Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Unity Technologies E183361 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Nicholas Francis
Nicholas Francis is a Danish software developer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the game engine and technology company Unity Technologies.
E697454 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: Nicholas Francis | Statement: [Unity Technologies, foundedBy, Nicholas Francis]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nicholas Francis
Context triple: [Unity Technologies, foundedBy, Nicholas Francis]
  • A. Nicholas Howard
    Nicholas Howard is a member of the British Howard family, known as the son of Conservative politician and former UK Home Secretary Michael Howard.
  • B. Nicholas Hamilton
    Nicholas Hamilton is an Australian actor best known for his role as bully Henry Bowers in the horror film "It" (2017).
  • C. Nicholas St. John
    Nicholas St. John is an American screenwriter best known for his long-time collaboration with director Abel Ferrara on gritty, character-driven films.
  • D. Nicholas of Guildford
    Nicholas of Guildford is a medieval English writer believed by some scholars to be the author of the Middle English debate poem *The Owl and the Nightingale*.
  • E. Nicholas Liverpool
    Nicholas Liverpool was a Dominican jurist and politician who served as the President of Dominica in the 2000s.
  • 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: Nicholas Francis
Triple: [Unity Technologies, foundedBy, Nicholas Francis]
Generated description
Nicholas Francis is a Danish software developer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the game engine and technology company Unity Technologies.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nicholas Francis
Target entity description: Nicholas Francis is a Danish software developer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the game engine and technology company Unity Technologies.
  • A. Nicholas Howard
    Nicholas Howard is a member of the British Howard family, known as the son of Conservative politician and former UK Home Secretary Michael Howard.
  • B. Nicholas Hamilton
    Nicholas Hamilton is an Australian actor best known for his role as bully Henry Bowers in the horror film "It" (2017).
  • C. Nicholas St. John
    Nicholas St. John is an American screenwriter best known for his long-time collaboration with director Abel Ferrara on gritty, character-driven films.
  • D. Nicholas of Guildford
    Nicholas of Guildford is a medieval English writer believed by some scholars to be the author of the Middle English debate poem *The Owl and the Nightingale*.
  • E. Nicholas Liverpool
    Nicholas Liverpool was a Dominican jurist and politician who served as the President of Dominica in the 2000s.
  • 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_69ca828c474c8190a254d6499871eaff completed March 30, 2026, 2:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb3a187a0081909a0c0822c6dab1da completed March 31, 2026, 3:06 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cb5bb24c8c8190860e4dd1d705b04b completed March 31, 2026, 5:29 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cb5f1e84fc8190b535016cb69405b4 completed March 31, 2026, 5:43 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cb76a214488190b90e5db28511daa0 completed March 31, 2026, 7:24 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:01 p.m.