Triple

T9535642
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Best Buy E230007 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Richard M. Schulze
Richard M. Schulze is an American businessman and billionaire best known as the founder and longtime leader of the consumer electronics retail chain Best Buy.
 E892316 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: Richard M. Schulze | Statement: [Best Buy, foundedBy, Richard M. Schulze]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Richard M. Schulze
Context triple: [Best Buy, foundedBy, Richard M. Schulze]
  • A. Paul W. Kiefer
    Paul W. Kiefer was an American engineer and industrialist best known for his pioneering role in developing diesel-electric locomotive technology and helping shape modern railroad motive power.
  • B. Robert A. Burgelman
    Robert A. Burgelman is a scholar of strategic management and corporate innovation, known for his influential research on strategy-making processes and long-time professorship at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
  • C. Richard J. Hieb
    Richard J. Hieb is a former NASA astronaut and engineer who flew on three Space Shuttle missions in the early 1990s, contributing to satellite deployment, repair, and microgravity research.
  • D. James S. Voss
    James S. Voss is a retired U.S. Army officer and NASA astronaut who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and spent over five months aboard the International Space Station.
  • E. Richard A. Diehl
    Richard A. Diehl is an American archaeologist and Mesoamericanist best known for his influential research on the Olmec civilization and early complex societies in ancient Mexico.
  • 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: Richard M. Schulze
Triple: [Best Buy, foundedBy, Richard M. Schulze]
Generated description
Richard M. Schulze is an American businessman and billionaire best known as the founder and longtime leader of the consumer electronics retail chain Best Buy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Richard M. Schulze
Target entity description: Richard M. Schulze is an American businessman and billionaire best known as the founder and longtime leader of the consumer electronics retail chain Best Buy.
  • A. Paul W. Kiefer
    Paul W. Kiefer was an American engineer and industrialist best known for his pioneering role in developing diesel-electric locomotive technology and helping shape modern railroad motive power.
  • B. Robert A. Burgelman
    Robert A. Burgelman is a scholar of strategic management and corporate innovation, known for his influential research on strategy-making processes and long-time professorship at Stanford Graduate School of Business.
  • C. Richard J. Hieb
    Richard J. Hieb is a former NASA astronaut and engineer who flew on three Space Shuttle missions in the early 1990s, contributing to satellite deployment, repair, and microgravity research.
  • D. James S. Voss
    James S. Voss is a retired U.S. Army officer and NASA astronaut who flew on multiple Space Shuttle missions and spent over five months aboard the International Space Station.
  • E. Richard A. Diehl
    Richard A. Diehl is an American archaeologist and Mesoamericanist best known for his influential research on the Olmec civilization and early complex societies in ancient Mexico.
  • 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_69ca847b1b3081908f72bc932c17cc41 completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd98cd6a5c8190835c0910ec38ede3 completed April 1, 2026, 10:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e15435faa881909b1a124f8027deeb completed April 16, 2026, 9:27 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e17d3060888190b3801272835b939a completed April 17, 2026, 12:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e1806bc1048190bcbff6f6d3d7da19 completed April 17, 2026, 12:35 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8 p.m.