Triple

T940927
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Columbia Business School E20302 entity
Predicate hasAlumni P51 FINISHED
Object Lionel Pincus
Lionel Pincus was an American financier best known as a pioneering private equity investor and co-founder of the investment firm Warburg Pincus.
E112512 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: Lionel Pincus | Statement: [Columbia Business School, hasAlumni, Lionel Pincus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lionel Pincus
Context triple: [Columbia Business School, hasAlumni, Lionel Pincus]
  • A. Harry Elkins Widener
    Harry Elkins Widener was a wealthy young American book collector and Harvard alumnus who died in the sinking of the Titanic, in whose memory Harvard’s Widener Library was built.
  • B. Paul Mellon
    Paul Mellon was an American philanthropist, art collector, and heir to the Mellon banking fortune who became one of the 20th century’s most influential patrons of the arts and education.
  • C. Samuel G. Fleisher
    Samuel G. Fleisher was a Philadelphia philanthropist and arts patron known for supporting accessible art education and helping establish key contemporary art institutions in the city.
  • D. Harold T. Shapiro
    Harold T. Shapiro is an economist and academic leader best known for serving as president of both Princeton University and the University of Michigan and for his influential work at the intersection of higher education and public policy.
  • E. Walter Hopps
    Walter Hopps was an influential American museum director and curator known for championing avant-garde and contemporary artists, particularly on the West Coast.
  • 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: Lionel Pincus
Triple: [Columbia Business School, hasAlumni, Lionel Pincus]
Generated description
Lionel Pincus was an American financier best known as a pioneering private equity investor and co-founder of the investment firm Warburg Pincus.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lionel Pincus
Target entity description: Lionel Pincus was an American financier best known as a pioneering private equity investor and co-founder of the investment firm Warburg Pincus.
  • A. Harry Elkins Widener
    Harry Elkins Widener was a wealthy young American book collector and Harvard alumnus who died in the sinking of the Titanic, in whose memory Harvard’s Widener Library was built.
  • B. Paul Mellon
    Paul Mellon was an American philanthropist, art collector, and heir to the Mellon banking fortune who became one of the 20th century’s most influential patrons of the arts and education.
  • C. Samuel G. Fleisher
    Samuel G. Fleisher was a Philadelphia philanthropist and arts patron known for supporting accessible art education and helping establish key contemporary art institutions in the city.
  • D. Harold T. Shapiro
    Harold T. Shapiro is an economist and academic leader best known for serving as president of both Princeton University and the University of Michigan and for his influential work at the intersection of higher education and public policy.
  • E. Walter Hopps
    Walter Hopps was an influential American museum director and curator known for championing avant-garde and contemporary artists, particularly on the West Coast.
  • 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_69a493b0270c81909e6c9ce310f6aa55 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b38cc6888190b1d9043ec8fbcbc3 completed March 1, 2026, 9:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a933a643708190a8d3da54b1e91bcf completed March 5, 2026, 7:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a93a0c69f881909e8843c7c8ca7d9d completed March 5, 2026, 8:08 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aa926943788190857398fecfd9c9da completed March 6, 2026, 8:38 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:40 p.m.