Triple

T3529855
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pepperdine University E74631 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object George Pepperdine
George Pepperdine was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known for founding the Western Auto Supply Company and later establishing Pepperdine University in Los Angeles.
E364400 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: George Pepperdine | Statement: [Pepperdine University, founder, George Pepperdine]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Pepperdine
Context triple: [Pepperdine University, founder, George Pepperdine]
  • A. John Jay Hall
    John Jay Hall is a prominent residence and dining hall building at Columbia University’s Morningside Heights campus in New York City.
  • B. Orvil E. Dryfoos
    Orvil E. Dryfoos was an American newspaper executive who briefly served as publisher of The New York Times in the early 1960s.
  • C. John Henry Boalt
    John Henry Boalt was a 19th-century American lawyer and judge in California whose name later became controversial due to his openly racist views, prompting modern efforts to remove his name from institutions.
  • D. Russell G. Cory
    Russell G. Cory was an architect known for his work on New York City's landmark Starrett-Lehigh Building, a prominent example of early 20th-century industrial modernism.
  • E. Theodore N. Lerner
    Theodore N. Lerner was an American real estate developer and principal owner of the Washington Nationals Major League Baseball team.
  • 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: George Pepperdine
Triple: [Pepperdine University, founder, George Pepperdine]
Generated description
George Pepperdine was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known for founding the Western Auto Supply Company and later establishing Pepperdine University in Los Angeles.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Pepperdine
Target entity description: George Pepperdine was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist best known for founding the Western Auto Supply Company and later establishing Pepperdine University in Los Angeles.
  • A. John Jay Hall
    John Jay Hall is a prominent residence and dining hall building at Columbia University’s Morningside Heights campus in New York City.
  • B. Orvil E. Dryfoos
    Orvil E. Dryfoos was an American newspaper executive who briefly served as publisher of The New York Times in the early 1960s.
  • C. John Henry Boalt
    John Henry Boalt was a 19th-century American lawyer and judge in California whose name later became controversial due to his openly racist views, prompting modern efforts to remove his name from institutions.
  • D. Russell G. Cory
    Russell G. Cory was an architect known for his work on New York City's landmark Starrett-Lehigh Building, a prominent example of early 20th-century industrial modernism.
  • E. Theodore N. Lerner
    Theodore N. Lerner was an American real estate developer and principal owner of the Washington Nationals Major League Baseball team.
  • 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_69ad85d1a3948190931fd1ea1f49717b completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adbc9764a881908aa8d25dc9adf59e completed March 8, 2026, 6:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b37e97536881908d5ed3dfe602c9e0 completed March 13, 2026, 3:03 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b37f232b8881908f7b4df89399d1d8 completed March 13, 2026, 3:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b37f8fea9481909eb82a06e6c71e98 completed March 13, 2026, 3:08 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:19 p.m.