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]
  • 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
  • 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.