Triple

T16794881
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Beckman Coulter E408206 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Wallace Coulter
Wallace Coulter was an American engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur best known for developing the Coulter Principle for counting and sizing microscopic particles and for co-founding the medical diagnostics company Beckman Coulter.
E1233253 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: Wallace Coulter | Statement: [Beckman Coulter, foundedBy, Wallace Coulter]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wallace Coulter
Context triple: [Beckman Coulter, foundedBy, Wallace Coulter]
  • A. Charles Walters
    Charles Walters was an American film director and choreographer best known for his work on classic MGM musicals in the mid-20th century.
  • B. Richard Bower
    Richard Bower was a 16th-century English musician and court official who directed and trained the boy choristers of the Chapel Royal under the Tudor monarchs.
  • C. Nicholas Wootton
    Nicholas Wootton is an American television writer and producer best known for his work on crime and drama series such as "NYPD Blue" and "Law & Order."
  • D. Willis Davidge
    Willis Davidge is a human starfighter pilot and central character in the science fiction film "Enemy Mine," known for forming an unlikely friendship with an alien named Jeriba Shigan after they are stranded together on a hostile planet.
  • E. David E. Talbert
    David E. Talbert is an American playwright, author, and filmmaker known for his romantic comedies and stage-to-screen adaptations.
  • 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: Wallace Coulter
Triple: [Beckman Coulter, foundedBy, Wallace Coulter]
Generated description
Wallace Coulter was an American engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur best known for developing the Coulter Principle for counting and sizing microscopic particles and for co-founding the medical diagnostics company Beckman Coulter.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wallace Coulter
Target entity description: Wallace Coulter was an American engineer, inventor, and entrepreneur best known for developing the Coulter Principle for counting and sizing microscopic particles and for co-founding the medical diagnostics company Beckman Coulter.
  • A. Charles Walters
    Charles Walters was an American film director and choreographer best known for his work on classic MGM musicals in the mid-20th century.
  • B. Richard Bower
    Richard Bower was a 16th-century English musician and court official who directed and trained the boy choristers of the Chapel Royal under the Tudor monarchs.
  • C. Nicholas Wootton
    Nicholas Wootton is an American television writer and producer best known for his work on crime and drama series such as "NYPD Blue" and "Law & Order."
  • D. Willis Davidge
    Willis Davidge is a human starfighter pilot and central character in the science fiction film "Enemy Mine," known for forming an unlikely friendship with an alien named Jeriba Shigan after they are stranded together on a hostile planet.
  • E. David E. Talbert
    David E. Talbert is an American playwright, author, and filmmaker known for his romantic comedies and stage-to-screen adaptations.
  • 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_69d88393905081908d00a86b99996ac8 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3b2a96d888190a9876c3784bb7f95 completed April 18, 2026, 4:34 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00ab0e1e9c8190bb2ef0825b25f6e5 completed May 10, 2026, 3:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00ac1d18c08190969108e567d6eced completed May 10, 2026, 4:02 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00acc658f881908db64ebfa5a86f84 completed May 10, 2026, 4:05 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:22 a.m.