holocaust.
  • 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_69bd44704be88190acdb2ac481b0ff55 completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd851dd0d081909c0bf1423278ad8a completed March 20, 2026, 5:34 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf10f77b048190b8d3b39b900008d8 completed March 21, 2026, 9:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf1186f1988190893e8d1af8623f6d completed March 21, 2026, 9:45 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf1226ddd08190a39799fd0db58694 completed March 21, 2026, 9:48 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:53 p.m.