Triple
T14362851
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Sun Microsystems |
E356146
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableFounder |
P22
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Scott McNealy |
E71696
|
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: Scott McNealy | Statement: [Sun Microsystems, notableFounder, Scott McNealy]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Scott McNealy Context triple: [Sun Microsystems, notableFounder, Scott McNealy]
-
A.
Scott McNealy
chosen
Scott McNealy is an American businessman and co-founder of Sun Microsystems, known for his outspoken leadership in the tech industry and advocacy of open systems.
-
B.
Mitchell Kapor
Mitchell Kapor is an American entrepreneur and software pioneer best known for founding Lotus Development Corporation and co-creating the Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheet, as well as for his philanthropy and advocacy in technology and civil liberties.
-
C.
Urs Hölzle
Urs Hölzle is a Swiss computer scientist best known as one of Google’s first employees and its longtime Senior Vice President of Technical Infrastructure, where he has shaped the company’s large-scale computing systems.
-
D.
Andy Bechtolsheim
Andy Bechtolsheim is a German-born electrical engineer, entrepreneur, and billionaire best known as a co-founder of Sun Microsystems and an early investor in Google.
-
E.
Diane Greene
Diane Greene is a prominent American technology executive and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and former CEO of VMware and a former CEO of Google Cloud.
- 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_69d82790a7e08190877e2d349b2e8d8e |
completed | April 9, 2026, 10:26 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69de8fabec088190bd8128371b29e958 |
completed | April 14, 2026, 7:04 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69fda907abf88190b86ce65390d9ca40 |
completed | May 8, 2026, 9:12 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:15 a.m.