Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Don Valentine E95932 entity
Predicate founded P104 FINISHED
Object Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital is a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for early investments in companies like Apple, Google, and Airbnb.
E424354 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: Sequoia Capital | Statement: [Don Valentine, founded, Sequoia Capital]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sequoia Capital
Context triple: [Don Valentine, founded, Sequoia Capital]
  • A. Andreessen Horowitz
    Andreessen Horowitz is a prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for backing leading technology startups across software, fintech, crypto, and other innovation-driven sectors.
  • B. Khosla Ventures
    Khosla Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm known for investing in early-stage, high-risk technology and clean energy startups.
  • C. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
    Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is a prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for early investments in major technology companies such as Google and Amazon.
  • D. Thiel Capital
    Thiel Capital is an investment firm and family office managing the personal capital and strategic ventures of billionaire entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel.
  • E. Kapor Capital
    Kapor Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing in technology-driven startups that aim to close gaps in access, opportunity, and outcomes for underserved communities.
  • 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: Sequoia Capital
Triple: [Don Valentine, founded, Sequoia Capital]
Generated description
Sequoia Capital is a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for early investments in companies like Apple, Google, and Airbnb.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sequoia Capital
Target entity description: Sequoia Capital is a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for early investments in companies like Apple, Google, and Airbnb.
  • A. Andreessen Horowitz
    Andreessen Horowitz is a prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for backing leading technology startups across software, fintech, crypto, and other innovation-driven sectors.
  • B. Khosla Ventures
    Khosla Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm known for investing in early-stage, high-risk technology and clean energy startups.
  • C. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
    Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is a prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm known for early investments in major technology companies such as Google and Amazon.
  • D. Thiel Capital
    Thiel Capital is an investment firm and family office managing the personal capital and strategic ventures of billionaire entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel.
  • E. Kapor Capital
    Kapor Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on investing in technology-driven startups that aim to close gaps in access, opportunity, and outcomes for underserved communities.
  • 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_69b3453f759881909b91f01a1e82c036 completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b34ebe6fbc8190a89269b478b3f435 completed March 12, 2026, 11:39 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b5a887703c81909a40f23f83154b8c completed March 14, 2026, 6:27 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b5a8ffd4508190b33117d3fc963b3d completed March 14, 2026, 6:29 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5a9754d5c8190b1ab724a4758c22a completed March 14, 2026, 6:31 p.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:06 p.m.