Triple

T6180987
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Y Combinator E137940 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Trevor Blackwell
Trevor Blackwell is a Canadian engineer, entrepreneur, and roboticist best known as a co-founder of the startup accelerator Y Combinator and for his work in humanoid and self-balancing robots.
E576518 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: Trevor Blackwell | Statement: [Y Combinator, foundedBy, Trevor Blackwell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Trevor Blackwell
Context triple: [Y Combinator, foundedBy, Trevor Blackwell]
  • A. Trevor Walters
    Trevor Walters is a British lovers rock reggae singer known for his smooth vocal style and popular 1980s covers of soul and pop songs.
  • B. Trevor Albert
    Trevor Albert is a film producer best known for his work on the classic comedy "Groundhog Day."
  • C. Trevor Garfield
    Trevor Garfield is the troubled high school teacher protagonist of the 1997 crime drama film "One Eight Seven," portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson.
  • D. Trevor McDonald
    Trevor McDonald is a renowned British newsreader and journalist, best known as one of the most prominent and pioneering Black broadcasters on UK television.
  • E. Trevor Johnston
    Trevor Johnston is an Australian linguist renowned for his pioneering research and documentation of Auslan, the sign language of the Australian Deaf community.
  • 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: Trevor Blackwell
Triple: [Y Combinator, foundedBy, Trevor Blackwell]
Generated description
Trevor Blackwell is a Canadian engineer, entrepreneur, and roboticist best known as a co-founder of the startup accelerator Y Combinator and for his work in humanoid and self-balancing robots.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Trevor Blackwell
Target entity description: Trevor Blackwell is a Canadian engineer, entrepreneur, and roboticist best known as a co-founder of the startup accelerator Y Combinator and for his work in humanoid and self-balancing robots.
  • A. Trevor Walters
    Trevor Walters is a British lovers rock reggae singer known for his smooth vocal style and popular 1980s covers of soul and pop songs.
  • B. Trevor Albert
    Trevor Albert is a film producer best known for his work on the classic comedy "Groundhog Day."
  • C. Trevor Garfield
    Trevor Garfield is the troubled high school teacher protagonist of the 1997 crime drama film "One Eight Seven," portrayed by Samuel L. Jackson.
  • D. Trevor McDonald
    Trevor McDonald is a renowned British newsreader and journalist, best known as one of the most prominent and pioneering Black broadcasters on UK television.
  • E. Trevor Johnston
    Trevor Johnston is an Australian linguist renowned for his pioneering research and documentation of Auslan, the sign language of the Australian Deaf community.
  • 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_69c008a80f748190ba3d07ffc81acb29 completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c060fdf7ac8190a0e887907ec9a922 completed March 22, 2026, 9:37 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c16ef823348190a8ed68141857e28c completed March 23, 2026, 4:48 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c1be0624088190b20fdfa389ebf092 completed March 23, 2026, 10:26 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c1bec4844081908baa5abbc4cb3221 completed March 23, 2026, 10:29 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:18 p.m.