Triple

T19211734
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Norm Waitt Jr. E480371 entity
Predicate hasLastNameSpelling P56633 FINISHED
Object W-a-i-t-t
W-a-i-t-t is the surname of American businessman and Gateway computer company co-founder Norm Waitt Jr.
E1363785 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: W-a-i-t-t | Statement: [Norm Waitt Jr., hasLastNameSpelling, W-a-i-t-t]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: W-a-i-t-t
Context triple: [Norm Waitt Jr., hasLastNameSpelling, W-a-i-t-t]
  • A. Waid
    Waid is a less common variant of the given name Wade, typically used as a masculine first or family name.
  • B. WAWA
    WAWA is the station code for Wawa railway station, a train stop located in Wawa, New South Wales, Australia.
  • C. Waic
    Waic is a subgroup of related Austroasiatic languages spoken primarily by the Wa people in parts of China and Myanmar.
  • D. WAA
    WAA is the acronym for the Winnipeg Airports Authority, the organization responsible for operating and managing Winnipeg’s airport facilities.
  • E. WAE
    WAE is the National Rail station code for Waterloo East railway station in London, England.
  • 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: W-a-i-t-t
Triple: [Norm Waitt Jr., hasLastNameSpelling, W-a-i-t-t]
Generated description
W-a-i-t-t is the surname of American businessman and Gateway computer company co-founder Norm Waitt Jr.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: W-a-i-t-t
Target entity description: W-a-i-t-t is the surname of American businessman and Gateway computer company co-founder Norm Waitt Jr.
  • A. Waid
    Waid is a less common variant of the given name Wade, typically used as a masculine first or family name.
  • B. WAWA
    WAWA is the station code for Wawa railway station, a train stop located in Wawa, New South Wales, Australia.
  • C. Waic
    Waic is a subgroup of related Austroasiatic languages spoken primarily by the Wa people in parts of China and Myanmar.
  • D. WAA
    WAA is the acronym for the Winnipeg Airports Authority, the organization responsible for operating and managing Winnipeg’s airport facilities.
  • E. WAE
    WAE is the National Rail station code for Waterloo East railway station in London, England.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: hasLastNameSpelling
Context triple: [Norm Waitt Jr., hasLastNameSpelling, W-a-i-t-t]
  • A. hasSeptSurname
    Indicates that an entity bears a surname associated with a particular sept (a family subgroup or clan division).
  • B. isSurname
    Indicates that one entity is the family name (last name) of another entity.
  • C. hasBaseSurname
    Indicates that an entity’s surname is derived from, or fundamentally corresponds to, a specified base or canonical surname.
  • D. hasTypicalSpelling chosen
    Indicates that one form is the standard or commonly accepted spelling of another form.
  • E. nameSpellingStandardized
    Indicates that an entity’s name has been normalized to a consistent, standardized spelling form.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69d8e8cb8c348190b52075823911c869 completed April 10, 2026, 12:10 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5fa37fc7881908c53e332625dcdb4 completed April 20, 2026, 10:04 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0700e6af48819092d63922162e3a7b completed May 15, 2026, 11:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a070159193081908144fd444eb981e4 completed May 15, 2026, 11:19 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0701b8fadc81909cd1afae9f2c9746 completed May 15, 2026, 11:21 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69e4dcf22b3c8190bee02e3af946e114 completed April 19, 2026, 1:47 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:21 p.m.