Triple

T6179088
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Charles Simonyi E137892 entity
Predicate notableProject P4 FINISHED
Object Microsoft Multiplan
Microsoft Multiplan was an early spreadsheet program from Microsoft, released in the early 1980s as a competitor to VisiCalc and a precursor to Excel.
E572856 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: Microsoft Multiplan | Statement: [Charles Simonyi, notableProject, Microsoft Multiplan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Microsoft Multiplan
Context triple: [Charles Simonyi, notableProject, Microsoft Multiplan]
  • A. Lotus 1-2-3
    Lotus 1-2-3 is a pioneering spreadsheet software program for personal computers that became a dominant business application in the 1980s.
  • B. MS-DOS Executive
    MS-DOS Executive is the simple file management and program-launching shell that served as the primary user interface in early versions of Microsoft Windows, notably Windows 1.0.
  • C. Peter Norton Computing
    Peter Norton Computing was a software company best known for its Norton Utilities and other PC maintenance tools that helped popularize system optimization and data recovery for early personal computers.
  • D. Micros Systems
    Micros Systems was a leading provider of point-of-sale and hospitality management software and hardware solutions for restaurants, hotels, and retail businesses.
  • E. MS-DOS
    MS-DOS is a command-line operating system that became the foundational software platform for early IBM-compatible personal computers in the 1980s and early 1990s.
  • 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: Microsoft Multiplan
Triple: [Charles Simonyi, notableProject, Microsoft Multiplan]
Generated description
Microsoft Multiplan was an early spreadsheet program from Microsoft, released in the early 1980s as a competitor to VisiCalc and a precursor to Excel.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Microsoft Multiplan
Target entity description: Microsoft Multiplan was an early spreadsheet program from Microsoft, released in the early 1980s as a competitor to VisiCalc and a precursor to Excel.
  • A. Lotus 1-2-3
    Lotus 1-2-3 is a pioneering spreadsheet software program for personal computers that became a dominant business application in the 1980s.
  • B. MS-DOS Executive
    MS-DOS Executive is the simple file management and program-launching shell that served as the primary user interface in early versions of Microsoft Windows, notably Windows 1.0.
  • C. Peter Norton Computing
    Peter Norton Computing was a software company best known for its Norton Utilities and other PC maintenance tools that helped popularize system optimization and data recovery for early personal computers.
  • D. Micros Systems
    Micros Systems was a leading provider of point-of-sale and hospitality management software and hardware solutions for restaurants, hotels, and retail businesses.
  • E. MS-DOS
    MS-DOS is a command-line operating system that became the foundational software platform for early IBM-compatible personal computers in the 1980s and early 1990s.
  • 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_69c008a80f748190ba3d07ffc81acb29 completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c05dcb77948190b5385438f81bf0a8 completed March 22, 2026, 9:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c141bf3f4081909849e38d322da251 completed March 23, 2026, 1:35 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c14626cab4819092843ff0ea83a6f1 completed March 23, 2026, 1:54 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c146d749dc8190b59f6e0001b5729d completed March 23, 2026, 1:57 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:18 p.m.