Triple

T5277934
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject VMware E119418 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Edouard Bugnion
Edouard Bugnion is a computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and early chief architect of VMware, a pioneering company in virtualization technology.
E514770 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: Edouard Bugnion | Statement: [VMware, foundedBy, Edouard Bugnion]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edouard Bugnion
Context triple: [VMware, foundedBy, Edouard Bugnion]
  • A. Léon Vaudoyer
    Léon Vaudoyer was a 19th-century French architect known for his influential role in historicist architecture and for designing notable Parisian buildings such as the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers.
  • B. Alfred Burgener
    Alfred Burgener was a notable Swiss mountain guide and alpinist active in the late 19th century, recognized for pioneering ascents in the Alps.
  • C. Jacques Mornard
    Jacques Mornard was an alias used by Ramón Mercader, the Spanish communist who assassinated Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Mexico in 1940.
  • D. Adolphe Appia
    Adolphe Appia was a pioneering Swiss stage designer and theorist whose innovative ideas on lighting and three-dimensional sets revolutionized modern theatrical production.
  • E. Rodolphe Salis
    Rodolphe Salis was a French artist, publican, and impresario best known as the flamboyant founder and host of the influential 19th-century Montmartre cabaret Le Chat Noir.
  • 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: Edouard Bugnion
Triple: [VMware, foundedBy, Edouard Bugnion]
Generated description
Edouard Bugnion is a computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and early chief architect of VMware, a pioneering company in virtualization technology.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edouard Bugnion
Target entity description: Edouard Bugnion is a computer scientist and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and early chief architect of VMware, a pioneering company in virtualization technology.
  • A. Léon Vaudoyer
    Léon Vaudoyer was a 19th-century French architect known for his influential role in historicist architecture and for designing notable Parisian buildings such as the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers.
  • B. Alfred Burgener
    Alfred Burgener was a notable Swiss mountain guide and alpinist active in the late 19th century, recognized for pioneering ascents in the Alps.
  • C. Jacques Mornard
    Jacques Mornard was an alias used by Ramón Mercader, the Spanish communist who assassinated Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Mexico in 1940.
  • D. Adolphe Appia
    Adolphe Appia was a pioneering Swiss stage designer and theorist whose innovative ideas on lighting and three-dimensional sets revolutionized modern theatrical production.
  • E. Rodolphe Salis
    Rodolphe Salis was a French artist, publican, and impresario best known as the flamboyant founder and host of the influential 19th-century Montmartre cabaret Le Chat Noir.
  • 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_69bd446d05a8819092ad333a3f9c8d5c completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd8474e7fc8190ab5dd84f665ae6a4 completed March 20, 2026, 5:31 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf290430a08190bf4f00a558d5a1fa completed March 21, 2026, 11:25 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf29886f00819096639d721a4a5d80 completed March 21, 2026, 11:28 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf29e25d80819094f03f02234c357b completed March 21, 2026, 11:29 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:51 p.m.