Triple

T3724778
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Signetics E81722 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Mark Weissenstern
Mark Weissenstern is an electronics industry figure best known as a founder of the semiconductor company Signetics.
 E381581 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: Mark Weissenstern | Statement: [Signetics, foundedBy, Mark Weissenstern]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Mark Weissenstern
Context triple: [Signetics, foundedBy, Mark Weissenstern]
  • A. Felix Krull
    Felix Krull is the charming, quick-witted con artist and social climber who narrates Thomas Mann’s picaresque novel "The Confessions of Felix Krull."
  • B. Christian Weiss
    Christian Weiss is a relatively obscure individual whose specific public notability is not clearly established from the given information.
  • C. Charles Storrs
    Charles Storrs was a benefactor and early supporter of the institution that became the University of Connecticut, for whom the town of Storrs is named.
  • D. Zora Dirnbach
    Zora Dirnbach was a Croatian journalist, writer, and Holocaust survivor known for her work in radio, literature, and public discourse on Jewish identity and history.
  • E. Hugo Carmody
    Hugo Carmody is a charming, somewhat hapless young gentleman from P. G. Wodehouse’s Blandings Castle stories, often embroiled in romantic entanglements and comic misadventures.
  • 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: Mark Weissenstern
Triple: [Signetics, foundedBy, Mark Weissenstern]
Generated description
Mark Weissenstern is an electronics industry figure best known as a founder of the semiconductor company Signetics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Mark Weissenstern
Target entity description: Mark Weissenstern is an electronics industry figure best known as a founder of the semiconductor company Signetics.
  • A. Felix Krull
    Felix Krull is the charming, quick-witted con artist and social climber who narrates Thomas Mann’s picaresque novel "The Confessions of Felix Krull."
  • B. Christian Weiss
    Christian Weiss is a relatively obscure individual whose specific public notability is not clearly established from the given information.
  • C. Charles Storrs
    Charles Storrs was a benefactor and early supporter of the institution that became the University of Connecticut, for whom the town of Storrs is named.
  • D. Zora Dirnbach
    Zora Dirnbach was a Croatian journalist, writer, and Holocaust survivor known for her work in radio, literature, and public discourse on Jewish identity and history.
  • E. Hugo Carmody
    Hugo Carmody is a charming, somewhat hapless young gentleman from P. G. Wodehouse’s Blandings Castle stories, often embroiled in romantic entanglements and comic misadventures.
  • 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_69ad8b1b7ef081908d2d381bbf54985a completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adcaf54af881908bd8d520595de061 completed March 8, 2026, 7:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4ce1e303881909efc1c6735d6c12e completed March 14, 2026, 2:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4cf1840bc81908a85642430ab5339 completed March 14, 2026, 2:59 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4cf92e9c48190a3d87ba1f90548ec completed March 14, 2026, 3:01 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:34 p.m.