Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Target Corporation E171282 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object George Dayton
George Dayton was an American businessman and philanthropist best known as the founder of the retail company that became Target Corporation.
E664353 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: George Dayton | Statement: [Target Corporation, foundedBy, George Dayton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Dayton
Context triple: [Target Corporation, foundedBy, George Dayton]
  • A. William Lundigan
    William Lundigan was an American film and television actor active from the 1930s through the 1960s, known for roles in dramas, war films, and early TV series.
  • B. James Ritz
    James Ritz is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the 1977 action-comedy film "Grand Theft Auto," one of Ron Howard’s early directing projects.
  • C. Wayne Huizenga
    Wayne Huizenga was an American businessman and entrepreneur best known for founding Waste Management, Blockbuster Video, and AutoNation, and for owning multiple professional sports franchises in South Florida.
  • D. F. Ross Johnson
    F. Ross Johnson was a Canadian-American businessman best known as the high-profile CEO who led the leveraged buyout battle for RJR Nabisco in the late 1980s.
  • E. Dave Thomas
    Dave Thomas is a prominent software developer and author best known as a co-author of "The Pragmatic Programmer" and an original signatory of the Agile Manifesto.
  • 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: George Dayton
Triple: [Target Corporation, foundedBy, George Dayton]
Generated description
George Dayton was an American businessman and philanthropist best known as the founder of the retail company that became Target Corporation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Dayton
Target entity description: George Dayton was an American businessman and philanthropist best known as the founder of the retail company that became Target Corporation.
  • A. William Lundigan
    William Lundigan was an American film and television actor active from the 1930s through the 1960s, known for roles in dramas, war films, and early TV series.
  • B. James Ritz
    James Ritz is a screenwriter best known for co-writing the 1977 action-comedy film "Grand Theft Auto," one of Ron Howard’s early directing projects.
  • C. Wayne Huizenga
    Wayne Huizenga was an American businessman and entrepreneur best known for founding Waste Management, Blockbuster Video, and AutoNation, and for owning multiple professional sports franchises in South Florida.
  • D. F. Ross Johnson
    F. Ross Johnson was a Canadian-American businessman best known as the high-profile CEO who led the leveraged buyout battle for RJR Nabisco in the late 1980s.
  • E. Dave Thomas
    Dave Thomas is a prominent software developer and author best known as a co-author of "The Pragmatic Programmer" and an original signatory of the Agile Manifesto.
  • 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_69c68a625d048190af70eb8b63bec5a0 completed March 27, 2026, 1:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f2ed29ec8190804564185fe20797 completed March 27, 2026, 9:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c81effc488819086336eea92604fa8 completed March 28, 2026, 6:33 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c81fe025d081909f2a5c4515c60f64 completed March 28, 2026, 6:37 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c824010104819081977e89d79ebb44 completed March 28, 2026, 6:54 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:11 p.m.