Triple

T1058279
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Gibbs Medal E22846 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Josiah Willard Gibbs
Josiah Willard Gibbs was an American scientist renowned for his foundational contributions to thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and physical chemistry.
E120298 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: Josiah Willard Gibbs | Statement: [Gibbs Medal, namedAfter, Josiah Willard Gibbs]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Josiah Willard Gibbs
Context triple: [Gibbs Medal, namedAfter, Josiah Willard Gibbs]
  • A. Irving Langmuir
    Irving Langmuir was an American chemist and physicist renowned for his pioneering work in surface chemistry, for which he received the 1932 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
  • B. Rudolf Clausius
    Rudolf Clausius was a 19th-century German physicist and mathematician who was a founding figure of thermodynamics, best known for formulating the second law and introducing the concept of entropy.
  • C. Ludwig Boltzmann
    Ludwig Boltzmann was an Austrian physicist and one of the founders of statistical mechanics, whose work established the statistical nature of thermodynamics and the microscopic interpretation of entropy.
  • D. Percy W. Bridgman
    Percy W. Bridgman was an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in high-pressure physics and for developing the philosophical approach known as operationalism.
  • E. Robert H. Planck
    Robert H. Planck was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films during the mid-20th century.
  • 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: Josiah Willard Gibbs
Triple: [Gibbs Medal, namedAfter, Josiah Willard Gibbs]
Generated description
Josiah Willard Gibbs was an American scientist renowned for his foundational contributions to thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and physical chemistry.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Josiah Willard Gibbs
Target entity description: Josiah Willard Gibbs was an American scientist renowned for his foundational contributions to thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and physical chemistry.
  • A. Irving Langmuir
    Irving Langmuir was an American chemist and physicist renowned for his pioneering work in surface chemistry, for which he received the 1932 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
  • B. Rudolf Clausius
    Rudolf Clausius was a 19th-century German physicist and mathematician who was a founding figure of thermodynamics, best known for formulating the second law and introducing the concept of entropy.
  • C. Ludwig Boltzmann
    Ludwig Boltzmann was an Austrian physicist and one of the founders of statistical mechanics, whose work established the statistical nature of thermodynamics and the microscopic interpretation of entropy.
  • D. Percy W. Bridgman
    Percy W. Bridgman was an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in high-pressure physics and for developing the philosophical approach known as operationalism.
  • E. Robert H. Planck
    Robert H. Planck was an American cinematographer known for his work on numerous Hollywood films during the mid-20th century.
  • 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_69a493dada0481909c43649f9843ea91 completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b8dc9e8c819099fbb192bcf80615 completed March 1, 2026, 10:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac3bd3400c8190b84e88073f19beba completed March 7, 2026, 2:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac3ca9b5d88190816980f964f7e947 completed March 7, 2026, 2:56 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac3d61a0c48190b619b3049df33512 completed March 7, 2026, 2:59 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:42 p.m.