Triple

T20551259
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Avalanche Software E504601 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object John Blackburn
John Blackburn is a video game industry professional best known as the founder of Avalanche Software, a studio recognized for developing major licensed and open-world titles.
 E1436950 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: John Blackburn | Statement: [Avalanche Software, foundedBy, John Blackburn]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Blackburn
Context triple: [Avalanche Software, foundedBy, John Blackburn]
  • A. John Blackburn
    John Blackburn was an American lyricist best known for writing the words to the jazz standard "Moonlight in Vermont."
  • B. Tom Bennett
    Tom Bennett is a British actor and comedian known for his roles in television comedies and films such as "Love & Friendship."
  • C. Andrew Black
    Andrew Black is a British entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the online betting exchange Betfair.
  • D. Max Crook
    Max Crook was an American musician and pioneering electronic keyboardist best known for co-writing and playing the distinctive Musitron solo on Del Shannon’s hit song "Runaway."
  • E. James Black
    James Black was a Scottish pharmacologist and Nobel laureate renowned for developing the first beta-blocker and the H2 receptor antagonist cimetidine, revolutionizing cardiovascular and ulcer treatment.
  • 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: John Blackburn
Triple: [Avalanche Software, foundedBy, John Blackburn]
Generated description
John Blackburn is a video game industry professional best known as the founder of Avalanche Software, a studio recognized for developing major licensed and open-world titles.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Blackburn
Target entity description: John Blackburn is a video game industry professional best known as the founder of Avalanche Software, a studio recognized for developing major licensed and open-world titles.
  • A. John Blackburn
    John Blackburn was an American lyricist best known for writing the words to the jazz standard "Moonlight in Vermont."
  • B. Tom Bennett
    Tom Bennett is a British actor and comedian known for his roles in television comedies and films such as "Love & Friendship."
  • C. Andrew Black
    Andrew Black is a British entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the online betting exchange Betfair.
  • D. Max Crook
    Max Crook was an American musician and pioneering electronic keyboardist best known for co-writing and playing the distinctive Musitron solo on Del Shannon’s hit song "Runaway."
  • E. James Black
    James Black was a Scottish pharmacologist and Nobel laureate renowned for developing the first beta-blocker and the H2 receptor antagonist cimetidine, revolutionizing cardiovascular and ulcer treatment.
  • 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_69e0b4b52c048190952b4d0f430813a3 completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6a5d8b55081909c3e3e972aff846d completed April 20, 2026, 10:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a08a57192d48190a83d509da5712f98 completed May 16, 2026, 5:12 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a08a6439bc08190a2df7f1f7b24fadb completed May 16, 2026, 5:15 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08a70118dc8190bdf07bcc3342340e completed May 16, 2026, 5:18 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:38 a.m.