Triple

T10415949
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject PPG Industries E245516 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object John Baptiste Ford
John Baptiste Ford was a 19th-century American industrialist and glass manufacturer best known for founding the company that became PPG Industries.
E862803 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: John Baptiste Ford | Statement: [PPG Industries, foundedBy, John Baptiste Ford]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Baptiste Ford
Context triple: [PPG Industries, foundedBy, John Baptiste Ford]
  • A. Steven Meigs Ford
    Steven Meigs Ford is the son of former U.S. President Gerald Ford and First Lady Betty Ford.
  • B. Thomas Ford
    Thomas Ford was an American politician who served as the eighth governor of Illinois from 1842 to 1846.
  • C. Charles E. Ford
    Charles E. Ford was a film producer active during Hollywood’s early Western era, known for his work on genre pictures such as "Under Western Stars."
  • D. Edward Charles Ford
    Edward Charles Ford, better known as Whitey Ford, was a Hall of Fame left-handed pitcher who starred for the New York Yankees in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • E. Fred Ford
    Fred Ford is a video game designer and programmer best known as the co-creator of the Star Control series and co-founder of the game development studio Toys for Bob.
  • 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: John Baptiste Ford
Triple: [PPG Industries, foundedBy, John Baptiste Ford]
Generated description
John Baptiste Ford was a 19th-century American industrialist and glass manufacturer best known for founding the company that became PPG Industries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Baptiste Ford
Target entity description: John Baptiste Ford was a 19th-century American industrialist and glass manufacturer best known for founding the company that became PPG Industries.
  • A. Steven Meigs Ford
    Steven Meigs Ford is the son of former U.S. President Gerald Ford and First Lady Betty Ford.
  • B. Thomas Ford
    Thomas Ford was an American politician who served as the eighth governor of Illinois from 1842 to 1846.
  • C. Charles E. Ford
    Charles E. Ford was a film producer active during Hollywood’s early Western era, known for his work on genre pictures such as "Under Western Stars."
  • D. Edward Charles Ford
    Edward Charles Ford, better known as Whitey Ford, was a Hall of Fame left-handed pitcher who starred for the New York Yankees in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • E. Fred Ford
    Fred Ford is a video game designer and programmer best known as the co-creator of the Star Control series and co-founder of the game development studio Toys for Bob.
  • 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_69d381be340c8190b05998703d42d224 completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d4ea108fec8190819423630888fa2b completed April 7, 2026, 11:27 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d87e9b86648190b83eb5261c9a7b97 completed April 10, 2026, 4:37 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d8837e70508190b03e8983b2617eac completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d889cc40648190a1d80b955e676ea5 completed April 10, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:10 p.m.