Triple

T638436
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Fairchild Semiconductor E16677 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Sherman Fairchild
Sherman Fairchild was an American industrialist and inventor who founded numerous technology companies and played a pivotal role in the early development of the semiconductor and aerospace industries.
E173322 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: Sherman Fairchild | Statement: [Fairchild Semiconductor, foundedBy, Sherman Fairchild]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sherman Fairchild
Context triple: [Fairchild Semiconductor, foundedBy, Sherman Fairchild]
  • A. Owen D. Young
    Owen D. Young was an American industrialist, lawyer, and businessman best known for founding RCA and for his influential role in international economic policy during the interwar period.
  • B. Roger Sherman Loomis
    Roger Sherman Loomis was an American medievalist and literary scholar best known for his influential research on Arthurian legend and its Celtic origins.
  • C. Cyrus H. K. Curtis
    Cyrus H. K. Curtis was an influential American publisher and philanthropist best known for building a magazine empire that included titles like The Saturday Evening Post and Ladies' Home Journal.
  • D. Cecil H. Green
    Cecil H. Green was a British-born American geophysicist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist best known as a co-founder of Texas Instruments and a major benefactor of educational and research institutions.
  • E. Milton Van Dyke
    Milton Van Dyke was an influential American fluid dynamicist and author known for his classic works on aerodynamics and fluid mechanics, including the widely used reference "An Album of Fluid 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: Sherman Fairchild
Triple: [Fairchild Semiconductor, foundedBy, Sherman Fairchild]
Generated description
Sherman Fairchild was an American industrialist and inventor who founded numerous technology companies and played a pivotal role in the early development of the semiconductor and aerospace industries.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sherman Fairchild
Target entity description: Sherman Fairchild was an American industrialist and inventor who founded numerous technology companies and played a pivotal role in the early development of the semiconductor and aerospace industries.
  • A. Owen D. Young
    Owen D. Young was an American industrialist, lawyer, and businessman best known for founding RCA and for his influential role in international economic policy during the interwar period.
  • B. Roger Sherman Loomis
    Roger Sherman Loomis was an American medievalist and literary scholar best known for his influential research on Arthurian legend and its Celtic origins.
  • C. Cyrus H. K. Curtis
    Cyrus H. K. Curtis was an influential American publisher and philanthropist best known for building a magazine empire that included titles like The Saturday Evening Post and Ladies' Home Journal.
  • D. Cecil H. Green
    Cecil H. Green was a British-born American geophysicist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist best known as a co-founder of Texas Instruments and a major benefactor of educational and research institutions.
  • E. Milton Van Dyke
    Milton Van Dyke was an influential American fluid dynamicist and author known for his classic works on aerodynamics and fluid mechanics, including the widely used reference "An Album of Fluid 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_69a4936be1c88190af56540324b57da7 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49ee95b188190a67b12e1899bcdda completed March 1, 2026, 8:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad22fb5b30819086622f751a065b7a completed March 8, 2026, 7:19 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad2580f68881909a0fa55f3167fb9c completed March 8, 2026, 7:30 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad26d7f81881908cdb25bf098e0f8e completed March 8, 2026, 7:35 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:35 p.m.