Triple

T2856978
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Greyhound Lines E63224 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object Carl Eric Wickman
Carl Eric Wickman was a Swedish-American entrepreneur who built a small carpooling venture into Greyhound, the largest intercity bus transportation company in the United States.
E305015 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: Carl Eric Wickman | Statement: [Greyhound Lines, founder, Carl Eric Wickman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Carl Eric Wickman
Context triple: [Greyhound Lines, founder, Carl Eric Wickman]
  • A. Carl Molinder
    Carl Molinder is a Swedish film producer best known for his work on the critically acclaimed horror drama "Let the Right One In."
  • B. Anders Hagfeldt
    Anders Hagfeldt is a Swedish chemist and academic leader known for his research in solar cell technology and his role as a university administrator.
  • C. Lars Jansson
    Lars Jansson was a Finnish comic strip artist and writer best known for continuing and expanding the beloved Moomin comic series originally created by his sister Tove Jansson.
  • D. Patrik Stymne
    Patrik Stymne is a Swedish entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the mobile gaming company King Digital Entertainment, creator of Candy Crush Saga.
  • E. Lars Gustafsson
    Lars Gustafsson was a prominent Swedish novelist, poet, and philosopher known for his intellectually playful, metafictional works and significant influence on late 20th-century Scandinavian literature.
  • 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: Carl Eric Wickman
Triple: [Greyhound Lines, founder, Carl Eric Wickman]
Generated description
Carl Eric Wickman was a Swedish-American entrepreneur who built a small carpooling venture into Greyhound, the largest intercity bus transportation company in the United States.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Carl Eric Wickman
Target entity description: Carl Eric Wickman was a Swedish-American entrepreneur who built a small carpooling venture into Greyhound, the largest intercity bus transportation company in the United States.
  • A. Carl Molinder
    Carl Molinder is a Swedish film producer best known for his work on the critically acclaimed horror drama "Let the Right One In."
  • B. Anders Hagfeldt
    Anders Hagfeldt is a Swedish chemist and academic leader known for his research in solar cell technology and his role as a university administrator.
  • C. Lars Jansson
    Lars Jansson was a Finnish comic strip artist and writer best known for continuing and expanding the beloved Moomin comic series originally created by his sister Tove Jansson.
  • D. Patrik Stymne
    Patrik Stymne is a Swedish entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the mobile gaming company King Digital Entertainment, creator of Candy Crush Saga.
  • E. Lars Gustafsson
    Lars Gustafsson was a prominent Swedish novelist, poet, and philosopher known for his intellectually playful, metafictional works and significant influence on late 20th-century Scandinavian literature.
  • 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_69ab4c41e8c08190a9e8f5249cc12610 completed March 6, 2026, 9:50 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abdf881bbc81908987317b88b405d0 completed March 7, 2026, 8:19 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b01d8d0eec8190b0b29407264fb2bd completed March 10, 2026, 1:33 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b020869d7c81909d9a00cc43f0ed7d completed March 10, 2026, 1:45 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b02122270c8190a063f09acefcbb18 completed March 10, 2026, 1:48 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 10:02 p.m.