Triple

T11189489
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sierra Entertainment E264758 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Roberta Williams
Roberta Williams is a pioneering American video game designer best known for co-founding Sierra Entertainment and creating influential graphic adventure games such as the King's Quest series.
E910681 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: Roberta Williams | Statement: [Sierra Entertainment, foundedBy, Roberta Williams]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Roberta Williams
Context triple: [Sierra Entertainment, foundedBy, Roberta Williams]
  • A. Jordan Mechner
    Jordan Mechner is an American video game designer, programmer, and writer best known as the creator of the Prince of Persia series.
  • B. Steve Meretzky
    Steve Meretzky is an American game designer best known for his influential and humorous text adventures at Infocom, including collaborations with Douglas Adams.
  • C. Dave Lebling
    Dave Lebling is an American game designer and programmer best known as one of the co-creators of the pioneering text adventure game Zork and a founding member of the interactive fiction company Infocom.
  • D. Mary Flanagan
    Mary Flanagan is an American artist, scholar, and game designer known for her pioneering work in critical play, feminist media studies, and the exploration of social issues through interactive art and games.
  • E. Tim Schafer
    Tim Schafer is an American video game designer and writer best known for his work on classic adventure games at LucasArts and for founding the studio Double Fine Productions.
  • 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: Roberta Williams
Triple: [Sierra Entertainment, foundedBy, Roberta Williams]
Generated description
Roberta Williams is a pioneering American video game designer best known for co-founding Sierra Entertainment and creating influential graphic adventure games such as the King's Quest series.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Roberta Williams
Target entity description: Roberta Williams is a pioneering American video game designer best known for co-founding Sierra Entertainment and creating influential graphic adventure games such as the King's Quest series.
  • A. Jordan Mechner
    Jordan Mechner is an American video game designer, programmer, and writer best known as the creator of the Prince of Persia series.
  • B. Steve Meretzky
    Steve Meretzky is an American game designer best known for his influential and humorous text adventures at Infocom, including collaborations with Douglas Adams.
  • C. Dave Lebling
    Dave Lebling is an American game designer and programmer best known as one of the co-creators of the pioneering text adventure game Zork and a founding member of the interactive fiction company Infocom.
  • D. Mary Flanagan
    Mary Flanagan is an American artist, scholar, and game designer known for her pioneering work in critical play, feminist media studies, and the exploration of social issues through interactive art and games.
  • E. Tim Schafer
    Tim Schafer is an American video game designer and writer best known for his work on classic adventure games at LucasArts and for founding the studio Double Fine Productions.
  • 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_69d6aa9eb9248190b20211772621b4bc completed April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d7e8af18e4819091811bca657c9cb0 completed April 9, 2026, 5:58 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e483df3c74819090fc6ef26f785539 completed April 19, 2026, 7:27 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e48788be688190a109ccb8281d3dc9 completed April 19, 2026, 7:43 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e4890c12388190838d350207492c9e completed April 19, 2026, 7:49 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:29 p.m.