Triple

T986355
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject SGI E21289 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Kurt Akeley
Kurt Akeley is a pioneering computer graphics engineer and co-founder of Silicon Graphics (SGI), known for his influential work on high-performance 3D graphics hardware and APIs.
E116585 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: Kurt Akeley | Statement: [SGI, foundedBy, Kurt Akeley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kurt Akeley
Context triple: [SGI, foundedBy, Kurt Akeley]
  • A. Hugo van Lawick
    Hugo van Lawick was a Dutch wildlife filmmaker and photographer renowned for documenting African wildlife and extensively filming Jane Goodall’s chimpanzee research in Gombe.
  • B. John Galen Howard
    John Galen Howard was an influential American architect best known for shaping the early 20th-century architectural landscape of the University of California, Berkeley campus.
  • C. Clinton Hart Merriam
    Clinton Hart Merriam was an American zoologist and ethnographer known for his pioneering work in North American mammalogy and biogeography.
  • D. Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter
    Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter was an American philanthropist and arts patron whose support and legacy are commemorated by the naming of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts.
  • E. Ernest Brown
    Ernest Brown was a British Liberal National politician who served as Minister of Labour in Neville Chamberlain’s government before later becoming Secretary of State for Scotland.
  • 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: Kurt Akeley
Triple: [SGI, foundedBy, Kurt Akeley]
Generated description
Kurt Akeley is a pioneering computer graphics engineer and co-founder of Silicon Graphics (SGI), known for his influential work on high-performance 3D graphics hardware and APIs.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kurt Akeley
Target entity description: Kurt Akeley is a pioneering computer graphics engineer and co-founder of Silicon Graphics (SGI), known for his influential work on high-performance 3D graphics hardware and APIs.
  • A. Hugo van Lawick
    Hugo van Lawick was a Dutch wildlife filmmaker and photographer renowned for documenting African wildlife and extensively filming Jane Goodall’s chimpanzee research in Gombe.
  • B. John Galen Howard
    John Galen Howard was an influential American architect best known for shaping the early 20th-century architectural landscape of the University of California, Berkeley campus.
  • C. Clinton Hart Merriam
    Clinton Hart Merriam was an American zoologist and ethnographer known for his pioneering work in North American mammalogy and biogeography.
  • D. Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter
    Alfred St. Vrain Carpenter was an American philanthropist and arts patron whose support and legacy are commemorated by the naming of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts.
  • E. Ernest Brown
    Ernest Brown was a British Liberal National politician who served as Minister of Labour in Neville Chamberlain’s government before later becoming Secretary of State for Scotland.
  • 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_69a493c383dc8190a03257f22d4b4183 completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b496b7308190a9c201244330b784 completed March 1, 2026, 9:50 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac1ce5c0d48190ab023cec30b2c25a completed March 7, 2026, 12:41 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac20a7f47c8190b765cde3c6fbe1f8 completed March 7, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac21640a8c8190820a1b34a7d5c895 completed March 7, 2026, 1 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:41 p.m.