Triple

T1345690
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Philip W. Crosby E28565 entity
Predicate name P16 FINISHED
Object Philip W. Crosby
Philip W. Crosby was an influential American businessman and quality management expert best known for promoting the concept of “zero defects” and authoring the seminal book *Quality Is Free*.
E154578 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: Philip W. Crosby | Statement: [Philip W. Crosby, name, Philip W. Crosby]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Philip W. Crosby
Context triple: [Philip W. Crosby, name, Philip W. Crosby]
  • A. Phillip Crosby
    Phillip Crosby was an American actor and singer best known as one of Bing Crosby’s twin sons who appeared in films and television during the mid-20th century.
  • B. William S. Knudsen
    William S. Knudsen was a Danish-American automotive executive and industrialist who played a key role in organizing U.S. mass production for World War II.
  • C. Walter Powell
    Walter Powell was an American entrepreneur best known as the founder of Powell’s City of Books, one of the world’s largest independent bookstores in Portland, Oregon.
  • D. Kenneth C. Royall
    Kenneth C. Royall was an American lawyer, military officer, and politician who served as the last U.S. Secretary of War before becoming the first Secretary of the Army.
  • E. Emanuel R. Piore
    Emanuel R. Piore was a prominent physicist and research executive known for his influential leadership in industrial research and development, particularly at IBM.
  • 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: Philip W. Crosby
Triple: [Philip W. Crosby, name, Philip W. Crosby]
Generated description
Philip W. Crosby was an influential American businessman and quality management expert best known for promoting the concept of “zero defects” and authoring the seminal book *Quality Is Free*.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Philip W. Crosby
Target entity description: Philip W. Crosby was an influential American businessman and quality management expert best known for promoting the concept of “zero defects” and authoring the seminal book *Quality Is Free*.
  • A. Phillip Crosby
    Phillip Crosby was an American actor and singer best known as one of Bing Crosby’s twin sons who appeared in films and television during the mid-20th century.
  • B. William S. Knudsen
    William S. Knudsen was a Danish-American automotive executive and industrialist who played a key role in organizing U.S. mass production for World War II.
  • C. Walter Powell
    Walter Powell was an American entrepreneur best known as the founder of Powell’s City of Books, one of the world’s largest independent bookstores in Portland, Oregon.
  • D. Kenneth C. Royall
    Kenneth C. Royall was an American lawyer, military officer, and politician who served as the last U.S. Secretary of War before becoming the first Secretary of the Army.
  • E. Emanuel R. Piore
    Emanuel R. Piore was a prominent physicist and research executive known for his influential leadership in industrial research and development, particularly at IBM.
  • 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_69a49854eb3481908c7d56b2e449a290 completed March 1, 2026, 7:49 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c23e84188190b0395c57dd45b62a completed March 1, 2026, 10:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acc6351cbc81909e2ffc692ee92b54 completed March 8, 2026, 12:43 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acc6af0db88190a02936072783553e completed March 8, 2026, 12:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69acc7246f94819095b6a6868e06a7bf completed March 8, 2026, 12:47 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:56 p.m.