Triple

T16311520
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Office Depot E396067 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Stephen Dougherty
Stephen Dougherty is an American entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the office supply retail chain Office Depot.
E1215978 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: Stephen Dougherty | Statement: [Office Depot, foundedBy, Stephen Dougherty]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Stephen Dougherty
Context triple: [Office Depot, foundedBy, Stephen Dougherty]
  • A. David Hartnett
    David Hartnett is a British civil servant best known for serving as the Permanent Secretary for Tax at HM Revenue and Customs, where he was the UK's top tax official.
  • B. Graeme Duffin
    Graeme Duffin is a Scottish guitarist best known for his long-time, though often unofficial, role as the lead guitarist for the pop band Wet Wet Wet.
  • C. Stephen F. Martin
    Stephen F. Martin is an American organic chemist renowned for his influential research in synthetic methodology and complex molecule synthesis.
  • D. Michael Dougherty
    Michael Dougherty is an American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for genre films like Trick 'r Treat and Krampus and for directing the MonsterVerse installment Godzilla: King of the Monsters.
  • E. Michael Dougherty
    Michael Dougherty is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the online real estate brokerage platform Redfin.
  • 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: Stephen Dougherty
Triple: [Office Depot, foundedBy, Stephen Dougherty]
Generated description
Stephen Dougherty is an American entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the office supply retail chain Office Depot.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Stephen Dougherty
Target entity description: Stephen Dougherty is an American entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the office supply retail chain Office Depot.
  • A. David Hartnett
    David Hartnett is a British civil servant best known for serving as the Permanent Secretary for Tax at HM Revenue and Customs, where he was the UK's top tax official.
  • B. Graeme Duffin
    Graeme Duffin is a Scottish guitarist best known for his long-time, though often unofficial, role as the lead guitarist for the pop band Wet Wet Wet.
  • C. Stephen F. Martin
    Stephen F. Martin is an American organic chemist renowned for his influential research in synthetic methodology and complex molecule synthesis.
  • D. Michael Dougherty
    Michael Dougherty is an American filmmaker and screenwriter best known for genre films like Trick 'r Treat and Krampus and for directing the MonsterVerse installment Godzilla: King of the Monsters.
  • E. Michael Dougherty
    Michael Dougherty is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the online real estate brokerage platform Redfin.
  • 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_69d87f23bb088190a16fbb91a1957ea5 completed April 10, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e288dafb608190be35bd60342bb44e completed April 17, 2026, 7:24 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00580b94c88190a3330791e505fd6a completed May 10, 2026, 10:03 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a005874858881908eb3549cbabdf44b completed May 10, 2026, 10:05 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a005917197c8190988b3b1960887b6d completed May 10, 2026, 10:08 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:06 a.m.