Triple
T10105944
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Carl Woese |
E216320
|
entity |
| Predicate | doctoralAdvisor |
P167
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Ernest C. Pollard |
E567803
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Ernest C. Pollard | Statement: [Carl Woese, doctoralAdvisor, Ernest C. Pollard]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ernest C. Pollard Context triple: [Carl Woese, doctoralAdvisor, Ernest C. Pollard]
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A.
Ernest C. Pollard
chosen
Ernest C. Pollard was a British-born American physicist and biophysicist known for his work in nuclear physics and for mentoring influential scientists, including microbiologist Carl Woese.
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B.
Ferdinand L. Barnett
Ferdinand L. Barnett was an African American lawyer, journalist, and civil rights activist in Chicago who founded the influential black newspaper The Conservator and worked prominently for racial justice in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
Edmund G. Ross
Edmund G. Ross was a 19th-century U.S. senator from Kansas best known for casting the decisive vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, an act later celebrated in John F. Kennedy’s "Profiles in Courage."
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D.
Herbert M. Dawley
Herbert M. Dawley was an early 20th-century American filmmaker and special effects pioneer known for his work on prehistoric-themed fantasy films.
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E.
George T. Brown
George T. Brown was an American businessman best known as a founder of the Brown & Williamson tobacco company, which became one of the major U.S. cigarette manufacturers.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ca83d039f08190b9d10363221c69fb |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:08 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cdd0c8a0408190be886ec1013a5208 |
completed | April 2, 2026, 2:13 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f69b76e0cc8190aa7303347e0183d4 |
completed | May 3, 2026, 12:48 a.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 9:03 p.m.