Triple
T13413080
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | McLane Company |
E320138
|
entity |
| Predicate | foundedBy |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Robert McLane |
E320138
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Robert McLane | Statement: [McLane Company, foundedBy, Robert McLane]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert McLane Context triple: [McLane Company, foundedBy, Robert McLane]
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A.
Robert McLane
chosen
Robert McLane was an American businessman best known as the founder of McLane Company, a major supply chain services and wholesale distribution firm.
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B.
Stuart Merrill
Stuart Merrill was an American-born French Symbolist poet known for his musical, dreamlike verse and his involvement in late 19th-century Parisian literary circles.
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C.
Dick Van Patten
Dick Van Patten was an American actor best known for his role as the father on the television series "Eight Is Enough" and for numerous character roles in film and TV comedies.
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D.
Robert Horton
Robert Horton was an American actor best known for his starring role as scout Flint McCullough on the television Western series "Wagon Train."
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E.
Michael Leigh
Michael Leigh is a renowned English film and theatre director and screenwriter known for his improvisational working methods and critically acclaimed social-realist dramas.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69d806b943cc8190b6af624d385d7e12 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69dbaeb556948190af008c88e5bbf051 |
completed | April 12, 2026, 2:39 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f76b9ec6848190b8e986d849756050 |
completed | May 3, 2026, 3:37 p.m. |
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:35 p.m.