Triple

T9668331
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pershing Square Holdings E233761 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Bill Ackman
Bill Ackman is an American billionaire hedge fund manager and activist investor best known as the founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management.
E813058 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: Bill Ackman | Statement: [Pershing Square Holdings, foundedBy, Bill Ackman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bill Ackman
Context triple: [Pershing Square Holdings, foundedBy, Bill Ackman]
  • A. David Einhorn
    David Einhorn was a 19th-century German-American rabbi and theologian who became a leading early architect and outspoken advocate of Reform Judaism in the United States.
  • B. Michael Burry
    Michael Burry is an American investor and hedge fund manager best known for predicting and profiting from the U.S. housing market collapse before the 2008 financial crisis.
  • C. Steve Cohen
    Steve Cohen is an American billionaire hedge fund manager and philanthropist who owns the New York Mets Major League Baseball team.
  • D. Carl Icahn
    Carl Icahn is an American billionaire investor and corporate raider known for his aggressive activist investing strategies and significant influence on Wall Street.
  • E. Seth Klarman
    Seth Klarman is an American billionaire investor, hedge fund manager, and author, best known as the long-time head of Baupost Group and a leading proponent of value investing.
  • 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: Bill Ackman
Triple: [Pershing Square Holdings, foundedBy, Bill Ackman]
Generated description
Bill Ackman is an American billionaire hedge fund manager and activist investor best known as the founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bill Ackman
Target entity description: Bill Ackman is an American billionaire hedge fund manager and activist investor best known as the founder and CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management.
  • A. David Einhorn
    David Einhorn was a 19th-century German-American rabbi and theologian who became a leading early architect and outspoken advocate of Reform Judaism in the United States.
  • B. Michael Burry
    Michael Burry is an American investor and hedge fund manager best known for predicting and profiting from the U.S. housing market collapse before the 2008 financial crisis.
  • C. Steve Cohen
    Steve Cohen is an American billionaire hedge fund manager and philanthropist who owns the New York Mets Major League Baseball team.
  • D. Carl Icahn
    Carl Icahn is an American billionaire investor and corporate raider known for his aggressive activist investing strategies and significant influence on Wall Street.
  • E. Seth Klarman
    Seth Klarman is an American billionaire investor, hedge fund manager, and author, best known as the long-time head of Baupost Group and a leading proponent of value investing.
  • 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_69ca848d3b6c8190ae98ea554dea58df completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd9c3c06e4819080c1b8e66faa482f completed April 1, 2026, 10:29 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d18a208798819088db055e44d288e3 completed April 4, 2026, 10:01 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d18ab1239c8190b4a66ccd0db35ffb completed April 4, 2026, 10:03 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d18b7f7510819083a402d6802c7d95 completed April 4, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:15 p.m.