Triple

T12133446
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Marcus Corporation E288990 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Ben Marcus
Ben Marcus was an American entrepreneur best known as the founder of The Marcus Corporation, a major Midwest-based company in the lodging and entertainment industries.
E970504 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: Ben Marcus | Statement: [Marcus Corporation, foundedBy, Ben Marcus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ben Marcus
Context triple: [Marcus Corporation, foundedBy, Ben Marcus]
  • A. Ben Marcus
    Ben Marcus is an American author known for his experimental, linguistically inventive fiction and influential short story collections and novels.
  • B. Andrew Marcus
    Andrew Marcus is a film editor best known for his work on major feature films, including Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation of "Much Ado About Nothing."
  • C. Andrew Marcus
    Andrew Marcus is a literary editor known for preparing an edition of E. M. Forster’s novel "Howards End."
  • D. Andrew Marcus
    Andrew Marcus is a film and television producer best known for his work as an executive producer on the political documentary "2016: Obama's America" and other conservative-leaning media projects.
  • E. Stephen Ross
    Stephen Ross is an American billionaire real estate developer and sports investor best known as the owner of the Miami Dolphins and a major figure in international soccer and football events.
  • 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: Ben Marcus
Triple: [Marcus Corporation, foundedBy, Ben Marcus]
Generated description
Ben Marcus was an American entrepreneur best known as the founder of The Marcus Corporation, a major Midwest-based company in the lodging and entertainment industries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ben Marcus
Target entity description: Ben Marcus was an American entrepreneur best known as the founder of The Marcus Corporation, a major Midwest-based company in the lodging and entertainment industries.
  • A. Ben Marcus
    Ben Marcus is an American author known for his experimental, linguistically inventive fiction and influential short story collections and novels.
  • B. Andrew Marcus
    Andrew Marcus is a literary editor known for preparing an edition of E. M. Forster’s novel "Howards End."
  • C. Andrew Marcus
    Andrew Marcus is a film editor best known for his work on major feature films, including Kenneth Branagh’s adaptation of "Much Ado About Nothing."
  • D. Andrew Marcus
    Andrew Marcus is a film and television producer best known for his work as an executive producer on the political documentary "2016: Obama's America" and other conservative-leaning media projects.
  • E. Stephen Ross
    Stephen Ross is an American billionaire real estate developer and sports investor best known as the owner of the Miami Dolphins and a major figure in international soccer and football events.
  • 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_69d6ab4b5e4c81909950b17151eb0951 completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d9158c59e0819094d4522a107482b2 completed April 10, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f60a79dd148190835c2679fb2df3b1 completed May 2, 2026, 2:30 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f60dbe4f788190a3b4be4b31cfbffa completed May 2, 2026, 2:44 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f60ee037bc8190be486e30e03031a7 completed May 2, 2026, 2:49 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:49 p.m.