Triple

T6879569
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Balsillie School of International Affairs E158756 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Jim Balsillie
Jim Balsillie is a Canadian businessman and philanthropist best known as the former co-CEO of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion and a major supporter of international affairs and public policy education.
E624982 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: Jim Balsillie | Statement: [Balsillie School of International Affairs, namedAfter, Jim Balsillie]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jim Balsillie
Context triple: [Balsillie School of International Affairs, namedAfter, Jim Balsillie]
  • A. Thomas Siebel
    Thomas Siebel is an American technology entrepreneur best known as the founder of Siebel Systems and later the cloud computing company C3.ai.
  • B. Jim Lewis
    Jim Lewis is a writer best known for his extensive work on Muppet-related projects, contributing scripts and material for various films, shows, and attractions.
  • C. Steve Ballmer
    Steve Ballmer is an American businessman and former Microsoft CEO known for his energetic leadership style and ownership of the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers.
  • D. Mark F. Demers
    Mark F. Demers is a mathematician known for his work in dynamical systems and ergodic theory, particularly in the study of chaotic billiards and related statistical properties.
  • E. Mike Lynch
    Mike Lynch is a collegiate athletics administrator best known for leading the athletic department at Babson College.
  • 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: Jim Balsillie
Triple: [Balsillie School of International Affairs, namedAfter, Jim Balsillie]
Generated description
Jim Balsillie is a Canadian businessman and philanthropist best known as the former co-CEO of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion and a major supporter of international affairs and public policy education.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jim Balsillie
Target entity description: Jim Balsillie is a Canadian businessman and philanthropist best known as the former co-CEO of BlackBerry maker Research In Motion and a major supporter of international affairs and public policy education.
  • A. Thomas Siebel
    Thomas Siebel is an American technology entrepreneur best known as the founder of Siebel Systems and later the cloud computing company C3.ai.
  • B. Jim Lewis
    Jim Lewis is a writer best known for his extensive work on Muppet-related projects, contributing scripts and material for various films, shows, and attractions.
  • C. Steve Ballmer
    Steve Ballmer is an American businessman and former Microsoft CEO known for his energetic leadership style and ownership of the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers.
  • D. Mark F. Demers
    Mark F. Demers is a mathematician known for his work in dynamical systems and ergodic theory, particularly in the study of chaotic billiards and related statistical properties.
  • E. Mike Lynch
    Mike Lynch is a collegiate athletics administrator best known for leading the athletic department at Babson College.
  • 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_69c68832af1481908ce356e133ebaebe completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d8e60f94819086315b1dd2ea7a3e completed March 27, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c742c999cc8190a14aa0ae6c7a1f54 completed March 28, 2026, 2:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c743dffc188190a59ca6c86483c348 completed March 28, 2026, 2:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7444e57a881908808a4bd96505048 completed March 28, 2026, 3 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:22 p.m.