Triple

T7675774
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject McDonald’s E173856 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Richard McDonald
Richard McDonald was an American entrepreneur who, with his brother Maurice, created the original McDonald’s restaurant concept that evolved into the global fast-food chain.
E681569 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: Richard McDonald | Statement: [McDonald’s, foundedBy, Richard McDonald]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard McDonald
Context triple: [McDonald’s, foundedBy, Richard McDonald]
  • 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. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Ray Kroc
    Ray Kroc was an American businessman best known for turning McDonald's into a global fast-food empire through aggressive franchising and standardization.
  • E. Patrick McDonald
    Patrick McDonald is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as sports, politics, and the arts, rather than referring to a single widely recognized public figure.
  • 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: Richard McDonald
Triple: [McDonald’s, foundedBy, Richard McDonald]
Generated description
Richard McDonald was an American entrepreneur who, with his brother Maurice, created the original McDonald’s restaurant concept that evolved into the global fast-food chain.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard McDonald
Target entity description: Richard McDonald was an American entrepreneur who, with his brother Maurice, created the original McDonald’s restaurant concept that evolved into the global fast-food chain.
  • 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. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Ray Kroc
    Ray Kroc was an American businessman best known for turning McDonald's into a global fast-food empire through aggressive franchising and standardization.
  • E. Patrick McDonald
    Patrick McDonald is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as sports, politics, and the arts, rather than referring to a single widely recognized public figure.
  • 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_69c6995703e0819081de77361b602e78 completed March 27, 2026, 2:51 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c701e333f08190a9ee87080c6d0118 completed March 27, 2026, 10:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c8a23ba62881908fcdcf2ffcf6d41d completed March 29, 2026, 3:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c8a49262ec81908f3b45031994d128 completed March 29, 2026, 4:03 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c8a50df2a88190b5f7db0afea96fc3 completed March 29, 2026, 4:05 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 4:01 p.m.