Triple

T5167436
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Rackable Systems E116592 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Thomas Barton
Thomas Barton is a technology entrepreneur best known as the founder of Rackable Systems, a company specializing in high-density server and data center solutions.
E500299 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: Thomas Barton | Statement: [Rackable Systems, foundedBy, Thomas Barton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Barton
Context triple: [Rackable Systems, foundedBy, Thomas Barton]
  • A. George Deakin
    George Deakin is an individual known for being a defendant in the 1979 English criminal case R v Thorpe and Others.
  • B. Alan Cunningham
    Alan Cunningham was a British Army general best known for leading Eighth Army forces in the North African campaign during World War II.
  • C. Richard Bancroft
    Richard Bancroft was an influential English churchman and Archbishop of Canterbury who played a key role in overseeing the production of the King James Bible.
  • D. William Fox
    William Fox was a pioneering American film producer and studio executive who founded the movie company that later became 20th Century Fox.
  • E. James Ross
    James Ross was a 19th-century landowner and businessman after whom the town of Ross, California, is named.
  • 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: Thomas Barton
Triple: [Rackable Systems, foundedBy, Thomas Barton]
Generated description
Thomas Barton is a technology entrepreneur best known as the founder of Rackable Systems, a company specializing in high-density server and data center solutions.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Barton
Target entity description: Thomas Barton is a technology entrepreneur best known as the founder of Rackable Systems, a company specializing in high-density server and data center solutions.
  • A. George Deakin
    George Deakin is an individual known for being a defendant in the 1979 English criminal case R v Thorpe and Others.
  • B. Alan Cunningham
    Alan Cunningham was a British Army general best known for leading Eighth Army forces in the North African campaign during World War II.
  • C. Richard Bancroft
    Richard Bancroft was an influential English churchman and Archbishop of Canterbury who played a key role in overseeing the production of the King James Bible.
  • D. William Fox
    William Fox was a pioneering American film producer and studio executive who founded the movie company that later became 20th Century Fox.
  • E. James Ross
    James Ross was a 19th-century landowner and businessman after whom the town of Ross, California, is named.
  • 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_69bd445ff97c81909a2615cc56235470 completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd794b87508190be3b82726ef4b37c completed March 20, 2026, 4:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bed93b85188190927d448e09a46425 completed March 21, 2026, 5:45 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bedbd301088190908d050425c6cda7 completed March 21, 2026, 5:56 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bedc65fcdc8190bc99c0d049e4dd94 completed March 21, 2026, 5:59 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:45 p.m.