Triple

T22593630
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Principal Financial Group E565014 entity
Predicate foundedAs P364 FINISHED
Object Bankers Life Association
Bankers Life Association was an early life insurance organization that served as the predecessor to what is now Principal Financial Group.
E1546497 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: Bankers Life Association | Statement: [Principal Financial Group, foundedAs, Bankers Life Association]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bankers Life Association
Context triple: [Principal Financial Group, foundedAs, Bankers Life Association]
  • A. Bankers Life and Casualty Company
    Bankers Life and Casualty Company is a major American insurance company best known for its life and health insurance products and for having been owned and expanded by businessman John D. MacArthur.
  • B. New York Life Insurance Company
    New York Life Insurance Company is one of the largest and oldest mutual life insurance companies in the United States, offering a range of insurance and financial products.
  • C. Jackson National Life Insurance Company
    Jackson National Life Insurance Company is a major U.S.-based provider of retirement and annuity products, known for its significant presence in the financial services industry.
  • D. Liberty National Life Insurance Company
    Liberty National Life Insurance Company is a U.S.-based life and supplemental health insurance provider operating as a subsidiary of Globe Life.
  • E. Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company
    Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company is a long-established American life insurance firm known for providing a range of life and financial protection products.
  • 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: Bankers Life Association
Triple: [Principal Financial Group, foundedAs, Bankers Life Association]
Generated description
Bankers Life Association was an early life insurance organization that served as the predecessor to what is now Principal Financial Group.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bankers Life Association
Target entity description: Bankers Life Association was an early life insurance organization that served as the predecessor to what is now Principal Financial Group.
  • A. Bankers Life and Casualty Company
    Bankers Life and Casualty Company is a major American insurance company best known for its life and health insurance products and for having been owned and expanded by businessman John D. MacArthur.
  • B. New York Life Insurance Company
    New York Life Insurance Company is one of the largest and oldest mutual life insurance companies in the United States, offering a range of insurance and financial products.
  • C. Jackson National Life Insurance Company
    Jackson National Life Insurance Company is a major U.S.-based provider of retirement and annuity products, known for its significant presence in the financial services industry.
  • D. Liberty National Life Insurance Company
    Liberty National Life Insurance Company is a U.S.-based life and supplemental health insurance provider operating as a subsidiary of Globe Life.
  • E. Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company
    Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company is a long-established American life insurance firm known for providing a range of life and financial protection products.
  • 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_69e245836014819091b91ed3074742a3 completed April 17, 2026, 2:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f16163cb248190b377b110d80a6730 completed April 29, 2026, 1:39 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0b4df377bc819081af889a14887884 completed May 18, 2026, 5:35 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0b51e5b7a0819098f9b93051c27ca2 completed May 18, 2026, 5:52 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0b529631048190ae49bb7ca38d669e completed May 18, 2026, 5:55 p.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 2:49 p.m.