Triple
T5765603
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | J.W. Foster and Sons |
E127205
|
entity |
| Predicate | foundedBy |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Joseph William Foster
Joseph William Foster was a pioneering British shoemaker and entrepreneur best known for creating some of the earliest spiked running shoes and founding the company that would evolve into the sportswear brand Reebok.
|
E558272
|
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: Joseph William Foster | Statement: [J.W. Foster and Sons, foundedBy, Joseph William Foster]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joseph William Foster Context triple: [J.W. Foster and Sons, foundedBy, Joseph William Foster]
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A.
George Charles Foster
George Charles Foster, better known as Rube Foster, was a pioneering African American baseball pitcher, manager, and executive often called the "Father of Black Baseball" for founding and leading the Negro National League.
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B.
James Foster
James Foster is an economist known for his influential work on poverty measurement and social welfare, including co-developing the widely used Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) poverty indices.
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C.
Andrew Foster
Andrew Foster is a fictional character appearing in the Overdrive series.
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D.
William Wasbrough Foster
William Wasbrough Foster was a Canadian mountaineer, military officer, and civic leader known for his prominent role in early 20th-century Canadian alpinism and public service.
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E.
Edward Douglas Fawcett
Edward Douglas Fawcett was a British philosopher, novelist, and mountaineer known for his works on idealist philosophy and speculative fiction.
- 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: Joseph William Foster Triple: [J.W. Foster and Sons, foundedBy, Joseph William Foster]
Generated description
Joseph William Foster was a pioneering British shoemaker and entrepreneur best known for creating some of the earliest spiked running shoes and founding the company that would evolve into the sportswear brand Reebok.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joseph William Foster Target entity description: Joseph William Foster was a pioneering British shoemaker and entrepreneur best known for creating some of the earliest spiked running shoes and founding the company that would evolve into the sportswear brand Reebok.
-
A.
George Charles Foster
George Charles Foster, better known as Rube Foster, was a pioneering African American baseball pitcher, manager, and executive often called the "Father of Black Baseball" for founding and leading the Negro National League.
-
B.
James Foster
James Foster is an economist known for his influential work on poverty measurement and social welfare, including co-developing the widely used Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) poverty indices.
-
C.
Andrew Foster
Andrew Foster is a fictional character appearing in the Overdrive series.
-
D.
William Wasbrough Foster
William Wasbrough Foster was a Canadian mountaineer, military officer, and civic leader known for his prominent role in early 20th-century Canadian alpinism and public service.
-
E.
Edward Douglas Fawcett
Edward Douglas Fawcett was a British philosopher, novelist, and mountaineer known for his works on idealist philosophy and speculative fiction.
- 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_69c00834f6308190851b0abeddd8ed7e |
completed | March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c0296fa3e881909359bc39892ccc18 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 5:39 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c0e349d0088190be108aa266d3af82 |
completed | March 23, 2026, 6:52 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69c0eb675f308190a43ddef8438eee25 |
completed | March 23, 2026, 7:27 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69c0ebdd3f008190905807a7be36f8ad |
completed | March 23, 2026, 7:29 a.m. |
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:49 p.m.