Triple

T7977098
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Stewart Butterfield E185473 entity
Predicate coFounded P104 FINISHED
Object Tiny Speck
Tiny Speck was a startup best known for developing the online game Glitch before pivoting to create the workplace communication platform that became Slack.
E703156 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: Tiny Speck | Statement: [Stewart Butterfield, coFounded, Tiny Speck]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tiny Speck
Context triple: [Stewart Butterfield, coFounded, Tiny Speck]
  • A. Tiny Soderball
    Tiny Soderball is a minor character in Willa Cather’s novel "My Ántonia," known as a practical, ambitious immigrant girl who rises from hired help to financial success during the Western frontier era.
  • B. A Speck of Dust
    A Speck of Dust is a stand-up comedy special by Sarah Silverman featuring her characteristic blend of sharp social commentary and personal storytelling.
  • C. Plankton’s Plan Z
    Plankton’s Plan Z is the elaborate villainous scheme in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie in which Plankton attempts to steal the Krabby Patty secret formula and take over Bikini Bottom.
  • D. The Little People
    "The Little People" is a 1962 episode of the science-fiction anthology series The Twilight Zone in which an arrogant astronaut declares himself a god over a civilization of tiny aliens, only to face a twist of cosmic irony.
  • E. Boontling
    Boontling is a highly localized and inventive American English argot developed in the late 19th century in Boonville, California, known for its unique vocabulary and obscure origins.
  • 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: Tiny Speck
Triple: [Stewart Butterfield, coFounded, Tiny Speck]
Generated description
Tiny Speck was a startup best known for developing the online game Glitch before pivoting to create the workplace communication platform that became Slack.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tiny Speck
Target entity description: Tiny Speck was a startup best known for developing the online game Glitch before pivoting to create the workplace communication platform that became Slack.
  • A. Tiny Soderball
    Tiny Soderball is a minor character in Willa Cather’s novel "My Ántonia," known as a practical, ambitious immigrant girl who rises from hired help to financial success during the Western frontier era.
  • B. A Speck of Dust
    A Speck of Dust is a stand-up comedy special by Sarah Silverman featuring her characteristic blend of sharp social commentary and personal storytelling.
  • C. Plankton’s Plan Z
    Plankton’s Plan Z is the elaborate villainous scheme in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie in which Plankton attempts to steal the Krabby Patty secret formula and take over Bikini Bottom.
  • D. The Little People
    "The Little People" is a 1962 episode of the science-fiction anthology series The Twilight Zone in which an arrogant astronaut declares himself a god over a civilization of tiny aliens, only to face a twist of cosmic irony.
  • E. Boontling
    Boontling is a highly localized and inventive American English argot developed in the late 19th century in Boonville, California, known for its unique vocabulary and obscure origins.
  • 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_69cbe0cc09a081909cb92cd4864ef50d completed March 31, 2026, 2:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cbe43d29f8819080f7d729c4f28c75 completed March 31, 2026, 3:11 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cc32e2e1c48190b86218bff9af99f5 completed March 31, 2026, 8:47 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:14 p.m.