Triple

T23164084
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hess's E578666 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Max Hess Sr.
Max Hess Sr. was an American businessman best known as the founder of the Hess's department store chain.
 E1572808 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: Max Hess Sr. | Statement: [Hess's, foundedBy, Max Hess Sr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Max Hess Sr.
Context triple: [Hess's, foundedBy, Max Hess Sr.]
  • A. Julius Hirsch
    Julius Hirsch was a German Jewish footballer for Karlsruher FV and the national team who became one of the first prominent Jewish victims of the Holocaust in German sports history.
  • B. Gunther Hessenheffer
    Gunther Hessenheffer is a flamboyant, eccentric European teen dancer and one of the central comedic characters on the Disney Channel series "Shake It Up."
  • C. Fritz Eisel
    Fritz Eisel was a German painter and graphic artist associated with East German art and known for his murals and public works.
  • D. Christian Heurich
    Christian Heurich was a prominent German-American brewer and businessman in Washington, D.C., best known for founding the Christian Heurich Brewing Company and for his historic mansion that now serves as the Heurich House Museum.
  • E. Hans Glaser
    Hans Glaser was a prospector credited with the discovery of Norway’s rich Kongsberg Silver Mines in the early 17th century.
  • 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: Max Hess Sr.
Triple: [Hess's, foundedBy, Max Hess Sr.]
Generated description
Max Hess Sr. was an American businessman best known as the founder of the Hess's department store chain.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Max Hess Sr.
Target entity description: Max Hess Sr. was an American businessman best known as the founder of the Hess's department store chain.
  • A. Julius Hirsch
    Julius Hirsch was a German Jewish footballer for Karlsruher FV and the national team who became one of the first prominent Jewish victims of the Holocaust in German sports history.
  • B. Gunther Hessenheffer
    Gunther Hessenheffer is a flamboyant, eccentric European teen dancer and one of the central comedic characters on the Disney Channel series "Shake It Up."
  • C. Fritz Eisel
    Fritz Eisel was a German painter and graphic artist associated with East German art and known for his murals and public works.
  • D. Christian Heurich
    Christian Heurich was a prominent German-American brewer and businessman in Washington, D.C., best known for founding the Christian Heurich Brewing Company and for his historic mansion that now serves as the Heurich House Museum.
  • E. Hans Glaser
    Hans Glaser was a prospector credited with the discovery of Norway’s rich Kongsberg Silver Mines in the early 17th century.
  • 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_69e245fc75348190a0288401044c8af8 completed April 17, 2026, 2:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f18f2b0414819081f9c2d6b8c88421 completed April 29, 2026, 4:55 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c30a4760881908b4e306b896df80e completed May 19, 2026, 9:43 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0c32ab76988190917b76806a6c2c80 completed May 19, 2026, 9:51 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0c3335e83c8190a9bee47e86215c05 completed May 19, 2026, 9:53 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 4:02 p.m.