Triple

T6057971
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Guy L. Steele Jr. E134961 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object Thinking Machines Corporation
Thinking Machines Corporation was a pioneering American supercomputer company best known for developing massively parallel processing systems in the 1980s and early 1990s.
 E567336 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: Thinking Machines Corporation | Statement: [Guy L. Steele Jr., employer, Thinking Machines Corporation]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thinking Machines Corporation
Context triple: [Guy L. Steele Jr., employer, Thinking Machines Corporation]
  • A. Oberon Microsystems
    Oberon Microsystems is a Swiss software company known for its work on the Oberon family of languages and systems, including the development of the Component Pascal programming language.
  • B. Apollo Computer
    Apollo Computer was an American computer company best known for pioneering high-performance Domain workstation systems in the 1980s.
  • C. Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
    Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation is a pioneering American company in computer graphics and simulation technology, known for its advanced visual systems and contributions to virtual reality and flight simulation.
  • D. Kurzweil Computer Products, Inc.
    Kurzweil Computer Products, Inc. was an early technology company best known for pioneering commercial optical character recognition (OCR) systems and reading machines for the blind.
  • E. Busicom
    Busicom was a Japanese calculator and electronics company best known for commissioning the Intel 4004, the first commercial microprocessor.
  • 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: Thinking Machines Corporation
Triple: [Guy L. Steele Jr., employer, Thinking Machines Corporation]
Generated description
Thinking Machines Corporation was a pioneering American supercomputer company best known for developing massively parallel processing systems in the 1980s and early 1990s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Thinking Machines Corporation
Target entity description: Thinking Machines Corporation was a pioneering American supercomputer company best known for developing massively parallel processing systems in the 1980s and early 1990s.
  • A. Oberon Microsystems
    Oberon Microsystems is a Swiss software company known for its work on the Oberon family of languages and systems, including the development of the Component Pascal programming language.
  • B. Apollo Computer
    Apollo Computer was an American computer company best known for pioneering high-performance Domain workstation systems in the 1980s.
  • C. Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation
    Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation is a pioneering American company in computer graphics and simulation technology, known for its advanced visual systems and contributions to virtual reality and flight simulation.
  • D. Kurzweil Computer Products, Inc.
    Kurzweil Computer Products, Inc. was an early technology company best known for pioneering commercial optical character recognition (OCR) systems and reading machines for the blind.
  • E. Busicom
    Busicom was a Japanese calculator and electronics company best known for commissioning the Intel 4004, the first commercial microprocessor.
  • 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_69c00877b6d4819096b0e163728b73a3 completed March 22, 2026, 3:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c0570d00e88190b2d8d596e40378d9 completed March 22, 2026, 8:54 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c11d0e06288190b4389b43825d5929 completed March 23, 2026, 10:59 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c11ec11864819084c31d98133ca53a completed March 23, 2026, 11:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c11f29842881909acf88a1fa896354 completed March 23, 2026, 11:08 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:09 p.m.