Triple

T9532853
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Data General E229936 entity
Predicate knownFor P22 FINISHED
Object Nova 16-bit minicomputers
Nova 16-bit minicomputers were a popular line of compact, cost-effective minicomputers introduced in the late 1960s that became widely used in scientific, industrial, and embedded applications.
E805890 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: Nova 16-bit minicomputers | Statement: [Data General, knownFor, Nova 16-bit minicomputers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nova 16-bit minicomputers
Context triple: [Data General, knownFor, Nova 16-bit minicomputers]
  • A. Honeywell 316 minicomputer
    The Honeywell 316 minicomputer was a small, 16-bit general-purpose computer from the late 1960s widely used in early networking and control applications.
  • B. PDP-11
    The PDP-11 is a series of 16-bit minicomputers introduced by Digital Equipment Corporation in the 1970s that became highly influential in computer architecture and operating system development.
  • C. MicroVAX
    MicroVAX is a family of smaller, lower-cost minicomputers in Digital Equipment Corporation’s VAX line, designed to bring VAX architecture to departmental and office environments.
  • D. PDP series minicomputers
    The PDP series minicomputers were influential mid-20th-century Digital Equipment Corporation systems that helped popularize interactive, time-sharing computing and shaped the development of modern computer architecture.
  • E. Altair 680 computer
    The Altair 680 computer is a mid-1970s hobbyist microcomputer kit produced by MITS as a successor to the Altair 8800, notable for using the Motorola 6800 microprocessor instead of the Intel 8080.
  • 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: Nova 16-bit minicomputers
Triple: [Data General, knownFor, Nova 16-bit minicomputers]
Generated description
Nova 16-bit minicomputers were a popular line of compact, cost-effective minicomputers introduced in the late 1960s that became widely used in scientific, industrial, and embedded applications.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nova 16-bit minicomputers
Target entity description: Nova 16-bit minicomputers were a popular line of compact, cost-effective minicomputers introduced in the late 1960s that became widely used in scientific, industrial, and embedded applications.
  • A. Honeywell 316 minicomputer
    The Honeywell 316 minicomputer was a small, 16-bit general-purpose computer from the late 1960s widely used in early networking and control applications.
  • B. PDP-11
    The PDP-11 is a series of 16-bit minicomputers introduced by Digital Equipment Corporation in the 1970s that became highly influential in computer architecture and operating system development.
  • C. MicroVAX
    MicroVAX is a family of smaller, lower-cost minicomputers in Digital Equipment Corporation’s VAX line, designed to bring VAX architecture to departmental and office environments.
  • D. PDP series minicomputers
    The PDP series minicomputers were influential mid-20th-century Digital Equipment Corporation systems that helped popularize interactive, time-sharing computing and shaped the development of modern computer architecture.
  • E. Altair 680 computer
    The Altair 680 computer is a mid-1970s hobbyist microcomputer kit produced by MITS as a successor to the Altair 8800, notable for using the Motorola 6800 microprocessor instead of the Intel 8080.
  • 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_69ca8479934c81908006d0e6e970ae05 completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd98b5651881908241b040f123c6a8 completed April 1, 2026, 10:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d14c4033c08190a71535b63d86f4df completed April 4, 2026, 5:37 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d14df56ac881909fad7241797b1829 completed April 4, 2026, 5:44 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d14e7a8ca88190b38c93ff312e7333 completed April 4, 2026, 5:46 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8 p.m.