Triple

T9029151
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject WorldCom, Inc. E216124 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object William Rector
William Rector is an American businessman best known as a founder of the telecommunications company WorldCom, Inc.
E790158 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: William Rector | Statement: [WorldCom, Inc., foundedBy, William Rector]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Rector
Context triple: [WorldCom, Inc., foundedBy, William Rector]
  • A. William Wharton
    William Wharton is a sadistic, unhinged death row inmate and key antagonist in Stephen King’s novel "The Green Mile."
  • B. Philip Oakes
    Philip Oakes was a British journalist, film critic, and screenwriter active in the mid-20th century.
  • C. Philip Woodruff
    Philip Woodruff was the pen name of British civil servant Philip Mason, best known for his influential writings on the British Raj and the Indian Civil Service.
  • D. Charles Fergusson
    Charles Fergusson was a senior British Army officer and general who played a prominent command role on the Western Front during World War I.
  • E. Philip Holbrook
    Philip Holbrook is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Holbrook.
  • 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: William Rector
Triple: [WorldCom, Inc., foundedBy, William Rector]
Generated description
William Rector is an American businessman best known as a founder of the telecommunications company WorldCom, Inc.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Rector
Target entity description: William Rector is an American businessman best known as a founder of the telecommunications company WorldCom, Inc.
  • A. William Wharton
    William Wharton is a sadistic, unhinged death row inmate and key antagonist in Stephen King’s novel "The Green Mile."
  • B. Philip Oakes
    Philip Oakes was a British journalist, film critic, and screenwriter active in the mid-20th century.
  • C. Philip Woodruff
    Philip Woodruff was the pen name of British civil servant Philip Mason, best known for his influential writings on the British Raj and the Indian Civil Service.
  • D. Charles Fergusson
    Charles Fergusson was a senior British Army officer and general who played a prominent command role on the Western Front during World War I.
  • E. Philip Holbrook
    Philip Holbrook is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Holbrook.
  • 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_69ca83a5fa88819088144801b4dd7245 completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc6a9bcb508190b58751f1772407d4 completed April 1, 2026, 12:45 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d0b17686608190bc144ff3e79074f7 completed April 4, 2026, 6:36 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d0b2b9fbf4819083e594d676323c65 completed April 4, 2026, 6:42 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d0b343a040819098620e2e3c451b39 completed April 4, 2026, 6:44 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:08 p.m.