Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Playdom E532264 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object William Liu
William Liu is an entrepreneur best known as a founder of the social gaming company Playdom, which developed popular games for social networking platforms.
E1498417 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: William Liu | Statement: [Playdom, foundedBy, William Liu]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Liu
Context triple: [Playdom, foundedBy, William Liu]
  • A. Sam Liu
    Sam Liu is an American animation director best known for his extensive work on DC Comics animated films and television series.
  • B. William Li
    William Li is a Chinese entrepreneur best known as the founder and CEO of the electric vehicle company NIO.
  • C. Michael Li
    Michael Li is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Playdom, a social gaming company that became a major developer of games for social networks.
  • D. Steven Liu
    Steven Liu is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the social gaming company Playdom, which was acquired by Disney.
  • E. Ernest Liu
    Ernest Liu is an American actor best known for his role as Scott Fuller in the horror film "From Dusk Till Dawn."
  • 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: William Liu
Triple: [Playdom, foundedBy, William Liu]
Generated description
William Liu 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: William Liu
Target entity description: William Liu is an entrepreneur best known as a founder of the social gaming company Playdom, which developed popular games for social networking platforms.
  • A. Sam Liu
    Sam Liu is an American animation director best known for his extensive work on DC Comics animated films and television series.
  • B. William Li
    William Li is a Chinese entrepreneur best known as the founder and CEO of the electric vehicle company NIO.
  • C. Michael Li
    Michael Li is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of Playdom, a social gaming company that became a major developer of games for social networks.
  • D. Steven Liu chosen
    Steven Liu is an entrepreneur best known as a co-founder of the social gaming company Playdom, which was acquired by Disney.
  • E. Ernest Liu
    Ernest Liu is an American actor best known for his role as Scott Fuller in the horror film "From Dusk Till Dawn."
  • F. None of above.

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_6a0a2ebc817c81908c14a3974c50ff63 completed May 17, 2026, 9:10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0a2f6273ac8190b68980c9c42aa6c0 completed May 17, 2026, 9:13 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0a2fc4470481908e897e056cb7d09e completed May 17, 2026, 9:14 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:30 p.m.