Triple
T20533958
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company |
E504142
|
entity |
| Predicate | foundedBy |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object | John Baptiste Ford |
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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: John Baptiste Ford | Statement: [Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, foundedBy, John Baptiste Ford]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Baptiste Ford Context triple: [Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, foundedBy, John Baptiste Ford]
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A.
John Baptiste Ford
chosen
John Baptiste Ford was a 19th-century American industrialist and glass manufacturer best known for founding the company that became PPG Industries.
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B.
Steven Meigs Ford
Steven Meigs Ford is the son of former U.S. President Gerald Ford and First Lady Betty Ford.
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C.
Thomas Ford
Thomas Ford was an American politician who served as the eighth governor of Illinois from 1842 to 1846.
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D.
Charles E. Ford
Charles E. Ford was a film producer active during Hollywood’s early Western era, known for his work on genre pictures such as "Under Western Stars."
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E.
Edward Charles Ford
Edward Charles Ford, better known as Whitey Ford, was a Hall of Fame left-handed pitcher who starred for the New York Yankees in the 1950s and 1960s.
- 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_69e0b4b476648190bc6019622ae54d3c |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e6a06d30508190a13d1a9855b441fb |
completed | April 20, 2026, 9:53 p.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:37 a.m.