Triple
T18464010
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Pirates of Silicon Valley |
E451109
|
entity |
| Predicate | portrayedBy |
P1507
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Mike Markkula – Allan Royal |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Mike Markkula – Allan Royal | Statement: [Pirates of Silicon Valley, portrayedBy, Mike Markkula – Allan Royal]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mike Markkula – Allan Royal Context triple: [Pirates of Silicon Valley, portrayedBy, Mike Markkula – Allan Royal]
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A.
Mike Markkula
chosen
Mike Markkula is an American entrepreneur and early investor who played a crucial role in the founding and initial growth of Apple Computer, serving as its first major backer and a key executive.
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B.
Andy Bechtolsheim
Andy Bechtolsheim is a German-born electrical engineer, entrepreneur, and billionaire best known as a co-founder of Sun Microsystems and an early investor in Google.
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C.
Hank Greenspun
Hank Greenspun was an American newspaper publisher, political activist, and philanthropist best known as the influential owner of the Las Vegas Sun.
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D.
Leonard Bosack
Leonard Bosack is an American computer engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Cisco Systems, a pioneering company in computer networking and internet infrastructure.
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E.
John Sculley
John Sculley is an American businessman best known for serving as Apple’s CEO in the 1980s after being recruited from PepsiCo, during which time he both helped expand the company and clashed with Steve Jobs.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69d8d38345688190b565eac2e4cd7935 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e52a8190508190a74b1d3482364905 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 7:18 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:33 a.m.