Triple

T8570744
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject MITS Altair 8800 E202918 entity
Predicate developer P73 FINISHED
Object Ed Roberts
Ed Roberts was an American engineer and entrepreneur best known for creating the MITS Altair 8800, a pioneering early personal computer that helped launch the microcomputer revolution.
E744099 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: Ed Roberts | Statement: [MITS Altair 8800, developer, Ed Roberts]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ed Roberts
Context triple: [MITS Altair 8800, developer, Ed Roberts]
  • A. Orvil E. Dryfoos
    Orvil E. Dryfoos was an American newspaper executive who briefly served as publisher of The New York Times in the early 1960s.
  • B. Clark Kerr
    Clark Kerr was an influential American academic and administrator who served as president of the University of California system during the turbulent 1960s, becoming a central figure in debates over student activism and free speech.
  • C. William G. Bowen
    William G. Bowen was an influential American academic and university president, best known for leading Princeton University and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and for his work on higher education policy and access.
  • D. William F. Knowland
    William F. Knowland was a prominent mid-20th-century Republican U.S. Senator from California who served as Senate Majority Leader and was influential in shaping Cold War-era foreign policy.
  • E. Russell G. Cory
    Russell G. Cory was an architect known for his work on New York City's landmark Starrett-Lehigh Building, a prominent example of early 20th-century industrial modernism.
  • 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: Ed Roberts
Triple: [MITS Altair 8800, developer, Ed Roberts]
Generated description
Ed Roberts was an American engineer and entrepreneur best known for creating the MITS Altair 8800, a pioneering early personal computer that helped launch the microcomputer revolution.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ed Roberts
Target entity description: Ed Roberts was an American engineer and entrepreneur best known for creating the MITS Altair 8800, a pioneering early personal computer that helped launch the microcomputer revolution.
  • A. Orvil E. Dryfoos
    Orvil E. Dryfoos was an American newspaper executive who briefly served as publisher of The New York Times in the early 1960s.
  • B. Clark Kerr
    Clark Kerr was an influential American academic and administrator who served as president of the University of California system during the turbulent 1960s, becoming a central figure in debates over student activism and free speech.
  • C. William G. Bowen
    William G. Bowen was an influential American academic and university president, best known for leading Princeton University and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and for his work on higher education policy and access.
  • D. William F. Knowland
    William F. Knowland was a prominent mid-20th-century Republican U.S. Senator from California who served as Senate Majority Leader and was influential in shaping Cold War-era foreign policy.
  • E. Russell G. Cory
    Russell G. Cory was an architect known for his work on New York City's landmark Starrett-Lehigh Building, a prominent example of early 20th-century industrial modernism.
  • 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_69ca8327b0a881908606ff860713964d completed March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cbea4223888190a56d9026ae0b9ec0 completed March 31, 2026, 3:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ce8983bd3c819094457b5160bc928d completed April 2, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ce8ac1dba48190bbad47a762130aab completed April 2, 2026, 3:26 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ce8eae70008190b2c7bbe4ce8d4c0a completed April 2, 2026, 3:43 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:21 p.m.