Triple

T22003215
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Palm, Inc. E543383 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Ed Colligan
Ed Colligan is an American technology executive best known as a co-founder and former CEO of Palm, Inc., where he helped popularize early handhelds and smartphones.
E1560189 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: Ed Colligan | Statement: [Palm, Inc., foundedBy, Ed Colligan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ed Colligan
Context triple: [Palm, Inc., foundedBy, Ed Colligan]
  • A. John Colligan
    John Colligan is a golf course architect known for his renovation and design work on courses such as Stevens Park Golf Course.
  • B. Ed McCauley
    Ed McCauley is a Canadian academic and research leader who serves as president of the University of Calgary.
  • C. Ed McLaughlin
    Ed McLaughlin is an American college athletics administrator best known as the athletic director at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU).
  • D. Danny McClellan
    Danny McClellan was an early 20th-century African American pitcher best known for his standout career in Negro league baseball, particularly with the Philadelphia Giants.
  • E. Grant Collier
    Grant Collier is a video game developer best known as a co-founder of Infinity Ward and a key figure behind the early Call of Duty series.
  • 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: Ed Colligan
Triple: [Palm, Inc., foundedBy, Ed Colligan]
Generated description
Ed Colligan is an American technology executive best known as a co-founder and former CEO of Palm, Inc., where he helped popularize early handhelds and smartphones.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ed Colligan
Target entity description: Ed Colligan is an American technology executive best known as a co-founder and former CEO of Palm, Inc., where he helped popularize early handhelds and smartphones.
  • A. John Colligan
    John Colligan is a golf course architect known for his renovation and design work on courses such as Stevens Park Golf Course.
  • B. Ed McCauley
    Ed McCauley is a Canadian academic and research leader who serves as president of the University of Calgary.
  • C. Ed McLaughlin
    Ed McLaughlin is an American college athletics administrator best known as the athletic director at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU).
  • D. Danny McClellan
    Danny McClellan was an early 20th-century African American pitcher best known for his standout career in Negro league baseball, particularly with the Philadelphia Giants.
  • E. Grant Collier
    Grant Collier is a video game developer best known as a co-founder of Infinity Ward and a key figure behind the early Call of Duty series.
  • 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_69e11e2c814c8190837d072789000486 completed April 16, 2026, 5:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f1276cab5c8190ac1236fde7e0394a completed April 28, 2026, 9:32 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0bb9a644ac81908759165afee762d1 completed May 19, 2026, 1:15 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0bbb59ff98819081ccb651f6a1d154 completed May 19, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0bbc15b59c8190b918d551b1fb3230 completed May 19, 2026, 1:25 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:20 p.m.