Triple

T15564179
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Oxford Nanopore Technologies E371073 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Spike Willcocks
Spike Willcocks is a biotechnology entrepreneur best known as a founder of the DNA sequencing company Oxford Nanopore Technologies.
E1164187 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: Spike Willcocks | Statement: [Oxford Nanopore Technologies, foundedBy, Spike Willcocks]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Spike Willcocks
Context triple: [Oxford Nanopore Technologies, foundedBy, Spike Willcocks]
  • A. Jonathan Mark Buckland
    Jonathan Mark Buckland is an English musician best known as the lead guitarist and a founding member of the rock band Coldplay.
  • B. Ken Baker
    Ken Baker is an actor known for his role in the film "Dressed to Kill."
  • C. Steven Ogg
    Steven Ogg is a Canadian actor best known for portraying the volatile character Trevor Phillips in the video game Grand Theft Auto V and for roles in television series such as The Walking Dead and Westworld.
  • D. Chris Partridge
    Chris Partridge is the young drummer and one of the children in the fictional musical family featured in the television sitcom "The Partridge Family."
  • E. Jack Feore
    Jack Feore is the son of Canadian-American actor Colm Feore.
  • 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: Spike Willcocks
Triple: [Oxford Nanopore Technologies, foundedBy, Spike Willcocks]
Generated description
Spike Willcocks is a biotechnology entrepreneur best known as a founder of the DNA sequencing company Oxford Nanopore Technologies.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Spike Willcocks
Target entity description: Spike Willcocks is a biotechnology entrepreneur best known as a founder of the DNA sequencing company Oxford Nanopore Technologies.
  • A. Jonathan Mark Buckland
    Jonathan Mark Buckland is an English musician best known as the lead guitarist and a founding member of the rock band Coldplay.
  • B. Ken Baker
    Ken Baker is an actor known for his role in the film "Dressed to Kill."
  • C. Steven Ogg
    Steven Ogg is a Canadian actor best known for portraying the volatile character Trevor Phillips in the video game Grand Theft Auto V and for roles in television series such as The Walking Dead and Westworld.
  • D. Chris Partridge
    Chris Partridge is the young drummer and one of the children in the fictional musical family featured in the television sitcom "The Partridge Family."
  • E. Jack Feore
    Jack Feore is the son of Canadian-American actor Colm Feore.
  • 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_69d85cc6cf40819091f4a5facee1ebe6 completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e04ddc66448190948280fb0c8d390c completed April 16, 2026, 2:47 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff456a3b08819092f9f517bbef5577 completed May 9, 2026, 2:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff49541fcc8190a1d22721bc255e19 completed May 9, 2026, 2:48 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff49f6db508190b0127a59d332512e completed May 9, 2026, 2:51 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:10 a.m.