Triple

T16048947
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Chairman of IBM E389298 entity
Predicate notableOfficeHolder P5750 FINISHED
Object Thomas J. Watson Jr.
Thomas J. Watson Jr. was an American businessman and son of IBM’s founder who transformed IBM into a global computing leader and served as U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union.
 E1192987 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: Thomas J. Watson Jr. | Statement: [Chairman of IBM, notableOfficeHolder, Thomas J. Watson Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas J. Watson Jr.
Context triple: [Chairman of IBM, notableOfficeHolder, Thomas J. Watson Jr.]
  • A. Thomas J. Watson
    Thomas J. Watson was an American business executive best known for transforming the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company into IBM and leading it to become a dominant force in the early computer industry.
  • B. Louis V. Gerstner Jr.
    Louis V. Gerstner Jr. is an American businessman best known for leading IBM’s dramatic turnaround in the 1990s as its chief executive.
  • C. Thomas W. Sarnoff
    Thomas W. Sarnoff is an American television executive and producer known for his influential roles in network programming and media management.
  • D. Edward C. Johnson II
    Edward C. Johnson II was an American businessman and investor best known as the founder of the mutual fund giant Fidelity Investments.
  • E. Thomas Siebel
    Thomas Siebel is an American technology entrepreneur best known as the founder of Siebel Systems and later the cloud computing company C3.ai.
  • 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: Thomas J. Watson Jr.
Triple: [Chairman of IBM, notableOfficeHolder, Thomas J. Watson Jr.]
Generated description
Thomas J. Watson Jr. was an American businessman and son of IBM’s founder who transformed IBM into a global computing leader and served as U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thomas J. Watson Jr.
Target entity description: Thomas J. Watson Jr. was an American businessman and son of IBM’s founder who transformed IBM into a global computing leader and served as U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union.
  • A. Thomas J. Watson
    Thomas J. Watson was an American business executive best known for transforming the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company into IBM and leading it to become a dominant force in the early computer industry.
  • B. Louis V. Gerstner Jr.
    Louis V. Gerstner Jr. is an American businessman best known for leading IBM’s dramatic turnaround in the 1990s as its chief executive.
  • C. Thomas W. Sarnoff
    Thomas W. Sarnoff is an American television executive and producer known for his influential roles in network programming and media management.
  • D. Edward C. Johnson II
    Edward C. Johnson II was an American businessman and investor best known as the founder of the mutual fund giant Fidelity Investments.
  • E. Thomas Siebel
    Thomas Siebel is an American technology entrepreneur best known as the founder of Siebel Systems and later the cloud computing company C3.ai.
  • 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_69d86dae698881908327ef2d67706cb9 completed April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e18360464881909fd4d3bcb4ffb7f5 completed April 17, 2026, 12:48 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ffe478bcc48190bdd4fcb7ec51caad completed May 10, 2026, 1:50 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ffe6af1c4081908b57f4dc485fbb14 completed May 10, 2026, 2 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ffe769d56081908f723e92d327e315 completed May 10, 2026, 2:03 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:56 a.m.