Triple

T7835723
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Urban Decay E181686 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object David Soward
David Soward is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the cosmetics brand Urban Decay, which helped popularize edgy, alternative makeup in the 1990s.
 E701663 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 Soward | Statement: [Urban Decay, founder, David Soward]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: David Soward
Context triple: [Urban Decay, founder, David Soward]
  • A. Douglas Slocombe
    Douglas Slocombe was a renowned British cinematographer celebrated for his work on numerous classic films, including major entries in the Indiana Jones series.
  • B. Lawrence Crawford
    Lawrence Crawford was a 17th-century Scottish soldier of fortune who served as a major-general in the Parliamentarian army during the English Civil War.
  • C. John Leeson
    John Leeson is a British actor best known for voicing the robotic dog K-9 in the Doctor Who television franchise.
  • D. Jeffrey Stott
    Jeffrey Stott is a film producer best known for his work on the political comedy film "The American President."
  • E. Alan Manning
    Alan Manning is a British labour economist and professor at the London School of Economics, known for his influential research on wage inequality, monopsony in labour markets, and immigration policy.
  • 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 Soward
Triple: [Urban Decay, founder, David Soward]
Generated description
David Soward is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the cosmetics brand Urban Decay, which helped popularize edgy, alternative makeup in the 1990s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: David Soward
Target entity description: David Soward is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the cosmetics brand Urban Decay, which helped popularize edgy, alternative makeup in the 1990s.
  • A. Douglas Slocombe
    Douglas Slocombe was a renowned British cinematographer celebrated for his work on numerous classic films, including major entries in the Indiana Jones series.
  • B. Lawrence Crawford
    Lawrence Crawford was a 17th-century Scottish soldier of fortune who served as a major-general in the Parliamentarian army during the English Civil War.
  • C. John Leeson
    John Leeson is a British actor best known for voicing the robotic dog K-9 in the Doctor Who television franchise.
  • D. Jeffrey Stott
    Jeffrey Stott is a film producer best known for his work on the political comedy film "The American President."
  • E. Alan Manning
    Alan Manning is a British labour economist and professor at the London School of Economics, known for his influential research on wage inequality, monopsony in labour markets, and immigration policy.
  • 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_69ca8284a25c8190a1a20afad30da792 completed March 30, 2026, 2:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb064cb7e081909e88419863d94dfe completed March 30, 2026, 11:25 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cbdef9afbc8190bf5c8f3cf37221b6 completed March 31, 2026, 2:49 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cbe309518481909b0857271cb27ab0 completed March 31, 2026, 3:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cc05e055588190a5680c4416631c32 completed March 31, 2026, 5:35 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 4:46 p.m.