Triple

T10162358
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Scientific Basis E233920 entity
Predicate hasEditor P1954 FINISHED
Object J. T. Houghton
J. T. Houghton was a prominent British atmospheric physicist and leading climate scientist who co-chaired the IPCC and played a key role in shaping global understanding of climate change.
E851054 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: J. T. Houghton | Statement: [The Scientific Basis, hasEditor, J. T. Houghton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J. T. Houghton
Context triple: [The Scientific Basis, hasEditor, J. T. Houghton]
  • A. James R. Holton
    James R. Holton was a prominent American atmospheric scientist renowned for his fundamental contributions to dynamical meteorology and atmospheric circulation theory.
  • B. Phil Jones
    Phil Jones is an American drummer best known for his work with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and on Tom Petty’s solo recordings.
  • C. William M. Hartmann
    William M. Hartmann is an American physicist and psychoacoustician known for his influential research on auditory perception and acoustics.
  • D. Richard W. Smith
    Richard W. Smith is a member of the Smith family best known as a son of FedEx founder Frederick W. Smith.
  • E. Robert N. Fitch
    Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
  • 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: J. T. Houghton
Triple: [The Scientific Basis, hasEditor, J. T. Houghton]
Generated description
J. T. Houghton was a prominent British atmospheric physicist and leading climate scientist who co-chaired the IPCC and played a key role in shaping global understanding of climate change.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J. T. Houghton
Target entity description: J. T. Houghton was a prominent British atmospheric physicist and leading climate scientist who co-chaired the IPCC and played a key role in shaping global understanding of climate change.
  • A. James R. Holton
    James R. Holton was a prominent American atmospheric scientist renowned for his fundamental contributions to dynamical meteorology and atmospheric circulation theory.
  • B. Phil Jones
    Phil Jones is an American drummer best known for his work with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and on Tom Petty’s solo recordings.
  • C. William M. Hartmann
    William M. Hartmann is an American physicist and psychoacoustician known for his influential research on auditory perception and acoustics.
  • D. Richard W. Smith
    Richard W. Smith is a member of the Smith family best known as a son of FedEx founder Frederick W. Smith.
  • E. Robert N. Fitch
    Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
  • 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_69ca848e80748190b91d1e04d35512c7 completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cdec5b5194819095645e9174897b0f completed April 2, 2026, 4:11 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d6f6d9da9c8190b77c248fb3731f30 completed April 9, 2026, 12:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d6fa2bb2ec8190aa099988a6c225eb completed April 9, 2026, 1 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d6fd10dbc08190a297073e1b737566 completed April 9, 2026, 1:12 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 9:09 p.m.