Triple
T3047907
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Toyota Production System |
E83492
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableProponent |
P7346
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Taiichi Ohno
Taiichi Ohno was a Japanese industrial engineer and executive at Toyota who is widely regarded as the father of the Toyota Production System and a pioneer of modern lean manufacturing.
|
E323029
|
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: Taiichi Ohno | Statement: [Toyota Production System, notableProponent, Taiichi Ohno]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Taiichi Ohno Context triple: [Toyota Production System, notableProponent, Taiichi Ohno]
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A.
Kiichiro Toyoda
Kiichiro Toyoda was a Japanese industrialist who transformed his family’s loom business into what became the Toyota automotive empire and pioneered Japan’s modern automobile industry.
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B.
Soemu Toyoda
Soemu Toyoda was a high-ranking admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy who served as Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet during the later stages of World War II.
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C.
Démíng
Démíng is the courtesy name of Sun Yat-sen, the revolutionary leader often regarded as the founding father of modern China.
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D.
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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E.
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*.
- 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: Taiichi Ohno Triple: [Toyota Production System, notableProponent, Taiichi Ohno]
Generated description
Taiichi Ohno was a Japanese industrial engineer and executive at Toyota who is widely regarded as the father of the Toyota Production System and a pioneer of modern lean manufacturing.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Taiichi Ohno Target entity description: Taiichi Ohno was a Japanese industrial engineer and executive at Toyota who is widely regarded as the father of the Toyota Production System and a pioneer of modern lean manufacturing.
-
A.
Kiichiro Toyoda
Kiichiro Toyoda was a Japanese industrialist who transformed his family’s loom business into what became the Toyota automotive empire and pioneered Japan’s modern automobile industry.
-
B.
Soemu Toyoda
Soemu Toyoda was a high-ranking admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy who served as Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet during the later stages of World War II.
-
C.
Démíng
Démíng is the courtesy name of Sun Yat-sen, the revolutionary leader often regarded as the founding father of modern China.
-
D.
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.
-
E.
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*.
- 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_69ad8b24924c8190a9bb6f61d519e4ae |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69ad9baed3848190a8351d9c8c4edc79 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 3:54 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b1eef7d1e081908535b7d972a147eb |
completed | March 11, 2026, 10:38 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b1f0ad56dc81909c96018e34345fda |
completed | March 11, 2026, 10:46 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b1f13a34c88190aa829d8d87a5d29b |
completed | March 11, 2026, 10:48 p.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:01 p.m.