Triple
T8863440
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Howard Vollum |
E210947
|
entity |
| Predicate | spouse |
P13
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FINISHED |
| Object |
Jean Vollum
Jean Vollum was an American philanthropist and arts patron from Oregon, known for her significant support of education, culture, and community organizations, often in partnership with her husband, Tektronix co-founder Howard Vollum.
|
E762270
|
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: Jean Vollum | Statement: [Howard Vollum, spouse, Jean Vollum]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jean Vollum Context triple: [Howard Vollum, spouse, Jean Vollum]
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A.
Carla J. Shatz
Carla J. Shatz is an influential American neuroscientist renowned for her pioneering work on activity-dependent development and plasticity in the visual system and the brain.
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B.
Curtis Priem
Curtis Priem is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and early chief technology officer of the graphics processing company NVIDIA.
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C.
E. Bennett Walsh
E. Bennett Walsh is an American film producer known for his work on major Hollywood and international productions, including collaborations with prominent directors like Quentin Tarantino.
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D.
Linda Arvidson
Linda Arvidson was an early American silent film actress and writer, best known for her work in pioneering films of the 1900s and her association with director D. W. Griffith.
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E.
Michael C. Lovell
Michael C. Lovell is an American economist best known for his contributions to econometrics, including co-naming the Frisch–Waugh–Lovell theorem.
- 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: Jean Vollum Triple: [Howard Vollum, spouse, Jean Vollum]
Generated description
Jean Vollum was an American philanthropist and arts patron from Oregon, known for her significant support of education, culture, and community organizations, often in partnership with her husband, Tektronix co-founder Howard Vollum.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jean Vollum Target entity description: Jean Vollum was an American philanthropist and arts patron from Oregon, known for her significant support of education, culture, and community organizations, often in partnership with her husband, Tektronix co-founder Howard Vollum.
-
A.
Carla J. Shatz
Carla J. Shatz is an influential American neuroscientist renowned for her pioneering work on activity-dependent development and plasticity in the visual system and the brain.
-
B.
Curtis Priem
Curtis Priem is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and early chief technology officer of the graphics processing company NVIDIA.
-
C.
E. Bennett Walsh
E. Bennett Walsh is an American film producer known for his work on major Hollywood and international productions, including collaborations with prominent directors like Quentin Tarantino.
-
D.
Linda Arvidson
Linda Arvidson was an early American silent film actress and writer, best known for her work in pioneering films of the 1900s and her association with director D. W. Griffith.
-
E.
Michael C. Lovell
Michael C. Lovell is an American economist best known for his contributions to econometrics, including co-naming the Frisch–Waugh–Lovell theorem.
- 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_69ca838bbddc8190ab546d737e5d350f |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cc610416b48190a26f0c457089ffca |
completed | April 1, 2026, 12:04 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69cfa0caccd88190b6464f53d0239e47 |
completed | April 3, 2026, 11:13 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69cfa1abe8248190b6db4713292bdfd3 |
completed | April 3, 2026, 11:17 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69cfa24be80481909e2b575f99cd1dc4 |
completed | April 3, 2026, 11:19 a.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:50 p.m.