Triple

T7428372
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Polycom E171423 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Brian L. Hinman
Brian L. Hinman is an American technology entrepreneur and executive best known for co-founding multiple communications companies, including Polycom, and pioneering advances in voice and video conferencing.
E691724 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: Brian L. Hinman | Statement: [Polycom, foundedBy, Brian L. Hinman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brian L. Hinman
Context triple: [Polycom, foundedBy, Brian L. Hinman]
  • A. Craig A. Stough
    Craig A. Stough is an American local government leader who serves as the mayor of Sylvania, Ohio.
  • B. Michael T. Williamson
    Michael T. Williamson is an American actor best known for his role as Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue in the film Forrest Gump.
  • C. Martin J. Hillenbrand
    Martin J. Hillenbrand was an American career diplomat who held several key Cold War-era posts, including serving as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary and later to the Federal Republic of Germany.
  • D. David M. Satterfield
    David M. Satterfield is an American diplomat and former U.S. ambassador who has held several senior foreign policy roles, including directing Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.
  • E. Bruce H. Mann
    Bruce H. Mann is an American legal historian and Harvard Law School professor known for his scholarship on early American legal and economic history and for being married to U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren.
  • 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: Brian L. Hinman
Triple: [Polycom, foundedBy, Brian L. Hinman]
Generated description
Brian L. Hinman is an American technology entrepreneur and executive best known for co-founding multiple communications companies, including Polycom, and pioneering advances in voice and video conferencing.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brian L. Hinman
Target entity description: Brian L. Hinman is an American technology entrepreneur and executive best known for co-founding multiple communications companies, including Polycom, and pioneering advances in voice and video conferencing.
  • A. Craig A. Stough
    Craig A. Stough is an American local government leader who serves as the mayor of Sylvania, Ohio.
  • B. Michael T. Williamson
    Michael T. Williamson is an American actor best known for his role as Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue in the film Forrest Gump.
  • C. Martin J. Hillenbrand
    Martin J. Hillenbrand was an American career diplomat who held several key Cold War-era posts, including serving as U.S. Ambassador to Hungary and later to the Federal Republic of Germany.
  • D. David M. Satterfield
    David M. Satterfield is an American diplomat and former U.S. ambassador who has held several senior foreign policy roles, including directing Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.
  • E. Bruce H. Mann
    Bruce H. Mann is an American legal historian and Harvard Law School professor known for his scholarship on early American legal and economic history and for being married to U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren.
  • 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_69c68a63491881909281f73d4d5643bf completed March 27, 2026, 1:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f306bfe481909f99f6792de95ffc completed March 27, 2026, 9:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c9a53a44e48190bddf0f4faec136e7 completed March 29, 2026, 10:18 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c9a665ccc081909564e4c83dbd303c completed March 29, 2026, 10:23 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c9a6b366348190b72f896243c70c38 completed March 29, 2026, 10:24 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:12 p.m.