Triple
T21568238
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Nuance Communications |
E532215
|
entity |
| Predicate | foundedBy |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Ronald Croen
Ronald Croen is a technology entrepreneur best known as the founder of Nuance Communications, a pioneering company in speech recognition and voice interface software.
|
E1491184
|
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: Ronald Croen | Statement: [Nuance Communications, foundedBy, Ronald Croen]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ronald Croen Context triple: [Nuance Communications, foundedBy, Ronald Croen]
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A.
Roel Wever
Roel Wever is a Dutch politician who serves as the mayor of the city of Heerlen in the Netherlands.
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B.
Dirk Margadant
Dirk Margadant was a Dutch architect known for designing prominent public buildings in the Netherlands, including notable railway stations.
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C.
Robert Gribbroek
Robert Gribbroek was an American animation layout artist and background designer best known for his work on Warner Bros. cartoons during the Golden Age of American animation.
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D.
Ralph Zondag
Ralph Zondag is a Canadian film director and animator best known for co-directing Disney's 2000 computer-animated feature film "Dinosaur."
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E.
René Smits
René Smits is a Belgian legal scholar and former official of the European Central Bank known for his expertise in European Union and monetary law.
- 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: Ronald Croen Triple: [Nuance Communications, foundedBy, Ronald Croen]
Generated description
Ronald Croen is a technology entrepreneur best known as the founder of Nuance Communications, a pioneering company in speech recognition and voice interface software.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ronald Croen Target entity description: Ronald Croen is a technology entrepreneur best known as the founder of Nuance Communications, a pioneering company in speech recognition and voice interface software.
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A.
Roel Wever
Roel Wever is a Dutch politician who serves as the mayor of the city of Heerlen in the Netherlands.
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B.
Dirk Margadant
Dirk Margadant was a Dutch architect known for designing prominent public buildings in the Netherlands, including notable railway stations.
-
C.
Robert Gribbroek
Robert Gribbroek was an American animation layout artist and background designer best known for his work on Warner Bros. cartoons during the Golden Age of American animation.
-
D.
Ralph Zondag
Ralph Zondag is a Canadian film director and animator best known for co-directing Disney's 2000 computer-animated feature film "Dinosaur."
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E.
René Smits
René Smits is a Belgian legal scholar and former official of the European Central Bank known for his expertise in European Union and monetary law.
- 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_69e0c460db088190828c64206a450273 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69eee9cad95c8190ab165ced6f242302 |
completed | April 27, 2026, 4:44 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a09f66e2c1c819097175c7ccab18130 |
completed | May 17, 2026, 5:10 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_6a09f70d94308190b1c8f11e0a93b883 |
completed | May 17, 2026, 5:12 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_6a09f7f91058819081d7230042ec080c |
completed | May 17, 2026, 5:16 p.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:30 p.m.