Triple

T14789944
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cintas Corporation E347625 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Richard T. Farmer
Richard T. Farmer is an American businessman best known as the founder and longtime leader of the uniform-rental and business services company Cintas Corporation.
E1145968 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 T. Farmer | Statement: [Cintas Corporation, foundedBy, Richard T. Farmer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard T. Farmer
Context triple: [Cintas Corporation, foundedBy, Richard T. Farmer]
  • A. Walter R. Farmer
    Walter R. Farmer was an American Army officer and museum professional best known for leading efforts to protect and repatriate European artworks looted during World War II as part of the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program.
  • B. William R. Farmer
    William R. Farmer was a 20th-century American New Testament scholar best known for challenging the dominant two-source theory of Gospel origins and advocating a revival of the Griesbach (Two-Gospel) hypothesis.
  • C. Allen M. Davey
    Allen M. Davey was an American cinematographer known for his work on early Technicolor films in Hollywood.
  • D. Ernest Melvin Farmer
    Ernest Melvin Farmer was the father of American actress Frances Farmer, known primarily in relation to her life and career.
  • E. Robert N. Fitch
    Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
  • 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 T. Farmer
Triple: [Cintas Corporation, foundedBy, Richard T. Farmer]
Generated description
Richard T. Farmer is an American businessman best known as the founder and longtime leader of the uniform-rental and business services company Cintas Corporation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard T. Farmer
Target entity description: Richard T. Farmer is an American businessman best known as the founder and longtime leader of the uniform-rental and business services company Cintas Corporation.
  • A. Walter R. Farmer
    Walter R. Farmer was an American Army officer and museum professional best known for leading efforts to protect and repatriate European artworks looted during World War II as part of the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program.
  • B. William R. Farmer
    William R. Farmer was a 20th-century American New Testament scholar best known for challenging the dominant two-source theory of Gospel origins and advocating a revival of the Griesbach (Two-Gospel) hypothesis.
  • C. Allen M. Davey
    Allen M. Davey was an American cinematographer known for his work on early Technicolor films in Hollywood.
  • D. Ernest Melvin Farmer
    Ernest Melvin Farmer was the father of American actress Frances Farmer, known primarily in relation to her life and career.
  • E. Robert N. Fitch
    Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
  • 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_69d822e9b9e08190bedcc31a163fda82 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69decaa1e9ec81908d7c26c1c4e43014 completed April 14, 2026, 11:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fee5dee8988190b80cb487c12bfc2d completed May 9, 2026, 7:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fee68055b88190afa0e3b1bc2b13bb completed May 9, 2026, 7:47 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fee7190a6c81908fa7376f3e3c5371 completed May 9, 2026, 7:49 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:31 a.m.