Triple
T22876381
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Thinking Machines Corporation |
E567336
|
entity |
| Predicate | foundedBy |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Danny Hillis |
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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: Danny Hillis | Statement: [Thinking Machines Corporation, foundedBy, Danny Hillis]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Danny Hillis Context triple: [Thinking Machines Corporation, foundedBy, Danny Hillis]
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A.
Danny Hillis
chosen
Danny Hillis is an American inventor, computer scientist, and entrepreneur best known for pioneering parallel computing and co-founding Thinking Machines Corporation.
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B.
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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C.
Sydney M. Mead
Sydney M. Mead is a scholar of religion known for his influential work on American religious history and the role of religion in shaping national identity.
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D.
Roy Neary
Roy Neary is the everyman electrical lineman whose obsessive encounter with a UFO drives the central narrative of the science fiction film "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."
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E.
Hank Greenspun
Hank Greenspun was an American newspaper publisher, political activist, and philanthropist best known as the influential owner of the Las Vegas Sun.
- 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_69e24589d8348190b96422d13a678bc1 |
completed | April 17, 2026, 2:36 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f17f58a7308190b710bdf013e2e114 |
completed | April 29, 2026, 3:47 a.m. |
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:39 p.m.