Triple

T11539742
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Kindergarten Is Too Late E273641 entity
Predicate hasAuthorBackground P938 FINISHED
Object Masaru Ibuka was co-founder of Sony Corporation
Masaru Ibuka was a pioneering Japanese electronics engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Sony Corporation and a key figure in the development of Japan’s postwar technology industry.
E931515 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: Masaru Ibuka was co-founder of Sony Corporation | Statement: [Kindergarten Is Too Late, hasAuthorBackground, Masaru Ibuka was co-founder of Sony Corporation]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Masaru Ibuka was co-founder of Sony Corporation
Context triple: [Kindergarten Is Too Late, hasAuthorBackground, Masaru Ibuka was co-founder of Sony Corporation]
  • A. Akio Morita
    Akio Morita was a Japanese businessman and co-founder of Sony who played a key role in transforming it into a global electronics and entertainment giant.
  • B. Fusajiro Yamauchi
    Fusajiro Yamauchi was a Japanese entrepreneur best known for establishing the company that would evolve into the global video game giant Nintendo.
  • C. Masayoshi Son
    Masayoshi Son is a Japanese billionaire entrepreneur and investor, best known as the founder and CEO of SoftBank Group and for his influential role in global technology investing.
  • D. Mikihiro Iwata
    Mikihiro Iwata is a Japanese anime industry figure best known as the founder of the animation studio A-1 Pictures.
  • E. Konosuke Matsushita
    Konosuke Matsushita was a Japanese industrialist and entrepreneur who founded Panasonic and built it into one of the world’s leading electronics companies.
  • 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: Masaru Ibuka was co-founder of Sony Corporation
Triple: [Kindergarten Is Too Late, hasAuthorBackground, Masaru Ibuka was co-founder of Sony Corporation]
Generated description
Masaru Ibuka was a pioneering Japanese electronics engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Sony Corporation and a key figure in the development of Japan’s postwar technology industry.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Masaru Ibuka was co-founder of Sony Corporation
Target entity description: Masaru Ibuka was a pioneering Japanese electronics engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Sony Corporation and a key figure in the development of Japan’s postwar technology industry.
  • A. Akio Morita
    Akio Morita was a Japanese businessman and co-founder of Sony who played a key role in transforming it into a global electronics and entertainment giant.
  • B. Fusajiro Yamauchi
    Fusajiro Yamauchi was a Japanese entrepreneur best known for establishing the company that would evolve into the global video game giant Nintendo.
  • C. Masayoshi Son
    Masayoshi Son is a Japanese billionaire entrepreneur and investor, best known as the founder and CEO of SoftBank Group and for his influential role in global technology investing.
  • D. Mikihiro Iwata
    Mikihiro Iwata is a Japanese anime industry figure best known as the founder of the animation studio A-1 Pictures.
  • E. Konosuke Matsushita
    Konosuke Matsushita was a Japanese industrialist and entrepreneur who founded Panasonic and built it into one of the world’s leading electronics companies.
  • 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_69d6aae3fbec8190a14632a5df2538b6 completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d886deed5c81908e5c38156064f882 completed April 10, 2026, 5:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e685ab77908190ac5d59cf2b8c96bf completed April 20, 2026, 7:59 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e68fd8210c8190a7b0bbd8a50ff6b1 completed April 20, 2026, 8:43 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e69f12cfcc8190a06e0922c9faa49e completed April 20, 2026, 9:48 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:37 p.m.