Triple

T17843436
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject David Chaum E445591 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object DigiCash
DigiCash was an early digital currency company founded by cryptographer David Chaum that pioneered privacy-preserving electronic cash systems in the 1990s.
E1290981 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: DigiCash | Statement: [David Chaum, employer, DigiCash]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: DigiCash
Context triple: [David Chaum, employer, DigiCash]
  • A. Zcash
    Zcash is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency that uses zero-knowledge proofs to enable shielded, confidential transactions on a public blockchain.
  • B. Electric Coin Company
    Electric Coin Company is the for-profit firm that created and maintains the privacy-focused cryptocurrency Zcash, developing its underlying cryptographic technology and protocol.
  • C. Gascoine
    Gascoine is a surname most notably associated with English actress and novelist Jill Gascoine.
  • D. Ngarigo Monero
    Ngarigo Monero refers to an Aboriginal Australian group traditionally associated with the Monaro region of southeastern New South Wales and northeastern Victoria.
  • E. Ripple
    Ripple is a small village in the Dover District of Kent, England, known for its rural character and historic parish church.
  • 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: DigiCash
Triple: [David Chaum, employer, DigiCash]
Generated description
DigiCash was an early digital currency company founded by cryptographer David Chaum that pioneered privacy-preserving electronic cash systems in the 1990s.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: DigiCash
Target entity description: DigiCash was an early digital currency company founded by cryptographer David Chaum that pioneered privacy-preserving electronic cash systems in the 1990s.
  • A. Zcash
    Zcash is a privacy-focused cryptocurrency that uses zero-knowledge proofs to enable shielded, confidential transactions on a public blockchain.
  • B. Electric Coin Company
    Electric Coin Company is the for-profit firm that created and maintains the privacy-focused cryptocurrency Zcash, developing its underlying cryptographic technology and protocol.
  • C. Gascoine
    Gascoine is a surname most notably associated with English actress and novelist Jill Gascoine.
  • D. Ngarigo Monero
    Ngarigo Monero refers to an Aboriginal Australian group traditionally associated with the Monaro region of southeastern New South Wales and northeastern Victoria.
  • E. Ripple
    Ripple is a small village in the Dover District of Kent, England, known for its rural character and historic parish church.
  • 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_69d8b9f1a6d881909f024bc603111cdb completed April 10, 2026, 8:50 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e48ff8730881908cc8e1b572fa0af8 completed April 19, 2026, 8:19 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0306feb6608190b90c2a3aaa6c0467 completed May 12, 2026, 10:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0307a17a4c81909a0b19b85a2d0adb completed May 12, 2026, 10:57 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03080d46fc8190890000cfd0ede60e completed May 12, 2026, 10:59 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:16 a.m.