Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Stewart Butterfield E185473 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Daniel Stewart Butterfield
Daniel Stewart Butterfield is a Canadian entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of Slack and the co-founder of the photo-sharing site Flickr.
E812528 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: Daniel Stewart Butterfield | Statement: [Stewart Butterfield, birthName, Daniel Stewart Butterfield]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Daniel Stewart Butterfield
Context triple: [Stewart Butterfield, birthName, Daniel Stewart Butterfield]
  • A. George T. Brown
    George T. Brown was an American businessman best known as a founder of the Brown & Williamson tobacco company, which became one of the major U.S. cigarette manufacturers.
  • B. Edward F. Storey
    Edward F. Storey was a 19th-century Nevada figure, likely a pioneer or local leader, for whom Storey County was named.
  • C. John A. Pearson
    John A. Pearson was a prominent early 20th-century Canadian architect known for designing major public and institutional buildings.
  • D. John L. Burton
    John L. Burton is an American Democratic politician from California who served for decades in both the U.S. Congress and the California State Legislature, including as chair of the California Democratic Party.
  • E. William S. Benson
    William S. Benson was a U.S. Navy admiral who served as the first Chief of Naval Operations during World War I.
  • 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: Daniel Stewart Butterfield
Triple: [Stewart Butterfield, birthName, Daniel Stewart Butterfield]
Generated description
Daniel Stewart Butterfield is a Canadian entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of Slack and the co-founder of the photo-sharing site Flickr.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Daniel Stewart Butterfield
Target entity description: Daniel Stewart Butterfield is a Canadian entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and CEO of Slack and the co-founder of the photo-sharing site Flickr.
  • A. George T. Brown
    George T. Brown was an American businessman best known as a founder of the Brown & Williamson tobacco company, which became one of the major U.S. cigarette manufacturers.
  • B. Edward F. Storey
    Edward F. Storey was a 19th-century Nevada figure, likely a pioneer or local leader, for whom Storey County was named.
  • C. John A. Pearson
    John A. Pearson was a prominent early 20th-century Canadian architect known for designing major public and institutional buildings.
  • D. John L. Burton
    John L. Burton is an American Democratic politician from California who served for decades in both the U.S. Congress and the California State Legislature, including as chair of the California Democratic Party.
  • E. William S. Benson
    William S. Benson was a U.S. Navy admiral who served as the first Chief of Naval Operations during World War I.
  • 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_69ca829851908190b4e03829353ee7c3 completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb3bf716508190b4245bd5d89ae8c4 completed March 31, 2026, 3:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d181f4123c8190a15ee03b3156c6fd completed April 4, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d182ef83e881908a579b6a696ebdc3 completed April 4, 2026, 9:30 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1836f1be48190a172834ce9eaafe3 completed April 4, 2026, 9:32 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:14 p.m.