Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Playdom E532264 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Shaun Merritt
Shaun Merritt is an entrepreneur best known as a founder of the social gaming company Playdom, which developed popular games for social networking platforms.
E1491376 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: Shaun Merritt | Statement: [Playdom, foundedBy, Shaun Merritt]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shaun Merritt
Context triple: [Playdom, foundedBy, Shaun Merritt]
  • A. Shaun Smith
    Shaun Smith is one of the children of the bestselling South African adventure novelist Wilbur Smith.
  • B. Shaun Sutton
    Shaun Sutton was a prominent British television producer and BBC executive best known for overseeing and shaping many acclaimed drama productions during the mid-20th century.
  • C. Shaun Bailey
    Shaun Bailey is a British Conservative politician who served as the party’s candidate in the 2021 London mayoral election and has been a prominent member of the London Assembly.
  • D. Shaun Russell
    Shaun Russell is the resourceful and determined mother who fights to protect her children during a violent home invasion in the thriller film "Breaking In."
  • E. Ryan Merriman
    Ryan Merriman is an American actor best known for his roles in films like "Final Destination 3" and several Disney Channel movies, as well as television series such as "Pretty Little Liars."
  • 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: Shaun Merritt
Triple: [Playdom, foundedBy, Shaun Merritt]
Generated description
Shaun Merritt is an entrepreneur best known as a founder of the social gaming company Playdom, which developed popular games for social networking platforms.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shaun Merritt
Target entity description: Shaun Merritt is an entrepreneur best known as a founder of the social gaming company Playdom, which developed popular games for social networking platforms.
  • A. Shaun Smith
    Shaun Smith is one of the children of the bestselling South African adventure novelist Wilbur Smith.
  • B. Shaun Sutton
    Shaun Sutton was a prominent British television producer and BBC executive best known for overseeing and shaping many acclaimed drama productions during the mid-20th century.
  • C. Shaun Bailey
    Shaun Bailey is a British Conservative politician who served as the party’s candidate in the 2021 London mayoral election and has been a prominent member of the London Assembly.
  • D. Shaun Russell
    Shaun Russell is the resourceful and determined mother who fights to protect her children during a violent home invasion in the thriller film "Breaking In."
  • E. Ryan Merriman
    Ryan Merriman is an American actor best known for his roles in films like "Final Destination 3" and several Disney Channel movies, as well as television series such as "Pretty Little Liars."
  • 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_69eee9cc5c448190887a836f577d01ba completed April 27, 2026, 4:45 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a09f6707578819095e5ac0312066df6 completed May 17, 2026, 5:10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a09f71df0308190b5953a76da60c6d4 completed May 17, 2026, 5:13 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a09f80784648190ae073b4db90032c1 completed May 17, 2026, 5:16 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:30 p.m.