Triple

T15575918
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Long Now Foundation E374369 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Doug Carlston
Doug Carlston is an American entrepreneur and co-founder of the video game company Broderbund, known for his later involvement in long-term cultural and technological initiatives.
E1209751 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: Doug Carlston | Statement: [Long Now Foundation, foundedBy, Doug Carlston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Doug Carlston
Context triple: [Long Now Foundation, foundedBy, Doug Carlston]
  • A. Ron Carlson
    Ron Carlson is an American author and educator known for his acclaimed short stories and novels that often explore everyday lives with humor and emotional depth.
  • B. Ken Ralston
    Ken Ralston is an acclaimed visual effects supervisor known for his groundbreaking work on major films such as the Star Wars and Back to the Future series.
  • C. Doug Howlett
    Doug Howlett is a former New Zealand rugby union winger who became the all-time leading try-scorer for the All Blacks and later starred for Munster in European club rugby.
  • D. Steve Judd
    Steve Judd is the aging, principled former lawman at the heart of the Western film "Ride the High Country," whose moral integrity drives the story’s central conflict.
  • E. Douglas Brunt
    Douglas Brunt is an American novelist and former CEO of the cybersecurity firm Authentium, known also as the husband of journalist Megyn Kelly.
  • 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: Doug Carlston
Triple: [Long Now Foundation, foundedBy, Doug Carlston]
Generated description
Doug Carlston is an American entrepreneur and co-founder of the video game company Broderbund, known for his later involvement in long-term cultural and technological initiatives.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Doug Carlston
Target entity description: Doug Carlston is an American entrepreneur and co-founder of the video game company Broderbund, known for his later involvement in long-term cultural and technological initiatives.
  • A. Ron Carlson
    Ron Carlson is an American author and educator known for his acclaimed short stories and novels that often explore everyday lives with humor and emotional depth.
  • B. Ken Ralston
    Ken Ralston is an acclaimed visual effects supervisor known for his groundbreaking work on major films such as the Star Wars and Back to the Future series.
  • C. Doug Howlett
    Doug Howlett is a former New Zealand rugby union winger who became the all-time leading try-scorer for the All Blacks and later starred for Munster in European club rugby.
  • D. Steve Judd
    Steve Judd is the aging, principled former lawman at the heart of the Western film "Ride the High Country," whose moral integrity drives the story’s central conflict.
  • E. Douglas Brunt
    Douglas Brunt is an American novelist and former CEO of the cybersecurity firm Authentium, known also as the husband of journalist Megyn Kelly.
  • 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_6a0035450810819092796c556dfa8ed3 completed May 10, 2026, 7:35 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0036111b54819096d62c61b8d4244d completed May 10, 2026, 7:38 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00374fdecc819091f64e3174d013a6 completed May 10, 2026, 7:44 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:10 a.m.