Triple

T14316690
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomson Corporation E354973 entity
Predicate chiefExecutiveOfficer P2568 FINISHED
Object Richard J. Harrington
Richard J. Harrington is a business executive best known for leading Thomson Corporation through its transformation into a major global information services company.
E1093259 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: Richard J. Harrington | Statement: [Thomson Corporation, chiefExecutiveOfficer, Richard J. Harrington]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard J. Harrington
Context triple: [Thomson Corporation, chiefExecutiveOfficer, Richard J. Harrington]
  • A. Richard Harrington
    Richard Harrington is the central astronaut protagonist in the science fiction horror film "The Last Days on Mars," whose experiences drive the story’s tension and survival narrative.
  • B. Jim Weirich
    Jim Weirich was an influential American software developer and speaker best known in the Ruby community for his contributions to open-source tools and his work in promoting clean code practices.
  • C. Richard Hamlett
    Richard Hamlett is an American real estate developer best known for his marriage to actress and singer Debbie Reynolds.
  • D. Steve Hurley
    Steve Hurley is an American DJ, producer, and remixer known as a pioneering figure in Chicago house music.
  • E. Ken Arnold
    Ken Arnold is an American aviator whose 1947 report of seeing unidentified flying objects near Mount Rainier helped popularize the term "flying saucer" and sparked modern UFO interest.
  • 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: Richard J. Harrington
Triple: [Thomson Corporation, chiefExecutiveOfficer, Richard J. Harrington]
Generated description
Richard J. Harrington is a business executive best known for leading Thomson Corporation through its transformation into a major global information services company.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard J. Harrington
Target entity description: Richard J. Harrington is a business executive best known for leading Thomson Corporation through its transformation into a major global information services company.
  • A. Richard Harrington
    Richard Harrington is the central astronaut protagonist in the science fiction horror film "The Last Days on Mars," whose experiences drive the story’s tension and survival narrative.
  • B. Jim Weirich
    Jim Weirich was an influential American software developer and speaker best known in the Ruby community for his contributions to open-source tools and his work in promoting clean code practices.
  • C. Richard Hamlett
    Richard Hamlett is an American real estate developer best known for his marriage to actress and singer Debbie Reynolds.
  • D. Steve Hurley
    Steve Hurley is an American DJ, producer, and remixer known as a pioneering figure in Chicago house music.
  • E. Ken Arnold
    Ken Arnold is an American aviator whose 1947 report of seeing unidentified flying objects near Mount Rainier helped popularize the term "flying saucer" and sparked modern UFO interest.
  • 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_69d8278ed42c8190b9f882dcce611347 completed April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de8838e45c819080ee69dd39e3bd43 completed April 14, 2026, 6:32 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fd468a3b788190812ff0eed84fd139 completed May 8, 2026, 2:12 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fd473650cc81908fa55e6021161a15 completed May 8, 2026, 2:15 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fd4851528c81909855c0f8484c278e completed May 8, 2026, 2:20 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:12 a.m.