Triple

T17173737
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mars, Incorporated E416803 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Frank C. Mars
Frank C. Mars was an American businessman and candy maker best known as the founder of the Mars confectionery company, creator of iconic brands like Milky Way and Snickers.
E1253395 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: Frank C. Mars | Statement: [Mars, Incorporated, foundedBy, Frank C. Mars]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frank C. Mars
Context triple: [Mars, Incorporated, foundedBy, Frank C. Mars]
  • A. Frank Hershey
    Frank Hershey was an American automobile designer best known for his influential work on iconic mid-20th-century car designs, including the original Ford Thunderbird.
  • B. Harriet Davidson Hershey
    Harriet Davidson Hershey was the wife and scientific collaborator of Nobel Prize–winning bacteriophage researcher Alfred Hershey.
  • C. James L. Kraft
    James L. Kraft was a Canadian-American entrepreneur and cheese manufacturer who founded the company that became Kraft Foods, one of the world’s largest food and beverage corporations.
  • D. William Wrigley Jr.
    William Wrigley Jr. was an American chewing gum industrialist and owner of the Chicago Cubs who built a business empire around Wrigley’s gum.
  • E. Milton S. Hershey
    Milton S. Hershey was an American chocolatier and philanthropist who founded the Hershey Chocolate Company and built the company town of Hershey, Pennsylvania.
  • 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: Frank C. Mars
Triple: [Mars, Incorporated, foundedBy, Frank C. Mars]
Generated description
Frank C. Mars was an American businessman and candy maker best known as the founder of the Mars confectionery company, creator of iconic brands like Milky Way and Snickers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frank C. Mars
Target entity description: Frank C. Mars was an American businessman and candy maker best known as the founder of the Mars confectionery company, creator of iconic brands like Milky Way and Snickers.
  • A. Frank Hershey
    Frank Hershey was an American automobile designer best known for his influential work on iconic mid-20th-century car designs, including the original Ford Thunderbird.
  • B. Harriet Davidson Hershey
    Harriet Davidson Hershey was the wife and scientific collaborator of Nobel Prize–winning bacteriophage researcher Alfred Hershey.
  • C. James L. Kraft
    James L. Kraft was a Canadian-American entrepreneur and cheese manufacturer who founded the company that became Kraft Foods, one of the world’s largest food and beverage corporations.
  • D. William Wrigley Jr.
    William Wrigley Jr. was an American chewing gum industrialist and owner of the Chicago Cubs who built a business empire around Wrigley’s gum.
  • E. Milton S. Hershey
    Milton S. Hershey was an American chocolatier and philanthropist who founded the Hershey Chocolate Company and built the company town of Hershey, Pennsylvania.
  • 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_69d886d5f34c8190b24564dfaa63f3fb completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3fc0b7c9c819082e503cb493d7e7b completed April 18, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0148415c788190a4248b097f323d03 completed May 11, 2026, 3:08 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0148efb45081908734c785d8fb833a completed May 11, 2026, 3:11 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a01495631588190a0670ca71dee7b36 completed May 11, 2026, 3:13 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:37 a.m.