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]
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A.
Steven Meigs Ford
Steven Meigs Ford is the son of former U.S. President Gerald Ford and First Lady Betty Ford.
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B.
Thomas Ford
Thomas Ford was an American politician who served as the eighth governor of Illinois from 1842 to 1846.
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.