Triple

T3521312
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Kmart Corporation E74427 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Sebastian Spering Kresge
Sebastian Spering Kresge was an American businessman and philanthropist best known for building a national chain of discount variety stores and endowing the influential Kresge Foundation.
 E364276 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: Sebastian Spering Kresge | Statement: [Kmart Corporation, foundedBy, Sebastian Spering Kresge]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sebastian Spering Kresge
Context triple: [Kmart Corporation, foundedBy, Sebastian Spering Kresge]
  • A. H. Craig Severance
    H. Craig Severance was an American architect known for his prominent early 20th-century skyscraper designs in New York City.
  • B. Stephen Vanderburgh Harkness
    Stephen Vanderburgh Harkness was an American businessman and early investor in Standard Oil who became a major industrialist and philanthropist in the late 19th century.
  • C. Daniel C. Drucker
    Daniel C. Drucker was a prominent American engineer and applied mechanician known for his influential contributions to plasticity theory and solid mechanics.
  • D. George Storrs
    George Storrs was a 19th-century American Christian preacher and writer known for his advocacy of conditional immortality and nontrinitarian views, which significantly shaped early Adventist and Bible Student theology.
  • E. Charles J.D. Schlissel
    Charles J.D. Schlissel is a film producer best known for his work on major Hollywood thrillers such as "Flightplan."
  • 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: Sebastian Spering Kresge
Triple: [Kmart Corporation, foundedBy, Sebastian Spering Kresge]
Generated description
Sebastian Spering Kresge was an American businessman and philanthropist best known for building a national chain of discount variety stores and endowing the influential Kresge Foundation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sebastian Spering Kresge
Target entity description: Sebastian Spering Kresge was an American businessman and philanthropist best known for building a national chain of discount variety stores and endowing the influential Kresge Foundation.
  • A. H. Craig Severance
    H. Craig Severance was an American architect known for his prominent early 20th-century skyscraper designs in New York City.
  • B. Stephen Vanderburgh Harkness
    Stephen Vanderburgh Harkness was an American businessman and early investor in Standard Oil who became a major industrialist and philanthropist in the late 19th century.
  • C. Daniel C. Drucker
    Daniel C. Drucker was a prominent American engineer and applied mechanician known for his influential contributions to plasticity theory and solid mechanics.
  • D. George Storrs
    George Storrs was a 19th-century American Christian preacher and writer known for his advocacy of conditional immortality and nontrinitarian views, which significantly shaped early Adventist and Bible Student theology.
  • E. Charles J.D. Schlissel
    Charles J.D. Schlissel is a film producer best known for his work on major Hollywood thrillers such as "Flightplan."
  • 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_69ad85d0c5488190a3d8e02ebd01a1aa completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adbc4c6ac8819096e9c773f3cccbfb completed March 8, 2026, 6:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b37e87c7948190901d98f34e3987eb completed March 13, 2026, 3:03 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b37f13d5e881908eaa05b11e493e8b completed March 13, 2026, 3:05 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b37f703ff081908a9aa3588da52d76 completed March 13, 2026, 3:07 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:19 p.m.