Triple

T15575910
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Long Now Foundation E374369 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Stewart Brand
Stewart Brand is an American writer, futurist, and environmentalist best known for creating the Whole Earth Catalog and promoting long-term thinking and sustainability.
E1164606 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: Stewart Brand | Statement: [Long Now Foundation, foundedBy, Stewart Brand]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Stewart Brand
Context triple: [Long Now Foundation, foundedBy, Stewart Brand]
  • A. Joel Garreau
    Joel Garreau is an American journalist and author best known for popularizing the concept of the "edge city" in urban studies.
  • B. Philip Resnick
    Philip Resnick is a Canadian political scientist and poet known for his work on nationalism, federalism, and Canadian political thought.
  • C. John Battelle
    John Battelle is an American entrepreneur, author, and media executive best known for co-founding Wired magazine and Federated Media Publishing and for his influential work chronicling and shaping the evolution of the internet industry.
  • D. Tim O'Reilly
    Tim O'Reilly is a prominent technology publisher, author, and founder of O'Reilly Media, known for popularizing terms like "open source" and "Web 2.0" and for his influential role in shaping the modern tech industry.
  • E. Andrew Keen
    Andrew Keen is a British-American entrepreneur and author best known as a prominent critic of Web 2.0 culture and the social and economic impacts of the internet.
  • 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: Stewart Brand
Triple: [Long Now Foundation, foundedBy, Stewart Brand]
Generated description
Stewart Brand is an American writer, futurist, and environmentalist best known for creating the Whole Earth Catalog and promoting long-term thinking and sustainability.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Stewart Brand
Target entity description: Stewart Brand is an American writer, futurist, and environmentalist best known for creating the Whole Earth Catalog and promoting long-term thinking and sustainability.
  • A. Joel Garreau
    Joel Garreau is an American journalist and author best known for popularizing the concept of the "edge city" in urban studies.
  • B. Philip Resnick
    Philip Resnick is a Canadian political scientist and poet known for his work on nationalism, federalism, and Canadian political thought.
  • C. John Battelle
    John Battelle is an American entrepreneur, author, and media executive best known for co-founding Wired magazine and Federated Media Publishing and for his influential work chronicling and shaping the evolution of the internet industry.
  • D. Tim O'Reilly
    Tim O'Reilly is a prominent technology publisher, author, and founder of O'Reilly Media, known for popularizing terms like "open source" and "Web 2.0" and for his influential role in shaping the modern tech industry.
  • E. Andrew Keen
    Andrew Keen is a British-American entrepreneur and author best known as a prominent critic of Web 2.0 culture and the social and economic impacts of the internet.
  • 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_69d85ccd575081908909b71a3f3e3a61 completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e04e2140388190a8df7b835eaa72ce completed April 16, 2026, 2:49 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff4c4978ec8190a57de5d9a2ec6653 completed May 9, 2026, 3:01 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff4d0678648190b61fbe79a60da8ec completed May 9, 2026, 3:04 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff4d9258148190b21201bb09e16999 completed May 9, 2026, 3:06 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:10 a.m.