Triple

T10105968
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology E216322 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Selman A. Waksman
Selman A. Waksman was a pioneering microbiologist and biochemist best known for discovering the antibiotic streptomycin and laying the foundations of modern antibiotic therapy.
E841968 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: Selman A. Waksman | Statement: [Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology, namedAfter, Selman A. Waksman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Selman A. Waksman
Context triple: [Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology, namedAfter, Selman A. Waksman]
  • A. Joshua Lederberg
    Joshua Lederberg was an American molecular biologist and geneticist renowned for his pioneering work in bacterial genetics, which earned him a share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
  • B. Oswald Avery
    Oswald Avery was a Canadian-American physician and molecular biologist best known for demonstrating that DNA is the material responsible for heredity.
  • C. Alexander R. Todd
    Alexander R. Todd was a Scottish biochemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the chemistry of nucleotides and nucleic acids.
  • D. George H. Hitchings
    George H. Hitchings was an American biochemist and pharmacologist who pioneered the development of important chemotherapy and antiviral drugs, work for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
  • E. Alexander Fleming
    Alexander Fleming was a Scottish bacteriologist best known for discovering the antibiotic substance penicillin in 1928, a breakthrough that revolutionized modern medicine.
  • 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: Selman A. Waksman
Triple: [Selman A. Waksman Award in Microbiology, namedAfter, Selman A. Waksman]
Generated description
Selman A. Waksman was a pioneering microbiologist and biochemist best known for discovering the antibiotic streptomycin and laying the foundations of modern antibiotic therapy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Selman A. Waksman
Target entity description: Selman A. Waksman was a pioneering microbiologist and biochemist best known for discovering the antibiotic streptomycin and laying the foundations of modern antibiotic therapy.
  • A. Joshua Lederberg
    Joshua Lederberg was an American molecular biologist and geneticist renowned for his pioneering work in bacterial genetics, which earned him a share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
  • B. Oswald Avery
    Oswald Avery was a Canadian-American physician and molecular biologist best known for demonstrating that DNA is the material responsible for heredity.
  • C. Alexander R. Todd
    Alexander R. Todd was a Scottish biochemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the chemistry of nucleotides and nucleic acids.
  • D. George H. Hitchings
    George H. Hitchings was an American biochemist and pharmacologist who pioneered the development of important chemotherapy and antiviral drugs, work for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
  • E. Alexander Fleming
    Alexander Fleming was a Scottish bacteriologist best known for discovering the antibiotic substance penicillin in 1928, a breakthrough that revolutionized modern medicine.
  • 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_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_69d2cc0572e08190a8ef4d620ac27d88 completed April 5, 2026, 8:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d2cd8d611c81909085b3290eb54d16 completed April 5, 2026, 9:01 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d2ce686da48190b32a2053b94f1d48 completed April 5, 2026, 9:04 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 9:03 p.m.