Triple
T3809418
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Marc Randolph |
E93093
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entity |
| Predicate | notableWork |
P4
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FINISHED |
| Object |
That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea
"That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea" is a memoir by Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph that recounts the company’s early days and the entrepreneurial lessons learned in building the streaming giant.
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E390425
|
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: That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea | Statement: [Marc Randolph, notableWork, That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea Context triple: [Marc Randolph, notableWork, That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea]
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A.
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
"No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention" is a business and leadership book that examines Netflix’s unconventional corporate culture and management principles that drive its innovation and adaptability.
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B.
Zero to One
"Zero to One" is a bestselling business and startup book by entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel that explores how to build innovative companies that create entirely new markets rather than competing in existing ones.
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C.
Netscape Time: The Making of the Billion-Dollar Start-Up That Took on Microsoft
"Netscape Time: The Making of the Billion-Dollar Start-Up That Took on Microsoft" is a business and technology memoir chronicling the rise of Netscape and its battle with Microsoft during the early days of the commercial internet.
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D.
The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company—and Revolutionized an Industry
"The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company—and Revolutionized an Industry" is the subtitle of Marc Benioff’s business book "Behind the Cloud," which chronicles the creation and disruptive growth of Salesforce.com and the broader impact of cloud computing on the software industry.
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E.
The Accidental Billionaires
The Accidental Billionaires is a nonfiction book by Ben Mezrich that chronicles the controversial founding of Facebook and the personal and legal conflicts among its early creators.
- 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: That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea Triple: [Marc Randolph, notableWork, That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea]
Generated description
"That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea" is a memoir by Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph that recounts the company’s early days and the entrepreneurial lessons learned in building the streaming giant.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea Target entity description: "That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix and the Amazing Life of an Idea" is a memoir by Netflix co-founder Marc Randolph that recounts the company’s early days and the entrepreneurial lessons learned in building the streaming giant.
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A.
No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention
"No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention" is a business and leadership book that examines Netflix’s unconventional corporate culture and management principles that drive its innovation and adaptability.
-
B.
Zero to One
"Zero to One" is a bestselling business and startup book by entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel that explores how to build innovative companies that create entirely new markets rather than competing in existing ones.
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C.
Netscape Time: The Making of the Billion-Dollar Start-Up That Took on Microsoft
"Netscape Time: The Making of the Billion-Dollar Start-Up That Took on Microsoft" is a business and technology memoir chronicling the rise of Netscape and its battle with Microsoft during the early days of the commercial internet.
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D.
The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company—and Revolutionized an Industry
"The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company—and Revolutionized an Industry" is the subtitle of Marc Benioff’s business book "Behind the Cloud," which chronicles the creation and disruptive growth of Salesforce.com and the broader impact of cloud computing on the software industry.
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E.
The Accidental Billionaires
The Accidental Billionaires is a nonfiction book by Ben Mezrich that chronicles the controversial founding of Facebook and the personal and legal conflicts among its early creators.
- 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_69aed96a60088190ab1df8390fffc935 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 2:30 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69aee80c7fc48190b5c2400918bba5c2 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 3:32 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b4fb33db9c81908b462ee80aaaad34 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 6:07 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b4fc08d65081908953482b10fa5611 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 6:11 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b4fc7d8cf081909c4447818b5363c5 |
completed | March 14, 2026, 6:13 a.m. |
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:16 p.m.