Triple
T6371437
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | The Weather Channel |
E143353
|
entity |
| Predicate | founder |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Frank Batten
Frank Batten was an American media executive and philanthropist best known for creating The Weather Channel and leading Landmark Communications.
|
E588885
|
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: Frank Batten | Statement: [The Weather Channel, founder, Frank Batten]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frank Batten Context triple: [The Weather Channel, founder, Frank Batten]
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A.
Peter Arrell Browne Widener
Peter Arrell Browne Widener was a prominent American businessman and art collector who amassed a fortune in streetcar and meatpacking enterprises and became one of the wealthiest men of the Gilded Age.
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B.
Reuben H. Fleet
Reuben H. Fleet was an American aviation pioneer and industrialist who founded the aircraft manufacturing company that later became Convair.
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C.
J. Walter Kennedy
J. Walter Kennedy was a prominent American sports executive best known for serving as commissioner of the NBA during a period of significant expansion and increased popularity in the 1960s and early 1970s.
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D.
J. Willard Marriott
J. Willard Marriott was an American entrepreneur best known as the founder of Marriott Corporation, which grew from a small root beer stand into one of the world’s largest hotel and hospitality companies.
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E.
Albert J. Weatherhead III
Albert J. Weatherhead III was an American industrialist, philanthropist, and business leader known for his support of higher education and the arts.
- 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: Frank Batten Triple: [The Weather Channel, founder, Frank Batten]
Generated description
Frank Batten was an American media executive and philanthropist best known for creating The Weather Channel and leading Landmark Communications.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Frank Batten Target entity description: Frank Batten was an American media executive and philanthropist best known for creating The Weather Channel and leading Landmark Communications.
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A.
Peter Arrell Browne Widener
Peter Arrell Browne Widener was a prominent American businessman and art collector who amassed a fortune in streetcar and meatpacking enterprises and became one of the wealthiest men of the Gilded Age.
-
B.
Reuben H. Fleet
Reuben H. Fleet was an American aviation pioneer and industrialist who founded the aircraft manufacturing company that later became Convair.
-
C.
J. Walter Kennedy
J. Walter Kennedy was a prominent American sports executive best known for serving as commissioner of the NBA during a period of significant expansion and increased popularity in the 1960s and early 1970s.
-
D.
J. Willard Marriott
J. Willard Marriott was an American entrepreneur best known as the founder of Marriott Corporation, which grew from a small root beer stand into one of the world’s largest hotel and hospitality companies.
-
E.
Albert J. Weatherhead III
Albert J. Weatherhead III was an American industrialist, philanthropist, and business leader known for his support of higher education and the arts.
- 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_69c008d8c61081908bcaf61510d881ed |
completed | March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c068289eac8190a17affed87340c1f |
completed | March 22, 2026, 10:07 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c62d9203988190a535b4f06f478292 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 7:11 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69c6306eca2c81909ee4930c0dc62072 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 7:23 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69c630eb15cc8190b55c6cf60c5690d2 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 7:25 a.m. |
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:33 p.m.