Triple
T5765611
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | J.W. Foster and Sons |
E127205
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entity |
| Predicate | namedAfter |
P63
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Joseph William Foster |
E558272
|
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: Joseph William Foster | Statement: [J.W. Foster and Sons, namedAfter, Joseph William Foster]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joseph William Foster Context triple: [J.W. Foster and Sons, namedAfter, Joseph William Foster]
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A.
Joseph William Foster
chosen
Joseph William Foster was a pioneering British shoemaker and entrepreneur best known for creating some of the earliest spiked running shoes and founding the company that would evolve into the sportswear brand Reebok.
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B.
George Charles Foster
George Charles Foster, better known as Rube Foster, was a pioneering African American baseball pitcher, manager, and executive often called the "Father of Black Baseball" for founding and leading the Negro National League.
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C.
James Foster
James Foster is an economist known for his influential work on poverty measurement and social welfare, including co-developing the widely used Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) poverty indices.
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D.
Andrew Foster
Andrew Foster is a fictional character appearing in the Overdrive series.
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E.
William Wasbrough Foster
William Wasbrough Foster was a Canadian mountaineer, military officer, and civic leader known for his prominent role in early 20th-century Canadian alpinism and public service.
- 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_69c00834f6308190851b0abeddd8ed7e |
completed | March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c0296fa3e881909359bc39892ccc18 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 5:39 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c107dc9a2481908474defa2c849595 |
completed | March 23, 2026, 9:29 a.m. |
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:49 p.m.