Triple

T1073181
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mildred Dresselhaus E23374 entity
Predicate notableStudent P4838 FINISHED
Object Phaedon Avouris
Phaedon Avouris is a Greek-American physicist and nanoscientist renowned for his pioneering research in carbon nanotubes, graphene, and nanoelectronics.
 E123268 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: Phaedon Avouris | Statement: [Mildred Dresselhaus, notableStudent, Phaedon Avouris]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Phaedon Avouris
Context triple: [Mildred Dresselhaus, notableStudent, Phaedon Avouris]
  • A. Eli Yablonovitch
    Eli Yablonovitch is an American physicist and engineer renowned as a pioneer of photonic crystals and a leading figure in the field of photonics and optoelectronics.
  • B. Andreas Acrivos
    Andreas Acrivos was a prominent Greek-American chemical engineer and fluid dynamicist renowned for his pioneering contributions to transport phenomena and complex fluid flows.
  • C. Joseph Sifakis
    Joseph Sifakis is a Greek-French computer scientist renowned for his pioneering work in formal verification and model checking, for which he received the Turing Award.
  • D. Zhores Alferov
    Zhores Alferov was a Soviet and Russian physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on semiconductor heterostructures, which underpins modern electronics and optoelectronics.
  • E. Nick Holonyak Jr.
    Nick Holonyak Jr. was an American engineer and inventor best known for creating the first practical visible-spectrum LED, earning him recognition as a pioneer in semiconductor lighting technology.
  • 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: Phaedon Avouris
Triple: [Mildred Dresselhaus, notableStudent, Phaedon Avouris]
Generated description
Phaedon Avouris is a Greek-American physicist and nanoscientist renowned for his pioneering research in carbon nanotubes, graphene, and nanoelectronics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Phaedon Avouris
Target entity description: Phaedon Avouris is a Greek-American physicist and nanoscientist renowned for his pioneering research in carbon nanotubes, graphene, and nanoelectronics.
  • A. Eli Yablonovitch
    Eli Yablonovitch is an American physicist and engineer renowned as a pioneer of photonic crystals and a leading figure in the field of photonics and optoelectronics.
  • B. Andreas Acrivos
    Andreas Acrivos was a prominent Greek-American chemical engineer and fluid dynamicist renowned for his pioneering contributions to transport phenomena and complex fluid flows.
  • C. Joseph Sifakis
    Joseph Sifakis is a Greek-French computer scientist renowned for his pioneering work in formal verification and model checking, for which he received the Turing Award.
  • D. Zhores Alferov
    Zhores Alferov was a Soviet and Russian physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on semiconductor heterostructures, which underpins modern electronics and optoelectronics.
  • E. Nick Holonyak Jr.
    Nick Holonyak Jr. was an American engineer and inventor best known for creating the first practical visible-spectrum LED, earning him recognition as a pioneer in semiconductor lighting technology.
  • 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_69a493ee1f908190992b5f0d1b04459b completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b92afad88190b7705923f71fc760 completed March 1, 2026, 10:09 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac42a9af14819091d4f2578c6b1c02 completed March 7, 2026, 3:22 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac434b7ea081909d5608831e29b5a9 completed March 7, 2026, 3:24 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac43b393748190a5fa81b7ab7fa911 completed March 7, 2026, 3:26 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:42 p.m.