Triple

T11072685
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bowerman E261783 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object W. G. Bowerman
W. G. Bowerman was an American track and field coach and co-founder of Nike, Inc., renowned for revolutionizing running shoe design and training methods.
E903675 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: W. G. Bowerman | Statement: [Bowerman, hasNotableBearer, W. G. Bowerman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: W. G. Bowerman
Context triple: [Bowerman, hasNotableBearer, W. G. Bowerman]
  • A. Thomas Peters
    Thomas Peters was a prominent Black Loyalist leader and former enslaved man who championed the rights of Black settlers in Nova Scotia and helped organize their migration to Sierra Leone in the late 18th century.
  • B. Willie Unsoeld
    Willie Unsoeld was an influential American mountaineer and educator, best known as a pioneering Himalayan climber and member of the first American team to summit Mount Everest.
  • C. Bert Hanson
    Bert Hanson is a wealthy, manipulative businessman and one of the main antagonists in the comedy film "Horrible Bosses 2."
  • D. John Speakman
    John Speakman was a key founding figure associated with the establishment of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, one of the oldest natural history institutions in the United States.
  • E. Leland Hayward
    Leland Hayward was a prominent American theatrical and film producer and talent agent known for backing major Broadway hits and influential Hollywood projects in the 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: W. G. Bowerman
Triple: [Bowerman, hasNotableBearer, W. G. Bowerman]
Generated description
W. G. Bowerman was an American track and field coach and co-founder of Nike, Inc., renowned for revolutionizing running shoe design and training methods.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: W. G. Bowerman
Target entity description: W. G. Bowerman was an American track and field coach and co-founder of Nike, Inc., renowned for revolutionizing running shoe design and training methods.
  • A. Thomas Peters
    Thomas Peters was a prominent Black Loyalist leader and former enslaved man who championed the rights of Black settlers in Nova Scotia and helped organize their migration to Sierra Leone in the late 18th century.
  • B. Willie Unsoeld
    Willie Unsoeld was an influential American mountaineer and educator, best known as a pioneering Himalayan climber and member of the first American team to summit Mount Everest.
  • C. Bert Hanson
    Bert Hanson is a wealthy, manipulative businessman and one of the main antagonists in the comedy film "Horrible Bosses 2."
  • D. John Speakman
    John Speakman was a key founding figure associated with the establishment of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, one of the oldest natural history institutions in the United States.
  • E. Leland Hayward
    Leland Hayward was a prominent American theatrical and film producer and talent agent known for backing major Broadway hits and influential Hollywood projects in the 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_69d6aa9983c08190b0ef61603b69feac completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d7994cd5c481909fc7de795fdafddc completed April 9, 2026, 12:19 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e3e76a49fc8190945f4770bf808b43 completed April 18, 2026, 8:19 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e3f2c889dc81909a04c1db0509e3d9 completed April 18, 2026, 9:08 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e3f4746dbc8190a0e28202ad5e6b4f completed April 18, 2026, 9:15 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:26 p.m.