Triple

T8285385
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Canonical Ltd. E193775 entity
Predicate knownFor P22 FINISHED
Object MAAS
MAAS (Metal as a Service) is Canonical Ltd.'s open-source tool for provisioning, managing, and automating bare-metal servers at scale, often used in cloud and data center environments.
 E724144 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: MAAS | Statement: [Canonical Ltd., knownFor, MAAS]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: MAAS
Context triple: [Canonical Ltd., knownFor, MAAS]
  • A. Ma$e
    Ma$e is an American rapper and songwriter known for his late-1990s success with Bad Boy Records and his smooth, laid-back delivery on hits like "Feel So Good."
  • B. MAST
    MAST is a NASA-operated astronomical data archive that stores and provides access to observations from space-based telescopes such as Hubble, Kepler, and TESS.
  • C. Masinissa
    Masinissa was the first king of a unified Numidia, a powerful North African ally of Rome whose cavalry played a decisive role in defeating Carthage during the Second Punic War.
  • D. Masa
    Masa is a Central Chadic language spoken primarily in parts of Cameroon and Chad.
  • E. MAD
    MAD is the three-letter IATA airport code for Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, the main international airport serving Madrid, Spain.
  • 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: MAAS
Triple: [Canonical Ltd., knownFor, MAAS]
Generated description
MAAS (Metal as a Service) is Canonical Ltd.'s open-source tool for provisioning, managing, and automating bare-metal servers at scale, often used in cloud and data center environments.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: MAAS
Target entity description: MAAS (Metal as a Service) is Canonical Ltd.'s open-source tool for provisioning, managing, and automating bare-metal servers at scale, often used in cloud and data center environments.
  • A. Ma$e
    Ma$e is an American rapper and songwriter known for his late-1990s success with Bad Boy Records and his smooth, laid-back delivery on hits like "Feel So Good."
  • B. MAST
    MAST is a NASA-operated astronomical data archive that stores and provides access to observations from space-based telescopes such as Hubble, Kepler, and TESS.
  • C. Masinissa
    Masinissa was the first king of a unified Numidia, a powerful North African ally of Rome whose cavalry played a decisive role in defeating Carthage during the Second Punic War.
  • D. Masa
    Masa is a Central Chadic language spoken primarily in parts of Cameroon and Chad.
  • E. MAD
    MAD is the three-letter IATA airport code for Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport, the main international airport serving Madrid, Spain.
  • 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_69ca82e32db481908b72f3804fa71152 completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb7ad20ae481908179aba245c73fad completed March 31, 2026, 7:42 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cd687e64a08190a45a1cf5f5c32291 completed April 1, 2026, 6:48 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cd6d55196881909cf5ec925792e09f completed April 1, 2026, 7:09 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cd7e2bdae08190adc51e904e85695e completed April 1, 2026, 8:21 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:52 p.m.