Triple

T9532382
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ken Olsen E229927 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object Kenneth Harry Olsen
Kenneth Harry Olsen was an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and longtime president of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), a pioneering company in the minicomputer industry.
E805854 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: Kenneth Harry Olsen | Statement: [Ken Olsen, fullName, Kenneth Harry Olsen]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kenneth Harry Olsen
Context triple: [Ken Olsen, fullName, Kenneth Harry Olsen]
  • A. Fernando J. Corbató
    Fernando J. Corbató was an American computer scientist best known for pioneering time-sharing operating systems and helping to lay the foundations of modern interactive computing.
  • B. John Simon Ritchie
    John Simon Ritchie, better known as Sid Vicious, was the bassist of the pioneering English punk rock band the Sex Pistols and an icon of the 1970s punk movement.
  • C. J. Presper Eckert
    J. Presper Eckert was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer best known as the co-inventor of ENIAC, one of the earliest general-purpose electronic digital computers.
  • D. Gary Kildall
    Gary Kildall was an American computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a pioneer of microcomputer operating systems and the founder of Digital Research.
  • E. Vinton Freedley
    Vinton Freedley was a prominent American theatrical producer best known for staging major Broadway musicals and comedies during the early to mid-20th century.
  • 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: Kenneth Harry Olsen
Triple: [Ken Olsen, fullName, Kenneth Harry Olsen]
Generated description
Kenneth Harry Olsen was an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and longtime president of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), a pioneering company in the minicomputer industry.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kenneth Harry Olsen
Target entity description: Kenneth Harry Olsen was an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and longtime president of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), a pioneering company in the minicomputer industry.
  • A. Fernando J. Corbató
    Fernando J. Corbató was an American computer scientist best known for pioneering time-sharing operating systems and helping to lay the foundations of modern interactive computing.
  • B. John Simon Ritchie
    John Simon Ritchie, better known as Sid Vicious, was the bassist of the pioneering English punk rock band the Sex Pistols and an icon of the 1970s punk movement.
  • C. J. Presper Eckert
    J. Presper Eckert was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer best known as the co-inventor of ENIAC, one of the earliest general-purpose electronic digital computers.
  • D. Gary Kildall
    Gary Kildall was an American computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a pioneer of microcomputer operating systems and the founder of Digital Research.
  • E. Vinton Freedley
    Vinton Freedley was a prominent American theatrical producer best known for staging major Broadway musicals and comedies during the early to mid-20th century.
  • 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_69ca8479934c81908006d0e6e970ae05 completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd98b5651881908241b040f123c6a8 completed April 1, 2026, 10:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d14c4033c08190a71535b63d86f4df completed April 4, 2026, 5:37 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d14df56ac881909fad7241797b1829 completed April 4, 2026, 5:44 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d14e7a8ca88190b38c93ff312e7333 completed April 4, 2026, 5:46 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8 p.m.