Triple

T1689540
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Industrial Research Institute Medal E36519 entity
Predicate hasRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object John Seely Brown
John Seely Brown is an American researcher and former chief scientist at Xerox PARC known for his influential work on organizational learning, innovation, and the social dimensions of technology.
E191417 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: John Seely Brown | Statement: [Industrial Research Institute Medal, hasRecipient, John Seely Brown]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Seely Brown
Context triple: [Industrial Research Institute Medal, hasRecipient, John Seely Brown]
  • A. Nicholas Negroponte
    Nicholas Negroponte is an American architect and technology visionary best known as the founding director of the MIT Media Lab and a prominent advocate for the digital revolution.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Tim O'Reilly
    Tim O'Reilly is a prominent technology publisher, author, and founder of O'Reilly Media, known for popularizing terms like "open source" and "Web 2.0" and for his influential role in shaping the modern tech industry.
  • D. John Simon Ritchie
    John Simon Ritchie, better known as Sid Vicious, was the bassist of the pioneering English punk rock band the Sex Pistols and an icon of the 1970s punk movement.
  • E. Mitchell Baker
    Mitchell Baker is an American business leader and open-source advocate best known as the longtime chair and former CEO of Mozilla, where she has guided the development of the Firefox web browser and the organization’s internet-for-good mission.
  • 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: John Seely Brown
Triple: [Industrial Research Institute Medal, hasRecipient, John Seely Brown]
Generated description
John Seely Brown is an American researcher and former chief scientist at Xerox PARC known for his influential work on organizational learning, innovation, and the social dimensions of technology.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Seely Brown
Target entity description: John Seely Brown is an American researcher and former chief scientist at Xerox PARC known for his influential work on organizational learning, innovation, and the social dimensions of technology.
  • A. Nicholas Negroponte
    Nicholas Negroponte is an American architect and technology visionary best known as the founding director of the MIT Media Lab and a prominent advocate for the digital revolution.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Tim O'Reilly
    Tim O'Reilly is a prominent technology publisher, author, and founder of O'Reilly Media, known for popularizing terms like "open source" and "Web 2.0" and for his influential role in shaping the modern tech industry.
  • D. John Simon Ritchie
    John Simon Ritchie, better known as Sid Vicious, was the bassist of the pioneering English punk rock band the Sex Pistols and an icon of the 1970s punk movement.
  • E. Mitchell Baker
    Mitchell Baker is an American business leader and open-source advocate best known as the longtime chair and former CEO of Mozilla, where she has guided the development of the Firefox web browser and the organization’s internet-for-good mission.
  • 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_69a886151508819084fa7f1ce6e05577 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa62979da48190a64a04bf352182e0 completed March 6, 2026, 5:13 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad7992792081909af4312ae8a448a2 completed March 8, 2026, 1:28 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad7ab4aca48190936384bfa1cdeccf completed March 8, 2026, 1:33 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad7b34c3248190bb93769e55df7189 completed March 8, 2026, 1:35 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:29 p.m.