Triple

T3809418
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Marc Randolph E93093 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 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.
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]
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.