Triple

T722792
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject United Parcel Service E14654 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object James E. Casey
James E. Casey was an American businessman and philanthropist best known for co-founding United Parcel Service (UPS) and shaping it into a global package delivery giant.
 E289471 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: James E. Casey | Statement: [United Parcel Service, founder, James E. Casey]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James E. Casey
Context triple: [United Parcel Service, founder, James E. Casey]
  • A. Patrick E. Haggerty
    Patrick E. Haggerty was an American engineer and business executive who played a pivotal role in the early semiconductor industry and the growth of Texas Instruments into a major technology company.
  • B. Daniel P. Higgins
    Daniel P. Higgins was an architect associated with the design work on the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
  • C. Arthur E. Molloy
    Arthur E. Molloy was an individual significant enough in marine or exploratory history to have the undersea feature Molloy Deep named in his honor.
  • D. William J. Ruane
    William J. Ruane was an American value investor and fund manager best known for founding the Sequoia Fund and for his close professional association with Warren Buffett.
  • E. George H. Fallon
    George H. Fallon was a U.S. Congressman from Maryland known for his influential role in shaping national transportation policy, including major federal highway legislation.
  • 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: James E. Casey
Triple: [United Parcel Service, founder, James E. Casey]
Generated description
James E. Casey was an American businessman and philanthropist best known for co-founding United Parcel Service (UPS) and shaping it into a global package delivery giant.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James E. Casey
Target entity description: James E. Casey was an American businessman and philanthropist best known for co-founding United Parcel Service (UPS) and shaping it into a global package delivery giant.
  • A. Patrick E. Haggerty
    Patrick E. Haggerty was an American engineer and business executive who played a pivotal role in the early semiconductor industry and the growth of Texas Instruments into a major technology company.
  • B. Daniel P. Higgins
    Daniel P. Higgins was an architect associated with the design work on the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
  • C. Arthur E. Molloy
    Arthur E. Molloy was an individual significant enough in marine or exploratory history to have the undersea feature Molloy Deep named in his honor.
  • D. William J. Ruane
    William J. Ruane was an American value investor and fund manager best known for founding the Sequoia Fund and for his close professional association with Warren Buffett.
  • E. George H. Fallon
    George H. Fallon was a U.S. Congressman from Maryland known for his influential role in shaping national transportation policy, including major federal highway legislation.
  • 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_69a4934c753c81909b309027e48b9b3a completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4a5a5360c8190b16e1e4f4206d0aa completed March 1, 2026, 8:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69afaf01f74c8190938753276629fdf3 completed March 10, 2026, 5:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69afafbecd2c819091b503c928e3c7e7 completed March 10, 2026, 5:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69afb06e79a881908047a076cac68064 completed March 10, 2026, 5:47 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:37 p.m.