Triple

T9135025
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Vans E219178 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Paul Van Doren
Paul Van Doren was an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the Vans footwear and apparel brand, which became iconic in skate and street culture.
 E788115 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: Paul Van Doren | Statement: [Vans, foundedBy, Paul Van Doren]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Paul Van Doren
Context triple: [Vans, foundedBy, Paul Van Doren]
  • A. Philip Bruns
    Philip Bruns was an American character actor best known for his television and film roles in the 1970s and 1980s, including his work on the satirical soap opera "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman."
  • B. Paul Madvig
    Paul Madvig is the politically connected fixer and central protagonist of the 1942 film noir "The Glass Key," navigating corruption, loyalty, and murder in a tense urban underworld.
  • C. Robert Dorer
    Robert Dorer was a sculptor best known for creating the National Monument of Geneva in Switzerland.
  • D. John Easterling
    John Easterling is an American businessman and environmental entrepreneur best known as the husband of singer and actress Olivia Newton-John and as the founder of the Amazon Herb Company.
  • E. Paul Jesperson
    Paul Jesperson is an American former college basketball player best known for his memorable half-court buzzer-beater in the 2016 NCAA Tournament while playing for the Northern Iowa Panthers.
  • 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: Paul Van Doren
Triple: [Vans, foundedBy, Paul Van Doren]
Generated description
Paul Van Doren was an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the Vans footwear and apparel brand, which became iconic in skate and street culture.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Paul Van Doren
Target entity description: Paul Van Doren was an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the Vans footwear and apparel brand, which became iconic in skate and street culture.
  • A. Philip Bruns
    Philip Bruns was an American character actor best known for his television and film roles in the 1970s and 1980s, including his work on the satirical soap opera "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman."
  • B. Paul Madvig
    Paul Madvig is the politically connected fixer and central protagonist of the 1942 film noir "The Glass Key," navigating corruption, loyalty, and murder in a tense urban underworld.
  • C. Robert Dorer
    Robert Dorer was a sculptor best known for creating the National Monument of Geneva in Switzerland.
  • D. John Easterling
    John Easterling is an American businessman and environmental entrepreneur best known as the husband of singer and actress Olivia Newton-John and as the founder of the Amazon Herb Company.
  • E. Paul Jesperson
    Paul Jesperson is an American former college basketball player best known for his memorable half-court buzzer-beater in the 2016 NCAA Tournament while playing for the Northern Iowa Panthers.
  • 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_69ca83e012288190a5771058adbaabd2 completed March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cca8de0dec8190978c80b9ec8bf25c completed April 1, 2026, 5:10 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d09b75186c8190849f86b7e26093f1 completed April 4, 2026, 5:02 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d09cf11e488190b61f4a61002454e6 completed April 4, 2026, 5:09 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d09e2069048190ac22b738fa324771 completed April 4, 2026, 5:14 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:18 p.m.