Triple

T10427038
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code E245814 entity
Predicate designedBy P184 FINISHED
Object Thomas E. Kurtz
Thomas E. Kurtz is an American computer scientist best known as the co-creator of the BASIC programming language, which helped make computing accessible to students and non-specialists.
E862854 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: Thomas E. Kurtz | Statement: [Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, designedBy, Thomas E. Kurtz]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas E. Kurtz
Context triple: [Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, designedBy, Thomas E. Kurtz]
  • A. John G. Kemeny
    John G. Kemeny was a Hungarian-American mathematician and computer scientist best known as the co-inventor of the BASIC programming language and a pioneering advocate of time-sharing and accessible computing.
  • B. John Backus
    John Backus was an American computer scientist best known for leading the development of the Fortran programming language and contributing foundational work to programming language design and formal notation.
  • C. Fernando J. Corbató
    Fernando J. Corbató was an American computer scientist best known for pioneering time-sharing operating systems and helping to lay the foundations of modern interactive computing.
  • D. John Simon Ritchie
    John Simon Ritchie, better known as Sid Vicious, was the bassist of the pioneering English punk rock band the Sex Pistols and an icon of the 1970s punk movement.
  • E. Kenneth Harry Olsen
    Kenneth Harry Olsen was an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and longtime president of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), a pioneering company in the minicomputer industry.
  • 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: Thomas E. Kurtz
Triple: [Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code, designedBy, Thomas E. Kurtz]
Generated description
Thomas E. Kurtz is an American computer scientist best known as the co-creator of the BASIC programming language, which helped make computing accessible to students and non-specialists.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas E. Kurtz
Target entity description: Thomas E. Kurtz is an American computer scientist best known as the co-creator of the BASIC programming language, which helped make computing accessible to students and non-specialists.
  • A. John G. Kemeny
    John G. Kemeny was a Hungarian-American mathematician and computer scientist best known as the co-inventor of the BASIC programming language and a pioneering advocate of time-sharing and accessible computing.
  • B. John Backus
    John Backus was an American computer scientist best known for leading the development of the Fortran programming language and contributing foundational work to programming language design and formal notation.
  • C. Fernando J. Corbató
    Fernando J. Corbató was an American computer scientist best known for pioneering time-sharing operating systems and helping to lay the foundations of modern interactive computing.
  • D. John Simon Ritchie
    John Simon Ritchie, better known as Sid Vicious, was the bassist of the pioneering English punk rock band the Sex Pistols and an icon of the 1970s punk movement.
  • E. Kenneth Harry Olsen
    Kenneth Harry Olsen was an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder and longtime president of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), a pioneering company in the minicomputer industry.
  • 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_69d381bf3dc08190bf35a2643e4e8f22 completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d4ea498ab08190b451c0b257c0711b completed April 7, 2026, 11:28 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d87ea554888190bf2ef31e33c0ff14 completed April 10, 2026, 4:37 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d8837e70508190b03e8983b2617eac completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d889cc40648190a1d80b955e676ea5 completed April 10, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:12 p.m.