Triple

T13778035
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Brian Goldner E331060 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object Bandai America
Bandai America is the North American subsidiary of the Japanese toy and entertainment company Bandai, responsible for marketing and distributing popular toy lines and licensed products in the U.S. and surrounding regions.
E1062564 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: Bandai America | Statement: [Brian Goldner, employer, Bandai America]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bandai America
Context triple: [Brian Goldner, employer, Bandai America]
  • A. Bandai Entertainment
    Bandai Entertainment was an American anime licensing and distribution company known for bringing numerous popular Japanese animated series and films to North American audiences.
  • B. Takara Tomy
    Takara Tomy is a Japanese toy and entertainment company best known internationally for creating and producing the Transformers franchise and other popular toy lines.
  • C. Namco Bandai Games
    Namco Bandai Games is a major Japanese video game publisher and developer known for franchises such as Tekken, Pac-Man, and the Tales series.
  • D. Hasbro
    Hasbro is a major American toy and entertainment company known for creating and owning popular brands such as Transformers, My Little Pony, and Monopoly.
  • E. Toyopa Group, LLC
    Toyopa Group, LLC is the original corporate name under which the company now known as Snap Inc., the parent of Snapchat, was first established.
  • 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: Bandai America
Triple: [Brian Goldner, employer, Bandai America]
Generated description
Bandai America is the North American subsidiary of the Japanese toy and entertainment company Bandai, responsible for marketing and distributing popular toy lines and licensed products in the U.S. and surrounding regions.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bandai America
Target entity description: Bandai America is the North American subsidiary of the Japanese toy and entertainment company Bandai, responsible for marketing and distributing popular toy lines and licensed products in the U.S. and surrounding regions.
  • A. Bandai Entertainment
    Bandai Entertainment was an American anime licensing and distribution company known for bringing numerous popular Japanese animated series and films to North American audiences.
  • B. Takara Tomy
    Takara Tomy is a Japanese toy and entertainment company best known internationally for creating and producing the Transformers franchise and other popular toy lines.
  • C. Namco Bandai Games
    Namco Bandai Games is a major Japanese video game publisher and developer known for franchises such as Tekken, Pac-Man, and the Tales series.
  • D. Hasbro
    Hasbro is a major American toy and entertainment company known for creating and owning popular brands such as Transformers, My Little Pony, and Monopoly.
  • E. Toyopa Group, LLC
    Toyopa Group, LLC is the original corporate name under which the company now known as Snap Inc., the parent of Snapchat, was first established.
  • 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_69d81c583b0081909e408a17db517a21 completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de0239cbfc81909064ac2457fdfff5 completed April 14, 2026, 9 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7b07460c081908b3836a3ec382961 completed May 3, 2026, 8:30 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7b162fca08190b7134abe2df1ad22 completed May 3, 2026, 8:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f7b236333481908fd6ff3f736dc24e completed May 3, 2026, 8:38 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:10 p.m.