Triple

T4613999
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ask Media Group E100823 entity
Predicate operatesWebsite P5884 FINISHED
Object About.com (historical association via IAC/Ask properties, check current status)
About.com was a popular online resource network offering expert-written guides and articles on a wide range of topics, which has since been rebranded and split into vertical sites such as Dotdash brands.
 E455738 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: About.com (historical association via IAC/Ask properties, check current status) | Statement: [Ask Media Group, operatesWebsite, About.com (historical association via IAC/Ask properties, check current status)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: About.com (historical association via IAC/Ask properties, check current status)
Context triple: [Ask Media Group, operatesWebsite, About.com (historical association via IAC/Ask properties, check current status)]
  • A. IAC
    IAC is a U.S.-based media and internet holding company that owns and operates a wide portfolio of online brands and digital services.
  • B. AboutUs.org
    AboutUs.org is a collaboratively edited online directory and wiki-style resource that documents websites, organizations, and businesses across the internet.
  • C. About Today
    "About Today" is a melancholic, slow-building song by indie rock band The National, known for its emotional lyrics and atmospheric arrangement.
  • D. Alexa Internet
    Alexa Internet was a web traffic analysis and ranking company best known for providing website popularity metrics and analytics services before its shutdown in 2022.
  • E. Altaba Inc.
    Altaba Inc. was a publicly traded investment company formed from the remnants of Yahoo! Inc. after the sale of its core internet business to Verizon, primarily holding stakes in Alibaba Group and Yahoo! Japan.
  • 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: About.com (historical association via IAC/Ask properties, check current status)
Triple: [Ask Media Group, operatesWebsite, About.com (historical association via IAC/Ask properties, check current status)]
Generated description
About.com was a popular online resource network offering expert-written guides and articles on a wide range of topics, which has since been rebranded and split into vertical sites such as Dotdash brands.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: About.com (historical association via IAC/Ask properties, check current status)
Target entity description: About.com was a popular online resource network offering expert-written guides and articles on a wide range of topics, which has since been rebranded and split into vertical sites such as Dotdash brands.
  • A. IAC
    IAC is a U.S.-based media and internet holding company that owns and operates a wide portfolio of online brands and digital services.
  • B. AboutUs.org
    AboutUs.org is a collaboratively edited online directory and wiki-style resource that documents websites, organizations, and businesses across the internet.
  • C. About Today
    "About Today" is a melancholic, slow-building song by indie rock band The National, known for its emotional lyrics and atmospheric arrangement.
  • D. Alexa Internet
    Alexa Internet was a web traffic analysis and ranking company best known for providing website popularity metrics and analytics services before its shutdown in 2022.
  • E. Altaba Inc.
    Altaba Inc. was a publicly traded investment company formed from the remnants of Yahoo! Inc. after the sale of its core internet business to Verizon, primarily holding stakes in Alibaba Group and Yahoo! Japan.
  • 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_69bd43cf363c819087fd5ab441b4a3f4 completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd59c2678c8190ab8f9420e866521d completed March 20, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bdfa895b7481909e54cfa56a54c8dc completed March 21, 2026, 1:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bdfb83b5d08190b2d8502e763a0841 completed March 21, 2026, 1:59 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bdfc105e6c8190b21e3c8e7076e9ff completed March 21, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:12 p.m.