Triple

T2978838
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Burroughs Corporation E80461 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object William Seward Burroughs I E314065 NE FINISHED

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: William Seward Burroughs I | Statement: [Burroughs Corporation, foundedBy, William Seward Burroughs I]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Seward Burroughs I
Context triple: [Burroughs Corporation, foundedBy, William Seward Burroughs I]
  • A. William Seward Burroughs I chosen
    William Seward Burroughs I was an American inventor and businessman best known for developing and patenting an early adding machine and founding the company that became Burroughs Corporation.
  • B. William S. Burroughs
    William S. Burroughs was an influential American novelist and essayist known for his experimental, transgressive works such as "Naked Lunch" and his central role in the development of postwar countercultural literature.
  • C. Henry Miller
    Henry Miller was an American writer known for his semi-autobiographical, sexually candid, and experimental novels such as "Tropic of Cancer," which challenged literary and censorship norms in the 20th century.
  • D. Henry Gordon Bennett
    Henry Gordon Bennett was an Australian Army lieutenant general best known for his controversial leadership during World War II, particularly in the Malayan campaign and the fall of Singapore.
  • E. Windland Smith Rice
    Windland Smith Rice was an American nature and wildlife photographer and conservationist, known for her award-winning images and for being the daughter of FedEx founder Frederick W. Smith.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69ad8b15f6ac8190be5fd16a33edcb4f completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad999cca40819082e2d6d10bdb7872 completed March 8, 2026, 3:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b20f38a1548190bdddf65853632db1 completed March 12, 2026, 12:56 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 2:58 p.m.