Triple
T19182683
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Walter A. Shewhart |
E469614
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entity |
| Predicate | influenced |
P9
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FINISHED |
| Object | W. Edwards Deming |
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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: W. Edwards Deming | Statement: [Walter A. Shewhart, influenced, W. Edwards Deming]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: W. Edwards Deming Context triple: [Walter A. Shewhart, influenced, W. Edwards Deming]
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A.
W. Edwards Deming
chosen
W. Edwards Deming was an American statistician, professor, and management consultant renowned for pioneering modern quality management and continuous improvement practices in industry.
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B.
Deming
Deming is a small city in southwestern New Mexico known as a transportation hub and gateway to nearby desert and historical attractions.
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C.
Philip W. Crosby
Philip W. Crosby was an American public official who served as a key financial administrator for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the late 19th century.
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D.
Philip W. Crosby
Philip W. Crosby was an influential American businessman and quality management expert best known for promoting the concept of “zero defects” and authoring the seminal book *Quality Is Free*.
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E.
Raphael H. Deming
Raphael H. Deming was an American figure of sufficient local or historical prominence to be recognized as a notable burial at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Washington, D.C.
- 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_69d8dd09d5a081909ae43c286651ae5a |
completed | April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e5f61e1c248190ba9e220c1be61ef8 |
completed | April 20, 2026, 9:47 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 12:07 p.m.