Triple

T9450799
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Melinda Ann French E227883 entity
Predicate founded P104 FINISHED
Object Pivotal Ventures
Pivotal Ventures is an investment and incubation company focused on advancing social progress and gender equality, founded by philanthropist Melinda French Gates.
 E801236 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: Pivotal Ventures | Statement: [Melinda Ann French, founded, Pivotal Ventures]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Pivotal Ventures
Context triple: [Melinda Ann French, founded, Pivotal Ventures]
  • A. Pivotal Software
    Pivotal Software is a cloud-native platform and services company known for its Pivotal Cloud Foundry product and agile software development tools, originally formed as a spin-off from EMC and VMware.
  • B. Kapor Capital
    Kapor Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing in technology-driven startups that aim to close gaps in access, opportunity, and outcomes for underserved communities.
  • C. Revolution Ventures
    Revolution Ventures is a venture capital firm founded by Steve Case that invests in early-stage, high-growth companies, often outside traditional tech hubs.
  • D. Thiel Capital
    Thiel Capital is an investment firm and family office managing the personal capital and strategic ventures of billionaire entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel.
  • E. Khosla Ventures
    Khosla Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm known for investing in early-stage, high-risk technology and clean energy startups.
  • 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: Pivotal Ventures
Triple: [Melinda Ann French, founded, Pivotal Ventures]
Generated description
Pivotal Ventures is an investment and incubation company focused on advancing social progress and gender equality, founded by philanthropist Melinda French Gates.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Pivotal Ventures
Target entity description: Pivotal Ventures is an investment and incubation company focused on advancing social progress and gender equality, founded by philanthropist Melinda French Gates.
  • A. Pivotal Software
    Pivotal Software is a cloud-native platform and services company known for its Pivotal Cloud Foundry product and agile software development tools, originally formed as a spin-off from EMC and VMware.
  • B. Kapor Capital
    Kapor Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing in technology-driven startups that aim to close gaps in access, opportunity, and outcomes for underserved communities.
  • C. Revolution Ventures
    Revolution Ventures is a venture capital firm founded by Steve Case that invests in early-stage, high-growth companies, often outside traditional tech hubs.
  • D. Thiel Capital
    Thiel Capital is an investment firm and family office managing the personal capital and strategic ventures of billionaire entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel.
  • E. Khosla Ventures
    Khosla Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm known for investing in early-stage, high-risk technology and clean energy startups.
  • 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_69ca8439f8bc8190997f2ef40c9f0bc2 completed March 30, 2026, 2:10 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd7f6649a48190b6844daa6202efe5 completed April 1, 2026, 8:26 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d12272a2dc8190892a22db0799b6a4 completed April 4, 2026, 2:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d12395841c8190857de8a50ab6345c completed April 4, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1275bcbd88190a5742a9cf802425a completed April 4, 2026, 2:59 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:51 p.m.