Triple

T590383
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Traitorous Eight E17253 entity
Predicate member P10 FINISHED
Object Julius Blank
Julius Blank was an engineer and entrepreneur best known as one of the “Traitorous Eight” who left Shockley Semiconductor to co-found Fairchild Semiconductor, helping launch Silicon Valley’s semiconductor industry.
 E118497 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: Julius Blank | Statement: [Traitorous Eight, member, Julius Blank]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Julius Blank
Context triple: [Traitorous Eight, member, Julius Blank]
  • A. Emil Sieg
    Emil Sieg was a German linguist and philologist known for his pioneering work on Tocharian and other Indo-European languages.
  • B. August Zaleski
    August Zaleski was a Polish diplomat and politician who served as President of Poland in exile after World War II.
  • C. Herman Saftleven
    Herman Saftleven was a 17th-century Dutch painter and draughtsman known for his detailed river landscapes and topographical views.
  • D. Charles Weissmann
    Charles Weissmann is a Swiss molecular biologist and biotechnology pioneer known for his groundbreaking work on interferons and prion diseases and for co-founding the biotech company Biogen.
  • E. Ludwig Crüwell
    Ludwig Crüwell was a German Wehrmacht general and Afrika Korps commander during World War II, noted for his leadership in the North African campaign.
  • 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: Julius Blank
Triple: [Traitorous Eight, member, Julius Blank]
Generated description
Julius Blank was an engineer and entrepreneur best known as one of the “Traitorous Eight” who left Shockley Semiconductor to co-found Fairchild Semiconductor, helping launch Silicon Valley’s semiconductor industry.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Julius Blank
Target entity description: Julius Blank was an engineer and entrepreneur best known as one of the “Traitorous Eight” who left Shockley Semiconductor to co-found Fairchild Semiconductor, helping launch Silicon Valley’s semiconductor industry.
  • A. Emil Sieg
    Emil Sieg was a German linguist and philologist known for his pioneering work on Tocharian and other Indo-European languages.
  • B. August Zaleski
    August Zaleski was a Polish diplomat and politician who served as President of Poland in exile after World War II.
  • C. Herman Saftleven
    Herman Saftleven was a 17th-century Dutch painter and draughtsman known for his detailed river landscapes and topographical views.
  • D. Charles Weissmann
    Charles Weissmann is a Swiss molecular biologist and biotechnology pioneer known for his groundbreaking work on interferons and prion diseases and for co-founding the biotech company Biogen.
  • E. Ludwig Crüwell
    Ludwig Crüwell was a German Wehrmacht general and Afrika Korps commander during World War II, noted for his leadership in the North African campaign.
  • 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_69a49379d09c8190ac7e00b24e2810b1 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49bb8ff0081909cd53d88930e2693 completed March 1, 2026, 8:04 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac2a03fc748190b14d8fe066902c97 completed March 7, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac2b45bea081908fb2e759aa3929e8 completed March 7, 2026, 1:42 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac2bc404a88190a1b5be6312d1e36b completed March 7, 2026, 1:44 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.