Triple

T931464
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Carlyle Group E20101 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object William E. Conway Jr.
William E. Conway Jr. is an American billionaire businessman and investor best known as a co-founder and longtime leader of the global private equity firm The Carlyle Group.
 E232675 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: William E. Conway Jr. | Statement: [The Carlyle Group, foundedBy, William E. Conway Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William E. Conway Jr.
Context triple: [The Carlyle Group, foundedBy, William E. Conway Jr.]
  • A. William F. Raynolds
    William F. Raynolds was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and explorer known for his surveying and exploratory expeditions in North America and beyond.
  • B. Robert W. Hunt
    Robert W. Hunt was an American engineer and industrialist known for his influential role in the development of the U.S. mining and metallurgical industries and leadership in professional engineering organizations.
  • C. Alton G. Keel Jr.
    Alton G. Keel Jr. was an American aerospace engineer and government official who held senior defense and space policy roles, including service on the Rogers Commission investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
  • D. George F. Meacham
    George F. Meacham was a 19th-century American landscape architect best known for designing Boston’s Public Garden.
  • E. James G. Batterson
    James G. Batterson was a 19th-century American businessman and insurance pioneer best known for founding what became the Travelers Companies.
  • 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: William E. Conway Jr.
Triple: [The Carlyle Group, foundedBy, William E. Conway Jr.]
Generated description
William E. Conway Jr. is an American billionaire businessman and investor best known as a co-founder and longtime leader of the global private equity firm The Carlyle Group.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William E. Conway Jr.
Target entity description: William E. Conway Jr. is an American billionaire businessman and investor best known as a co-founder and longtime leader of the global private equity firm The Carlyle Group.
  • A. William F. Raynolds
    William F. Raynolds was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and explorer known for his surveying and exploratory expeditions in North America and beyond.
  • B. Robert W. Hunt
    Robert W. Hunt was an American engineer and industrialist known for his influential role in the development of the U.S. mining and metallurgical industries and leadership in professional engineering organizations.
  • C. Alton G. Keel Jr.
    Alton G. Keel Jr. was an American aerospace engineer and government official who held senior defense and space policy roles, including service on the Rogers Commission investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
  • D. George F. Meacham
    George F. Meacham was a 19th-century American landscape architect best known for designing Boston’s Public Garden.
  • E. James G. Batterson
    James G. Batterson was a 19th-century American businessman and insurance pioneer best known for founding what became the Travelers Companies.
  • 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_69a493af3dc48190adb7263e6e445ea1 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b34b302c81908fa32cb18f551493 completed March 1, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae26c4077081908dbf36ed274afa58 completed March 9, 2026, 1:47 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae2763b4b08190b733e8342a52f75e completed March 9, 2026, 1:50 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae27d10bf08190a14fa1ca906646f8 completed March 9, 2026, 1:52 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:40 p.m.