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]
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.