Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject CrunchFund E334514 entity
Predicate hasLimitedPartners P112257 FINISHED
Object Ron Conway
Ron Conway is a prominent Silicon Valley angel investor and venture capitalist known for early-stage investments in major technology companies such as Google and Facebook.
E1070762 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: Ron Conway | Statement: [CrunchFund, hasLimitedPartners, Ron Conway]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ron Conway
Context triple: [CrunchFund, hasLimitedPartners, Ron Conway]
  • A. Adam Thiel
    Adam Thiel is an American public safety leader and emergency management expert known for serving as a fire commissioner and overseeing disaster preparedness and response efforts.
  • B. John Doerr
    John Doerr is a prominent American venture capitalist and early investor in major technology companies such as Google and Amazon.
  • C. Ben Horowitz
    Ben Horowitz is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and co-founder of the influential Silicon Valley firm Andreessen Horowitz, known for his leadership in tech investing and his writings on startup management.
  • D. Fred Wilson
    Fred Wilson is the ambitious and profit-driven Petrox Oil executive who leads the ill-fated expedition to Skull Island in the 1976 remake of King Kong.
  • E. Fred Wilson
    Fred Wilson is a venture capitalist best known as a co-founder of Union Square Ventures and an influential early-stage tech investor and blogger.
  • 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: Ron Conway
Triple: [CrunchFund, hasLimitedPartners, Ron Conway]
Generated description
Ron Conway is a prominent Silicon Valley angel investor and venture capitalist known for early-stage investments in major technology companies such as Google and Facebook.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ron Conway
Target entity description: Ron Conway is a prominent Silicon Valley angel investor and venture capitalist known for early-stage investments in major technology companies such as Google and Facebook.
  • A. Adam Thiel
    Adam Thiel is an American public safety leader and emergency management expert known for serving as a fire commissioner and overseeing disaster preparedness and response efforts.
  • B. John Doerr
    John Doerr is a prominent American venture capitalist and early investor in major technology companies such as Google and Amazon.
  • C. Ben Horowitz
    Ben Horowitz is an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and co-founder of the influential Silicon Valley firm Andreessen Horowitz, known for his leadership in tech investing and his writings on startup management.
  • D. Fred Wilson
    Fred Wilson is the ambitious and profit-driven Petrox Oil executive who leads the ill-fated expedition to Skull Island in the 1976 remake of King Kong.
  • E. Fred Wilson
    Fred Wilson is a venture capitalist best known as a co-founder of Union Square Ventures and an influential early-stage tech investor and blogger.
  • 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_69d81c5eaa9c819083b1ff8689179565 completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de2aa428ac819084e7c4b244d15f20 completed April 14, 2026, 11:53 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7ce783d808190b0e0ec89591af51d completed May 3, 2026, 10:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7cf95e5a08190b264e543877d2852 completed May 3, 2026, 10:43 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fb5504702081908a1492f1a8e24434 completed May 6, 2026, 2:49 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:16 p.m.