Triple
T10427651
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Dartmouth BASIC |
E245826
|
entity |
| Predicate | developer |
P73
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Thomas E. Kurtz |
E862854
|
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: Thomas E. Kurtz | Statement: [Dartmouth BASIC, developer, Thomas E. Kurtz]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas E. Kurtz Context triple: [Dartmouth BASIC, developer, Thomas E. Kurtz]
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A.
Thomas E. Kurtz
chosen
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.
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B.
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.
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C.
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.
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D.
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.
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E.
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.
- 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_69d381bf3dc08190bf35a2643e4e8f22 |
completed | April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d4ea4a7dcc81909a830e08656a1c0c |
completed | April 7, 2026, 11:28 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d8dc374f6c8190a44b9da27be343e4 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 11:17 a.m. |
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:12 p.m.