Triple

T22783322
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Nordstrom family E563895 entity
Predicate notableMember P10 FINISHED
Object Everett Nordstrom
Everett Nordstrom was an American businessman and co-owner of the Nordstrom department store chain, helping expand it into a major national retailer.
E1555171 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: Everett Nordstrom | Statement: [Nordstrom family, notableMember, Everett Nordstrom]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Everett Nordstrom
Context triple: [Nordstrom family, notableMember, Everett Nordstrom]
  • A. John W. Nordstrom
    John W. Nordstrom was a Swedish-American businessman and co-founder of the Nordstrom department store chain in the United States.
  • B. John E. Nordstrom
    John E. Nordstrom is a composer and musician best known for creating the theme music for the reality television series "Storage Wars."
  • C. Bruce Nordstrom
    Bruce Nordstrom is an American businessman best known as a former chairman and key leader of the Nordstrom department store chain, helping expand it into a major national retailer.
  • D. Erik Nordstrom
    Erik Nordstrom is an American businessman who serves as a top executive and co-president of the Nordstrom department store chain.
  • E. Ogden L. Mills
    Ogden L. Mills was an American lawyer, businessman, and Republican politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury during the early years of the Great Depression.
  • 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: Everett Nordstrom
Triple: [Nordstrom family, notableMember, Everett Nordstrom]
Generated description
Everett Nordstrom was an American businessman and co-owner of the Nordstrom department store chain, helping expand it into a major national retailer.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Everett Nordstrom
Target entity description: Everett Nordstrom was an American businessman and co-owner of the Nordstrom department store chain, helping expand it into a major national retailer.
  • A. John W. Nordstrom
    John W. Nordstrom was a Swedish-American businessman and co-founder of the Nordstrom department store chain in the United States.
  • B. John E. Nordstrom
    John E. Nordstrom is a composer and musician best known for creating the theme music for the reality television series "Storage Wars."
  • C. Bruce Nordstrom
    Bruce Nordstrom is an American businessman best known as a former chairman and key leader of the Nordstrom department store chain, helping expand it into a major national retailer.
  • D. Erik Nordstrom
    Erik Nordstrom is an American businessman who serves as a top executive and co-president of the Nordstrom department store chain.
  • E. Ogden L. Mills
    Ogden L. Mills was an American lawyer, businessman, and Republican politician who served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury during the early years of the Great Depression.
  • 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_69e2455500788190b4b33030461f3bbd completed April 17, 2026, 2:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f17c2ee4e88190951afb2abe69009f completed April 29, 2026, 3:34 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0b9e8eb9148190b292504dd3472af8 completed May 18, 2026, 11:19 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0ba0cf9cdc8190aa95a4e6faf237d9 completed May 18, 2026, 11:29 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0ba1572efc81908899416039a85fd9 completed May 18, 2026, 11:31 p.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:29 p.m.