Triple

T17078148
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Guardian Industries E414402 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object William Davidson
William Davidson was an American industrialist and sports team owner best known for building Guardian Industries into a global glass manufacturing giant and owning the Detroit Pistons.
E1249959 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: William Davidson | Statement: [Guardian Industries, founder, William Davidson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Davidson
Context triple: [Guardian Industries, founder, William Davidson]
  • A. William Davidson
    William Davidson is a television producer best known for his work on the Canadian science fiction series "The Starlost."
  • B. William Davidson
    William Davidson was a Jamaican-born radical who became one of the key conspirators in the 1820 Cato Street plot to assassinate British government ministers.
  • C. William A. Davidson
    William A. Davidson was one of the early co-founders and key leaders of the iconic American motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson.
  • D. William Lee Davidson
    William Lee Davidson was an American Revolutionary War officer from North Carolina who was killed in battle in 1781 and later honored as the namesake of Davidson County.
  • E. William B. Davidson
    William B. Davidson was an American character actor of the early 20th century known for his supporting roles in numerous Hollywood films.
  • 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: William Davidson
Triple: [Guardian Industries, founder, William Davidson]
Generated description
William Davidson was an American industrialist and sports team owner best known for building Guardian Industries into a global glass manufacturing giant and owning the Detroit Pistons.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Davidson
Target entity description: William Davidson was an American industrialist and sports team owner best known for building Guardian Industries into a global glass manufacturing giant and owning the Detroit Pistons.
  • A. William Davidson
    William Davidson is a television producer best known for his work on the Canadian science fiction series "The Starlost."
  • B. William Davidson
    William Davidson was a Jamaican-born radical who became one of the key conspirators in the 1820 Cato Street plot to assassinate British government ministers.
  • C. William A. Davidson
    William A. Davidson was one of the early co-founders and key leaders of the iconic American motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson.
  • D. William Lee Davidson
    William Lee Davidson was an American Revolutionary War officer from North Carolina who was killed in battle in 1781 and later honored as the namesake of Davidson County.
  • E. William B. Davidson
    William B. Davidson was an American character actor of the early 20th century known for his supporting roles in numerous Hollywood films.
  • 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_69d886cef44c8190ba56c44b4e863e64 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3dbc625c48190b679a521180e10ad completed April 18, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a012ee243c081909aa6d470e002222a completed May 11, 2026, 1:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a013055b5148190aa5f6a007cb728ac completed May 11, 2026, 1:26 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0130c5f7388190b10a62ed1b61cce0 completed May 11, 2026, 1:28 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:34 a.m.