Triple

T638461
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Fairchild Semiconductor E16677 entity
Predicate notableEmployee P304 FINISHED
Object Don Valentine
Don Valentine was a pioneering Silicon Valley venture capitalist and founder of Sequoia Capital, known for early investments in companies like Apple and Cisco.
E95932 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: Don Valentine | Statement: [Fairchild Semiconductor, notableEmployee, Don Valentine]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Don Valentine
Context triple: [Fairchild Semiconductor, notableEmployee, Don Valentine]
  • A. Jan Porcellis
    Jan Porcellis was a prominent Dutch Golden Age marine painter renowned for his atmospheric seascapes and innovative treatment of light and weather.
  • B. Brian VanDeMark
    Brian VanDeMark is an American historian and author known for his work on U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam War, including coauthoring influential studies of that conflict.
  • C. Charley St. James
    Charley St. James is a fictional character from the American prime-time soap opera "Falcon Crest," which centers on the intrigues and power struggles surrounding a California wine dynasty.
  • D. Richmond Valentine
    Richmond Valentine is the eccentric billionaire and eco-terrorist villain in the action-spy film "Kingsman: The Secret Service."
  • E. Sam De Grasse
    Sam De Grasse was a Canadian-born silent film actor best known for his villainous roles in early Hollywood adventure and drama films.
  • 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: Don Valentine
Triple: [Fairchild Semiconductor, notableEmployee, Don Valentine]
Generated description
Don Valentine was a pioneering Silicon Valley venture capitalist and founder of Sequoia Capital, known for early investments in companies like Apple and Cisco.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Don Valentine
Target entity description: Don Valentine was a pioneering Silicon Valley venture capitalist and founder of Sequoia Capital, known for early investments in companies like Apple and Cisco.
  • A. Jan Porcellis
    Jan Porcellis was a prominent Dutch Golden Age marine painter renowned for his atmospheric seascapes and innovative treatment of light and weather.
  • B. Brian VanDeMark
    Brian VanDeMark is an American historian and author known for his work on U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam War, including coauthoring influential studies of that conflict.
  • C. Charley St. James
    Charley St. James is a fictional character from the American prime-time soap opera "Falcon Crest," which centers on the intrigues and power struggles surrounding a California wine dynasty.
  • D. Richmond Valentine
    Richmond Valentine is the eccentric billionaire and eco-terrorist villain in the action-spy film "Kingsman: The Secret Service."
  • E. Sam De Grasse
    Sam De Grasse was a Canadian-born silent film actor best known for his villainous roles in early Hollywood adventure and drama films.
  • 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_69a4936be1c88190af56540324b57da7 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49ee95b188190a67b12e1899bcdda completed March 1, 2026, 8:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a76d69ade481909322f5f28f0050e4 completed March 3, 2026, 11:23 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a78257f9988190a04b8d764d820194 completed March 4, 2026, 12:52 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a78337cd4c8190bce8a0716a6e85e4 completed March 4, 2026, 12:56 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:35 p.m.