Triple

T8247093
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ubuntu E192875 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object Mark Shuttleworth
Mark Shuttleworth is a South African entrepreneur and space tourist best known as the founder of Canonical Ltd., the company behind the Ubuntu operating system.
E721354 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: Mark Shuttleworth | Statement: [Ubuntu, founder, Mark Shuttleworth]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mark Shuttleworth
Context triple: [Ubuntu, founder, Mark Shuttleworth]
  • A. Ken Shuttleworth
    Ken Shuttleworth is a prominent British architect known for his innovative, high-profile contemporary buildings and as a co-founder of the architecture firm Make Architects.
  • B. Charles Simonyi
    Charles Simonyi is a Hungarian-American software engineer and entrepreneur best known for leading the development of Microsoft Office and later founding the software company Intentional Software.
  • C. Robb Armstrong
    Robb Armstrong is an American cartoonist best known as the creator of the long-running syndicated comic strip "JumpStart."
  • D. Siddhartha Khosla
    Siddhartha Khosla is an Emmy-nominated Indian-American composer and songwriter known for his television scores, including his acclaimed work on the series "Only Murders in the Building" and "This Is Us."
  • E. Bill Joy
    Bill Joy is an American computer scientist and software engineer best known as a co-founder of Sun Microsystems and a key developer of the Unix-based BSD operating system and the vi text editor.
  • 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: Mark Shuttleworth
Triple: [Ubuntu, founder, Mark Shuttleworth]
Generated description
Mark Shuttleworth is a South African entrepreneur and space tourist best known as the founder of Canonical Ltd., the company behind the Ubuntu operating system.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mark Shuttleworth
Target entity description: Mark Shuttleworth is a South African entrepreneur and space tourist best known as the founder of Canonical Ltd., the company behind the Ubuntu operating system.
  • A. Ken Shuttleworth
    Ken Shuttleworth is a prominent British architect known for his innovative, high-profile contemporary buildings and as a co-founder of the architecture firm Make Architects.
  • B. Charles Simonyi
    Charles Simonyi is a Hungarian-American software engineer and entrepreneur best known for leading the development of Microsoft Office and later founding the software company Intentional Software.
  • C. Robb Armstrong
    Robb Armstrong is an American cartoonist best known as the creator of the long-running syndicated comic strip "JumpStart."
  • D. Siddhartha Khosla
    Siddhartha Khosla is an Emmy-nominated Indian-American composer and songwriter known for his television scores, including his acclaimed work on the series "Only Murders in the Building" and "This Is Us."
  • E. Bill Joy
    Bill Joy is an American computer scientist and software engineer best known as a co-founder of Sun Microsystems and a key developer of the Unix-based BSD operating system and the vi text editor.
  • 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_69ca82de7b8c81908d8106f8a53cff9b completed March 30, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb7875318c819095f971ba513c54fd completed March 31, 2026, 7:32 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cd3530ca148190a28761622d0cf663 completed April 1, 2026, 3:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cd37a5d3bc8190801b1b0f09eee462 completed April 1, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cd4ef034ec8190a4229b21e6088c79 completed April 1, 2026, 4:59 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:48 p.m.