Triple

T3900747
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject OCLC E90481 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Fred Kilgour
Fred Kilgour was an American librarian and information scientist best known for pioneering online library cataloging and founding the OCLC cooperative.
E397629 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: Fred Kilgour | Statement: [OCLC, foundedBy, Fred Kilgour]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fred Kilgour
Context triple: [OCLC, foundedBy, Fred Kilgour]
  • A. Donald Meek
    Donald Meek was a Scottish-born American character actor known for his distinctive, mild-mannered roles in numerous Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
  • B. Andrew Macdonald
    Andrew Macdonald is a British film producer best known for his collaborations with director Danny Boyle on acclaimed films such as "Trainspotting" and "28 Days Later."
  • C. Charlie Graham
    Charlie Graham is the troubled young daughter whose eerie behavior and tragic fate drive much of the psychological and supernatural horror in the film "Hereditary."
  • D. John Anglin
    John Anglin was a real-life American bank robber best known as one of the three inmates who carried out the infamous 1962 escape from Alcatraz prison.
  • E. Bruce McCulloch
    Bruce McCulloch is a Canadian actor, writer, and comedian best known as one of the core members of the sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall.
  • 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: Fred Kilgour
Triple: [OCLC, foundedBy, Fred Kilgour]
Generated description
Fred Kilgour was an American librarian and information scientist best known for pioneering online library cataloging and founding the OCLC cooperative.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fred Kilgour
Target entity description: Fred Kilgour was an American librarian and information scientist best known for pioneering online library cataloging and founding the OCLC cooperative.
  • A. Donald Meek
    Donald Meek was a Scottish-born American character actor known for his distinctive, mild-mannered roles in numerous Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
  • B. Andrew Macdonald
    Andrew Macdonald is a British film producer best known for his collaborations with director Danny Boyle on acclaimed films such as "Trainspotting" and "28 Days Later."
  • C. Charlie Graham
    Charlie Graham is the troubled young daughter whose eerie behavior and tragic fate drive much of the psychological and supernatural horror in the film "Hereditary."
  • D. John Anglin
    John Anglin was a real-life American bank robber best known as one of the three inmates who carried out the infamous 1962 escape from Alcatraz prison.
  • E. Bruce McCulloch
    Bruce McCulloch is a Canadian actor, writer, and comedian best known as one of the core members of the sketch comedy troupe The Kids in the Hall.
  • 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_69aed95d315881908cbf1bf4a7215fbf completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aeecf2f230819099abc109a0b7d916 completed March 9, 2026, 3:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b51ca477a081908b7e6d2701833413 completed March 14, 2026, 8:30 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b51dc74d6c819082d1cf4c8a5d3aba completed March 14, 2026, 8:35 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b51e27ce588190a9aa93f2fd063fad completed March 14, 2026, 8:36 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:21 p.m.