Triple

T1774549
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject NuBus E38948 entity
Predicate wasInitiallyDesignedBy P184 FINISHED
Object Howard W. Johnson
Howard W. Johnson was an engineer and computer scientist known for his influential work in high-speed digital design and signal integrity.
E200301 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: Howard W. Johnson | Statement: [NuBus, wasInitiallyDesignedBy, Howard W. Johnson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard W. Johnson
Context triple: [NuBus, wasInitiallyDesignedBy, Howard W. Johnson]
  • A. Conrad Hilton
    Conrad Hilton was an American hotelier and businessman best known as the founder of Hilton Hotels.
  • B. Fred Harvey Company
    The Fred Harvey Company was a pioneering American hospitality and restaurant chain that served travelers along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and became famous for its well-trained waitresses known as the Harvey Girls.
  • C. Norman Brinker
    Norman Brinker was an influential American restaurateur and entrepreneur credited with pioneering the casual dining industry through brands like Chili’s and Steak and Ale.
  • D. S. W. Burger
    S. W. Burger is the commonly used name of Schalk Willem Burger, a prominent Boer military leader and acting president of the South African Republic during the Second Boer War.
  • E. Rodman Wanamaker
    Rodman Wanamaker was an American businessman and department store magnate whose support for professional golf helped lead to the creation of the PGA Championship and its iconic Wanamaker Trophy.
  • 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: Howard W. Johnson
Triple: [NuBus, wasInitiallyDesignedBy, Howard W. Johnson]
Generated description
Howard W. Johnson was an engineer and computer scientist known for his influential work in high-speed digital design and signal integrity.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard W. Johnson
Target entity description: Howard W. Johnson was an engineer and computer scientist known for his influential work in high-speed digital design and signal integrity.
  • A. Conrad Hilton
    Conrad Hilton was an American hotelier and businessman best known as the founder of Hilton Hotels.
  • B. Fred Harvey Company
    The Fred Harvey Company was a pioneering American hospitality and restaurant chain that served travelers along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and became famous for its well-trained waitresses known as the Harvey Girls.
  • C. Norman Brinker
    Norman Brinker was an influential American restaurateur and entrepreneur credited with pioneering the casual dining industry through brands like Chili’s and Steak and Ale.
  • D. S. W. Burger
    S. W. Burger is the commonly used name of Schalk Willem Burger, a prominent Boer military leader and acting president of the South African Republic during the Second Boer War.
  • E. Rodman Wanamaker
    Rodman Wanamaker was an American businessman and department store magnate whose support for professional golf helped lead to the creation of the PGA Championship and its iconic Wanamaker Trophy.
  • 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_69a8862e61708190af97b9838cc3f5de completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abaffee0f88190aa7a42ef4a4e2bd2 completed March 7, 2026, 4:56 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ada9982d208190b0c29ee1141e91b0 completed March 8, 2026, 4:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adab0295b8819092cb51082337b97b completed March 8, 2026, 4:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adaea83bfc8190a526d5f2bd460e4c completed March 8, 2026, 5:15 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:31 p.m.