Triple

T7346289
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Merrill Lynch E169388 entity
Predicate keyPerson P256 FINISHED
Object David Komansky
David Komansky was an American businessman who served as chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch, overseeing its expansion into a global financial services powerhouse in the 1990s and early 2000s.
E659386 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: David Komansky | Statement: [Merrill Lynch, keyPerson, David Komansky]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Komansky
Context triple: [Merrill Lynch, keyPerson, David Komansky]
  • A. Jeff Kodosky
    Jeff Kodosky is an American engineer and co-founder of National Instruments, best known as the "father of LabVIEW" for creating the influential graphical programming environment.
  • B. David S. Kaufman
    David S. Kaufman was a 19th-century Texas politician and statesman who served as a U.S. Congressman and played a significant role in the early political development of Texas.
  • C. James C. Strouse
    James C. Strouse is an American screenwriter and director known for character-driven independent films such as "Grace Is Gone," "The Winning Season," and "The Hollars."
  • D. Josh Kesselman
    Josh Kesselman is a film and television producer best known for his work as an executive producer on projects such as the series "The Great."
  • E. Jonathan Poneman
    Jonathan Poneman is an American music executive best known as the co-founder of the influential independent record label Sub Pop, which helped launch the grunge movement and bands like Nirvana and Soundgarden.
  • 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: David Komansky
Triple: [Merrill Lynch, keyPerson, David Komansky]
Generated description
David Komansky was an American businessman who served as chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch, overseeing its expansion into a global financial services powerhouse in the 1990s and early 2000s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Komansky
Target entity description: David Komansky was an American businessman who served as chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch, overseeing its expansion into a global financial services powerhouse in the 1990s and early 2000s.
  • A. Jeff Kodosky
    Jeff Kodosky is an American engineer and co-founder of National Instruments, best known as the "father of LabVIEW" for creating the influential graphical programming environment.
  • B. David S. Kaufman
    David S. Kaufman was a 19th-century Texas politician and statesman who served as a U.S. Congressman and played a significant role in the early political development of Texas.
  • C. James C. Strouse
    James C. Strouse is an American screenwriter and director known for character-driven independent films such as "Grace Is Gone," "The Winning Season," and "The Hollars."
  • D. Josh Kesselman
    Josh Kesselman is a film and television producer best known for his work as an executive producer on projects such as the series "The Great."
  • E. Jonathan Poneman
    Jonathan Poneman is an American music executive best known as the co-founder of the influential independent record label Sub Pop, which helped launch the grunge movement and bands like Nirvana and Soundgarden.
  • 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.