Triple

T5924526
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Patrick J. McGovern E131773 entity
Predicate fullName P16 FINISHED
Object Patrick Joseph McGovern Jr.
Patrick Joseph McGovern Jr. was an American businessman and philanthropist best known as the founder and longtime chairman of International Data Group (IDG), a global technology media, data, and marketing services company.
 E554903 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: Patrick Joseph McGovern Jr. | Statement: [Patrick J. McGovern, fullName, Patrick Joseph McGovern Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Patrick Joseph McGovern Jr.
Context triple: [Patrick J. McGovern, fullName, Patrick Joseph McGovern Jr.]
  • A. Joseph W. Martin Jr.
    Joseph W. Martin Jr. was an American Republican politician from Massachusetts who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and was a prominent congressional leader in the mid-20th century.
  • B. Harold Agnew
    Harold Agnew was an American physicist and weapons designer best known for his role in the Manhattan Project and later as director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
  • C. Tom O’Brien
    Tom O’Brien is an American football coach best known for revitalizing Boston College’s football program in the late 1990s and early 2000s before later leading NC State.
  • D. Edward L. McDonnell
    Edward L. McDonnell is a film producer known for his work on major Hollywood thrillers, including the critically acclaimed crime drama "Sicario."
  • E. John A. Anderson
    John A. Anderson was a seismologist and instrument designer known for co-developing the Wood–Anderson torsion seismometer, an early and influential instrument for measuring earthquake ground motion.
  • 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: Patrick Joseph McGovern Jr.
Triple: [Patrick J. McGovern, fullName, Patrick Joseph McGovern Jr.]
Generated description
Patrick Joseph McGovern Jr. was an American businessman and philanthropist best known as the founder and longtime chairman of International Data Group (IDG), a global technology media, data, and marketing services company.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Patrick Joseph McGovern Jr.
Target entity description: Patrick Joseph McGovern Jr. was an American businessman and philanthropist best known as the founder and longtime chairman of International Data Group (IDG), a global technology media, data, and marketing services company.
  • A. Joseph W. Martin Jr.
    Joseph W. Martin Jr. was an American Republican politician from Massachusetts who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and was a prominent congressional leader in the mid-20th century.
  • B. Harold Agnew
    Harold Agnew was an American physicist and weapons designer best known for his role in the Manhattan Project and later as director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
  • C. Tom O’Brien
    Tom O’Brien is an American football coach best known for revitalizing Boston College’s football program in the late 1990s and early 2000s before later leading NC State.
  • D. Edward L. McDonnell
    Edward L. McDonnell is a film producer known for his work on major Hollywood thrillers, including the critically acclaimed crime drama "Sicario."
  • E. John A. Anderson
    John A. Anderson was a seismologist and instrument designer known for co-developing the Wood–Anderson torsion seismometer, an early and influential instrument for measuring earthquake ground motion.
  • 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_69c0085a1ed08190a7e9a8b6323fd680 completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c03852806c81908ba726c16adf3358 completed March 22, 2026, 6:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c0c0483e3481908e50f8b34b11a878 completed March 23, 2026, 4:23 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c0c1442eb48190bc67c77764116b17 completed March 23, 2026, 4:27 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c0c1c31b108190af16c66f6e8a4c25 completed March 23, 2026, 4:29 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4 p.m.