Triple
T7511746
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Vollum Institute |
E177536
|
entity |
| Predicate | foundedBy |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Howard Vollum |
E210947
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Howard Vollum | Statement: [Vollum Institute, foundedBy, Howard Vollum]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard Vollum Context triple: [Vollum Institute, foundedBy, Howard Vollum]
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A.
Howard Vollum
chosen
Howard Vollum was an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Tektronix, a pioneering company in oscilloscopes and electronic test equipment.
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B.
Howard Ellsworth Wood
Howard Ellsworth "Smoky Joe" Wood was an American Major League Baseball pitcher and later outfielder, famed for his dominant fastball and standout seasons with the Boston Red Sox in the early 20th century.
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C.
Howard Sprague
Howard Sprague is a mild-mannered, bookish county clerk and later bureaucrat character from the classic American television series "The Andy Griffith Show" and its spin-offs, set in the fictional town of Mayberry.
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D.
Howard Franklin
Howard Franklin is an American screenwriter and film director known for his work on movies such as "Quick Change" and "The Name of the Rose."
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E.
Howard Wagner
Howard Wagner is the young, business-focused employer of Willy Loman in Arthur Miller's play "Death of a Salesman," representing the impersonal, modern corporate world.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69c69f276b108190af2cc790b6554544 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 3:15 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c6f5d33960819089a10c1149abf4b2 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 9:25 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69cc638e62608190958e90b07138a1cc |
completed | April 1, 2026, 12:15 a.m. |
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:45 p.m.