Triple

T1325247
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Maybelline New York E28311 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Thomas Lyle Williams
Thomas Lyle Williams was an American entrepreneur best known for creating the Maybelline cosmetics brand, which became one of the world’s leading makeup companies.
E176044 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: Thomas Lyle Williams | Statement: [Maybelline New York, foundedBy, Thomas Lyle Williams]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Lyle Williams
Context triple: [Maybelline New York, foundedBy, Thomas Lyle Williams]
  • A. Marcus Wright
    Marcus Wright is a central human-cyborg hybrid character in the film "Terminator Salvation," whose mysterious past and conflicted nature drive much of the movie’s plot.
  • B. John Joseph Woods
    John Joseph Woods was a New Zealand schoolteacher and musician best known for composing the music to the national anthem "God Defend New Zealand."
  • C. Lonnie E. Smith
    Lonnie E. Smith was an African American voter whose challenge to racially discriminatory primary elections led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Smith v. Allwright (1944), which struck down white-only primaries.
  • D. Jackson Murray
    Jackson Murray is one of actor and comedian Bill Murray’s sons, known primarily for his connection to the famed entertainer.
  • E. Charles Ray Wiggins
    Charles Ray Wiggins, better known as Raphael Saadiq, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and producer renowned for his influential work in contemporary R&B and neo-soul.
  • 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: Thomas Lyle Williams
Triple: [Maybelline New York, foundedBy, Thomas Lyle Williams]
Generated description
Thomas Lyle Williams was an American entrepreneur best known for creating the Maybelline cosmetics brand, which became one of the world’s leading makeup companies.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Lyle Williams
Target entity description: Thomas Lyle Williams was an American entrepreneur best known for creating the Maybelline cosmetics brand, which became one of the world’s leading makeup companies.
  • A. Marcus Wright
    Marcus Wright is a central human-cyborg hybrid character in the film "Terminator Salvation," whose mysterious past and conflicted nature drive much of the movie’s plot.
  • B. John Joseph Woods
    John Joseph Woods was a New Zealand schoolteacher and musician best known for composing the music to the national anthem "God Defend New Zealand."
  • C. Lonnie E. Smith
    Lonnie E. Smith was an African American voter whose challenge to racially discriminatory primary elections led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Smith v. Allwright (1944), which struck down white-only primaries.
  • D. Jackson Murray
    Jackson Murray is one of actor and comedian Bill Murray’s sons, known primarily for his connection to the famed entertainer.
  • E. Charles Ray Wiggins
    Charles Ray Wiggins, better known as Raphael Saadiq, is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and producer renowned for his influential work in contemporary R&B and neo-soul.
  • 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_69a498540a2481909e807a762280d3ba completed March 1, 2026, 7:49 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c19e81c0819092f85201ae34422a completed March 1, 2026, 10:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad3083a3748190b2404ef5edf90fd7 completed March 8, 2026, 8:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad31dcdef0819093276857b247ecea completed March 8, 2026, 8:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad32f287008190b66c9e626a0f39f1 completed March 8, 2026, 8:27 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:55 p.m.