Triple

T1091573
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal E24174 entity
Predicate hasRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Gottfried Ungerboeck
Gottfried Ungerboeck is an electrical engineer best known for pioneering trellis-coded modulation, a breakthrough in digital communications that significantly improved data transmission reliability and efficiency.
E127416 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: Gottfried Ungerboeck | Statement: [IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, hasRecipient, Gottfried Ungerboeck]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gottfried Ungerboeck
Context triple: [IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, hasRecipient, Gottfried Ungerboeck]
  • A. Andrew Viterbi
    Andrew Viterbi is an Italian-American engineer and co-founder of Qualcomm best known for inventing the Viterbi algorithm, a fundamental method used in digital communication and error correction.
  • B. Richard W. Hamming
    Richard W. Hamming was an influential American mathematician and computer scientist best known for pioneering work in error-correcting codes and numerical methods.
  • C. Harald Welte
    Harald Welte is a German free software developer and activist best known for his work on Linux kernel networking and for pioneering the legal enforcement of the GNU General Public License.
  • D. Claude Shannon
    Claude Shannon was an American mathematician and electrical engineer known as the "father of information theory" for founding the mathematical framework underlying digital communication and data compression.
  • E. Hendrik Wade Bode
    Hendrik Wade Bode was an American engineer and scientist renowned for his pioneering contributions to control theory, communication systems, and feedback amplifier design.
  • 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: Gottfried Ungerboeck
Triple: [IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, hasRecipient, Gottfried Ungerboeck]
Generated description
Gottfried Ungerboeck is an electrical engineer best known for pioneering trellis-coded modulation, a breakthrough in digital communications that significantly improved data transmission reliability and efficiency.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gottfried Ungerboeck
Target entity description: Gottfried Ungerboeck is an electrical engineer best known for pioneering trellis-coded modulation, a breakthrough in digital communications that significantly improved data transmission reliability and efficiency.
  • A. Andrew Viterbi
    Andrew Viterbi is an Italian-American engineer and co-founder of Qualcomm best known for inventing the Viterbi algorithm, a fundamental method used in digital communication and error correction.
  • B. Richard W. Hamming
    Richard W. Hamming was an influential American mathematician and computer scientist best known for pioneering work in error-correcting codes and numerical methods.
  • C. Harald Welte
    Harald Welte is a German free software developer and activist best known for his work on Linux kernel networking and for pioneering the legal enforcement of the GNU General Public License.
  • D. Claude Shannon
    Claude Shannon was an American mathematician and electrical engineer known as the "father of information theory" for founding the mathematical framework underlying digital communication and data compression.
  • E. Hendrik Wade Bode
    Hendrik Wade Bode was an American engineer and scientist renowned for his pioneering contributions to control theory, communication systems, and feedback amplifier design.
  • 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_69a49404428c819092dcc9632f5f7b8b completed March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b982018481908b222df095e318c0 completed March 1, 2026, 10:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac538cd45c8190bcab18ce4e281e72 completed March 7, 2026, 4:34 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac53f04ad081908f1536f17e65f633 completed March 7, 2026, 4:36 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac54971fc88190b009a05180f10cf5 completed March 7, 2026, 4:38 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:42 p.m.