Triple

T57065
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Giving Pledge E1128 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object Melinda French Gates
Melinda French Gates is an American philanthropist and former Microsoft executive best known for co-founding the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and her global work on health, education, and gender equality.
E95 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: Melinda French Gates | Statement: [The Giving Pledge, founder, Melinda French Gates]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Melinda French Gates
Context triple: [The Giving Pledge, founder, Melinda French Gates]
  • A. Jennifer Katharine Gates
    Jennifer Katharine Gates is an American equestrian and medical doctor best known as the eldest daughter of philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates.
  • B. Bill and Melinda Gates
    Bill and Melinda Gates are American philanthropists best known for founding and leading the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the world’s largest private charitable organizations focused on global health, education, and poverty alleviation.
  • C. Donna Zuckerberg
    Donna Zuckerberg is a classicist, writer, and editor-in-chief of the online journal Eidolon, known for her work on how the classics are used in contemporary culture and online misogyny.
  • D. Michelle Obama
    Michelle Obama is an American lawyer, author, and former First Lady of the United States known for her advocacy on education, health, and military families.
  • E. Oprah Winfrey
    Oprah Winfrey is an American talk show host, media executive, actress, and philanthropist who became one of the most influential and wealthy figures in global entertainment and culture.
  • 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: Melinda French Gates
Triple: [The Giving Pledge, founder, Melinda French Gates]
Generated description
Melinda French Gates is an American philanthropist and former Microsoft executive best known for co-founding the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and her global work on health, education, and gender equality.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Melinda French Gates
Target entity description: Melinda French Gates is an American philanthropist and former Microsoft executive best known for co-founding the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and her global work on health, education, and gender equality.
  • A. Jennifer Katharine Gates
    Jennifer Katharine Gates is an American equestrian and medical doctor best known as the eldest daughter of philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates.
  • B. Bill and Melinda Gates chosen
    Bill and Melinda Gates are American philanthropists best known for founding and leading the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the world’s largest private charitable organizations focused on global health, education, and poverty alleviation.
  • C. Donna Zuckerberg
    Donna Zuckerberg is a classicist, writer, and editor-in-chief of the online journal Eidolon, known for her work on how the classics are used in contemporary culture and online misogyny.
  • D. Michelle Obama
    Michelle Obama is an American lawyer, author, and former First Lady of the United States known for her advocacy on education, health, and military families.
  • E. Oprah Winfrey
    Oprah Winfrey is an American talk show host, media executive, actress, and philanthropist who became one of the most influential and wealthy figures in global entertainment and culture.
  • F. None of above.

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_69a248adc5b48190aa8db9fb092fb28a completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:45 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a24b1bf2c081908f20e13939b713ff completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:55 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a266e716048190a57f681fccb4fdeb completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a267b740388190a321023aa52a539a completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:57 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2685dc64c8190bd611985d1bc27a3 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 4 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:50 a.m.