Triple

T9903216
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jacobs Engineering Group E182337 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Joseph J. Jacobs
Joseph J. Jacobs was an American chemical engineer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist best known as the founder of the global technical professional services firm Jacobs Engineering Group.
E828042 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: Joseph J. Jacobs | Statement: [Jacobs Engineering Group, foundedBy, Joseph J. Jacobs]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joseph J. Jacobs
Context triple: [Jacobs Engineering Group, foundedBy, Joseph J. Jacobs]
  • A. Joseph Jacobs
    Joseph Jacobs was a folklorist and historian best known for collecting and popularizing English fairy tales in the late 19th century.
  • B. Charles Jacobs
    Charles Jacobs was an entrepreneur best known as a founder of Delaware North, a major global hospitality and food service company.
  • C. M.G. Siegler
    M.G. Siegler is a technology writer and venture capitalist known for his work at TechCrunch and his investing role at Google Ventures (GV).
  • D. M. M. Jacob
    M. M. Jacob was an Indian politician and administrator who served as a state governor and held several key public offices during his career.
  • E. Percy Uris
    Percy Uris was an American real estate developer and philanthropist known for his major contributions to educational institutions, particularly Columbia University.
  • 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: Joseph J. Jacobs
Triple: [Jacobs Engineering Group, foundedBy, Joseph J. Jacobs]
Generated description
Joseph J. Jacobs was an American chemical engineer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist best known as the founder of the global technical professional services firm Jacobs Engineering Group.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joseph J. Jacobs
Target entity description: Joseph J. Jacobs was an American chemical engineer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist best known as the founder of the global technical professional services firm Jacobs Engineering Group.
  • A. Joseph Jacobs
    Joseph Jacobs was a folklorist and historian best known for collecting and popularizing English fairy tales in the late 19th century.
  • B. Charles Jacobs
    Charles Jacobs was an entrepreneur best known as a founder of Delaware North, a major global hospitality and food service company.
  • C. M.G. Siegler
    M.G. Siegler is a technology writer and venture capitalist known for his work at TechCrunch and his investing role at Google Ventures (GV).
  • D. M. M. Jacob
    M. M. Jacob was an Indian politician and administrator who served as a state governor and held several key public offices during his career.
  • E. Percy Uris
    Percy Uris was an American real estate developer and philanthropist known for his major contributions to educational institutions, particularly Columbia University.
  • 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_69ca82876f8081909cf75df0f99bb13f completed March 30, 2026, 2:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdb4e391888190a3f5e5a1bf1cf9ff completed April 2, 2026, 12:14 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d1eb2778bc81909d7e09da718d9afa completed April 5, 2026, 4:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1ed4003fc8190ba7f96913abc55e0 completed April 5, 2026, 5:04 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d1ed99963881908dd14786a2e2e87f completed April 5, 2026, 5:05 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:40 p.m.