Triple

T8021471
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center E186749 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object David Ferrucci
David Ferrucci is an American computer scientist best known for leading the team that developed IBM's Watson question-answering system that won on the quiz show Jeopardy!.
 E707715 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: David Ferrucci | Statement: [IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, employer, David Ferrucci]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: David Ferrucci
Context triple: [IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, employer, David Ferrucci]
  • A. Andrew B. Moore
    Andrew B. Moore was an American politician who served as governor of Alabama in the years leading up to and during the early part of the Civil War.
  • B. Wolfram Burgard
    Wolfram Burgard is a German computer scientist and roboticist known for his influential work in probabilistic robotics, autonomous navigation, and artificial intelligence.
  • C. Christopher J. C. Burges
    Christopher J. C. Burges is a computer scientist and machine learning researcher known for his contributions to pattern recognition and support vector machines.
  • D. Dario Amodei
    Dario Amodei is an AI researcher and entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic and former OpenAI research leader known for his work on large language models and AI safety.
  • E. John Ritchie
    John Ritchie was the father of John Simon Ritchie, better known as Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols.
  • 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: David Ferrucci
Triple: [IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, employer, David Ferrucci]
Generated description
David Ferrucci is an American computer scientist best known for leading the team that developed IBM's Watson question-answering system that won on the quiz show Jeopardy!.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: David Ferrucci
Target entity description: David Ferrucci is an American computer scientist best known for leading the team that developed IBM's Watson question-answering system that won on the quiz show Jeopardy!.
  • A. Andrew B. Moore
    Andrew B. Moore was an American politician who served as governor of Alabama in the years leading up to and during the early part of the Civil War.
  • B. Wolfram Burgard
    Wolfram Burgard is a German computer scientist and roboticist known for his influential work in probabilistic robotics, autonomous navigation, and artificial intelligence.
  • C. Christopher J. C. Burges
    Christopher J. C. Burges is a computer scientist and machine learning researcher known for his contributions to pattern recognition and support vector machines.
  • D. Dario Amodei
    Dario Amodei is an AI researcher and entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic and former OpenAI research leader known for his work on large language models and AI safety.
  • E. John Ritchie
    John Ritchie was the father of John Simon Ritchie, better known as Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols.
  • 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_69ca82ac7fc081909b1398cf025423af completed March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb3e8d90488190b57d1e748e272061 completed March 31, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cc56cdce588190abba45c24dc7a5e7 completed March 31, 2026, 11:20 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cc58a9e94081908980e2c60be38642 completed March 31, 2026, 11:28 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cc5cbaefb481909eb325f0d27675c0 completed March 31, 2026, 11:46 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:20 p.m.