Triple

T17586291
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Victor Talking Machine Company E428329 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Eldridge R. Johnson
Eldridge R. Johnson was an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as the founder of the Victor Talking Machine Company, a pioneering firm in the early phonograph and recording industry.
 E1448433 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: Eldridge R. Johnson | Statement: [Victor Talking Machine Company, foundedBy, Eldridge R. Johnson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Eldridge R. Johnson
Context triple: [Victor Talking Machine Company, foundedBy, Eldridge R. Johnson]
  • A. John A. Johnson
    John A. Johnson is an American public official who served as commissioner of New York State’s Office of Children and Family Services, overseeing child welfare and juvenile justice programs.
  • B. James O. McKinsey
    James O. McKinsey was an American accounting professor and management consultant who pioneered modern management consulting and founded the firm that became McKinsey & Company.
  • C. Warren K. Blodgett
    Warren K. Blodgett is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a namesake or prominent bearer of the surname Blodgett.
  • D. George N. Humphrey
    George N. Humphrey was an American businessman and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, known for shaping and promoting the administration’s fiscally conservative “Modern Republican” economic policies.
  • E. Romeyn B. Ayres
    Romeyn B. Ayres was a Union Army general during the American Civil War, noted for his leadership of infantry units in key late-war battles.
  • 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: Eldridge R. Johnson
Triple: [Victor Talking Machine Company, foundedBy, Eldridge R. Johnson]
Generated description
Eldridge R. Johnson was an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as the founder of the Victor Talking Machine Company, a pioneering firm in the early phonograph and recording industry.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Eldridge R. Johnson
Target entity description: Eldridge R. Johnson was an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as the founder of the Victor Talking Machine Company, a pioneering firm in the early phonograph and recording industry.
  • A. John A. Johnson
    John A. Johnson is an American public official who served as commissioner of New York State’s Office of Children and Family Services, overseeing child welfare and juvenile justice programs.
  • B. James O. McKinsey
    James O. McKinsey was an American accounting professor and management consultant who pioneered modern management consulting and founded the firm that became McKinsey & Company.
  • C. Warren K. Blodgett
    Warren K. Blodgett is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a namesake or prominent bearer of the surname Blodgett.
  • D. George N. Humphrey
    George N. Humphrey was an American businessman and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, known for shaping and promoting the administration’s fiscally conservative “Modern Republican” economic policies.
  • E. Romeyn B. Ayres
    Romeyn B. Ayres was a Union Army general during the American Civil War, noted for his leadership of infantry units in key late-war battles.
  • 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_69d889e1030481909950e140c63255b9 completed April 10, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e463d22f908190ae0f1eeafbe54459 completed April 19, 2026, 5:10 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a08e81e54d4819099def0167ac64e26 completed May 16, 2026, 9:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a08e8fc1d6c819083f06debaa3bec24 completed May 16, 2026, 10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08e98a594c8190b3a2d9ae7e3af4f7 completed May 16, 2026, 10:02 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:50 a.m.