Triple

T7346288
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Merrill Lynch E169388 entity
Predicate keyPerson P256 FINISHED
Object Daniel Tully
Daniel Tully was an American businessman who served as chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch, helping to expand it into one of the world’s leading brokerage and investment firms.
E659385 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: Daniel Tully | Statement: [Merrill Lynch, keyPerson, Daniel Tully]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Daniel Tully
Context triple: [Merrill Lynch, keyPerson, Daniel Tully]
  • A. Brent Tully
    Brent Tully is an American astronomer known for his pioneering work on the large-scale structure of the universe and galaxy clustering, including the identification of major cosmic superclusters.
  • B. Eric W. Kaler
    Eric W. Kaler is an American chemical engineer and academic leader who has served as president of multiple major research universities.
  • C. Willis E. Davidge
    Willis E. Davidge is a human fighter pilot who becomes stranded on an alien world and forges an unlikely bond with his Drac enemy in the science fiction story "Enemy Mine."
  • D. Ian Messiter
    Ian Messiter was a British radio producer and game show creator best known for devising the long-running BBC Radio 4 panel show "Just a Minute."
  • E. Rodrigo A. Ibata
    Rodrigo A. Ibata is an astronomer known for his work on galactic structure and dynamics, including the identification of the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy as a nearby satellite of the Milky Way.
  • 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: Daniel Tully
Triple: [Merrill Lynch, keyPerson, Daniel Tully]
Generated description
Daniel Tully was an American businessman who served as chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch, helping to expand it into one of the world’s leading brokerage and investment firms.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Daniel Tully
Target entity description: Daniel Tully was an American businessman who served as chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch, helping to expand it into one of the world’s leading brokerage and investment firms.
  • A. Brent Tully
    Brent Tully is an American astronomer known for his pioneering work on the large-scale structure of the universe and galaxy clustering, including the identification of major cosmic superclusters.
  • B. Eric W. Kaler
    Eric W. Kaler is an American chemical engineer and academic leader who has served as president of multiple major research universities.
  • C. Willis E. Davidge
    Willis E. Davidge is a human fighter pilot who becomes stranded on an alien world and forges an unlikely bond with his Drac enemy in the science fiction story "Enemy Mine."
  • D. Ian Messiter
    Ian Messiter was a British radio producer and game show creator best known for devising the long-running BBC Radio 4 panel show "Just a Minute."
  • E. Rodrigo A. Ibata
    Rodrigo A. Ibata is an astronomer known for his work on galactic structure and dynamics, including the identification of the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy as a nearby satellite of the Milky Way.
  • 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_69c68a5878888190968ce4d04db8d69f completed March 27, 2026, 1:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f0f0329c8190a0182e3bf62604e5 completed March 27, 2026, 9:04 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7fa916ac881909acee8184b71dc85 completed March 28, 2026, 3:58 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7fb05966c819089f47be0b9d32cb2 completed March 28, 2026, 4 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7fddb63908190a5123ed8d7c9be1f completed March 28, 2026, 4:12 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:05 p.m.