Triple
T57342
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Ford Motor Company |
E1133
|
entity |
| Predicate | keyPerson |
P256
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
William Clay Ford Jr.
William Clay Ford Jr. is an American businessman and great-grandson of Henry Ford who has served as executive chairman of Ford Motor Company and is known for promoting sustainability and innovation within the company.
|
E13445
|
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: William Clay Ford Jr. | Statement: [Ford Motor Company, keyPerson, William Clay Ford Jr.]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Clay Ford Jr. Context triple: [Ford Motor Company, keyPerson, William Clay Ford Jr.]
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A.
Edsel Ford
Edsel Ford was an American business executive and the only son of Henry Ford, best known for serving as president of the Ford Motor Company during the early 20th century.
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B.
Edsel
Edsel was a short-lived and commercially unsuccessful automobile marque introduced by Ford in the late 1950s, now often cited as a classic example of a major product failure in marketing history.
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C.
Alan Mulally
Alan Mulally is an American engineer and business executive best known for leading Ford Motor Company’s turnaround as its CEO during the late 2000s financial crisis.
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D.
Mary Barra
Mary Barra is an American business executive who became the first female CEO of a major global automaker when she took the helm of General Motors.
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E.
Henry Ford
Henry Ford was an American industrialist and pioneer of modern assembly-line mass production who revolutionized the automobile industry and made cars affordable to the general public.
- 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: William Clay Ford Jr. Triple: [Ford Motor Company, keyPerson, William Clay Ford Jr.]
Generated description
William Clay Ford Jr. is an American businessman and great-grandson of Henry Ford who has served as executive chairman of Ford Motor Company and is known for promoting sustainability and innovation within the company.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Clay Ford Jr. Target entity description: William Clay Ford Jr. is an American businessman and great-grandson of Henry Ford who has served as executive chairman of Ford Motor Company and is known for promoting sustainability and innovation within the company.
-
A.
Edsel Ford
Edsel Ford was an American business executive and the only son of Henry Ford, best known for serving as president of the Ford Motor Company during the early 20th century.
-
B.
Edsel
Edsel was a short-lived and commercially unsuccessful automobile marque introduced by Ford in the late 1950s, now often cited as a classic example of a major product failure in marketing history.
-
C.
Alan Mulally
Alan Mulally is an American engineer and business executive best known for leading Ford Motor Company’s turnaround as its CEO during the late 2000s financial crisis.
-
D.
Mary Barra
Mary Barra is an American business executive who became the first female CEO of a major global automaker when she took the helm of General Motors.
-
E.
Henry Ford
Henry Ford was an American industrialist and pioneer of modern assembly-line mass production who revolutionized the automobile industry and made cars affordable to the general public.
- 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_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_69a2981ccdc0819093346109c126ea96 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 7:24 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69a2987873d48190974c9847c3a51586 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 7:25 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69a2992eef7881908cb4cff9d91aab98 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 7:28 a.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:50 a.m.