Triple

T3107225
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject James Sinegal E64860 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Sinegal
Sinegal is a surname most notably associated with James Sinegal, the co-founder and longtime CEO of Costco Wholesale Corporation.
 E326875 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: Sinegal | Statement: [James Sinegal, familyName, Sinegal]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sinegal
Context triple: [James Sinegal, familyName, Sinegal]
  • A. Singine
    Singine is a river in western Switzerland that flows through the canton of Fribourg and serves as part of the linguistic boundary between French- and German-speaking regions.
  • B. Sinis
    Sinis is a bandit from Greek mythology, notorious for violently killing travelers by bending and releasing pine trees, who was ultimately slain by the hero Theseus.
  • C. Kadina
    Kadina is a historic copper mining town and one of the main commercial centers on South Australia's Yorke Peninsula.
  • D. Sikma
    Sikma is a surname most notably associated with Jack Sikma, a Hall of Fame American basketball player known for his successful NBA career with the Seattle SuperSonics.
  • E. Zimeysa
    Zimeysa is a railway station in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland, serving local and regional train services on the Geneva–La Plaine line.
  • 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: Sinegal
Triple: [James Sinegal, familyName, Sinegal]
Generated description
Sinegal is a surname most notably associated with James Sinegal, the co-founder and longtime CEO of Costco Wholesale Corporation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sinegal
Target entity description: Sinegal is a surname most notably associated with James Sinegal, the co-founder and longtime CEO of Costco Wholesale Corporation.
  • A. Singine
    Singine is a river in western Switzerland that flows through the canton of Fribourg and serves as part of the linguistic boundary between French- and German-speaking regions.
  • B. Sinis
    Sinis is a bandit from Greek mythology, notorious for violently killing travelers by bending and releasing pine trees, who was ultimately slain by the hero Theseus.
  • C. Kadina
    Kadina is a historic copper mining town and one of the main commercial centers on South Australia's Yorke Peninsula.
  • D. Sikma
    Sikma is a surname most notably associated with Jack Sikma, a Hall of Fame American basketball player known for his successful NBA career with the Seattle SuperSonics.
  • E. Zimeysa
    Zimeysa is a railway station in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland, serving local and regional train services on the Geneva–La Plaine line.
  • 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_69ad857eeaf48190b34ebfdaa7a264cf completed March 8, 2026, 2:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ada29d4aa8819093287bc71370fc05 completed March 8, 2026, 4:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b2038c89248190b880108c82ad35b1 completed March 12, 2026, 12:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b2046f76488190adef6685544b080e completed March 12, 2026, 12:10 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b2054bca388190ad40b2303ac96373 completed March 12, 2026, 12:14 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:04 p.m.