Triple

T10995365
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lester Germer E259851 entity
Predicate name P16 FINISHED
Object Lester Halbert Germer
Lester Halbert Germer was an American physicist best known for co-discovering electron diffraction in the Davisson–Germer experiment, which confirmed the wave nature of electrons.
E898730 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: Lester Halbert Germer | Statement: [Lester Germer, name, Lester Halbert Germer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lester Halbert Germer
Context triple: [Lester Germer, name, Lester Halbert Germer]
  • A. Murray Feshbach
    Murray Feshbach was an American demographer and scholar known for his pioneering research on Soviet and Russian population, public health, and environmental issues.
  • B. Herman Feshbach
    Herman Feshbach was an influential American theoretical physicist known for his work in nuclear physics and his long association with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  • C. John Plamenatz
    John Plamenatz was a prominent 20th-century political philosopher, best known for his influential work on political obligation, liberalism, and the interpretation of classic political theorists.
  • D. Edward Levi
    Edward Levi was an American legal scholar and former president of the University of Chicago who served as U.S. Attorney General, where he is credited with restoring integrity to the Justice Department after the Watergate scandal.
  • E. David Hirschfelder
    David Hirschfelder is an Australian composer and musician best known for his acclaimed film scores and work on major international movies.
  • 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: Lester Halbert Germer
Triple: [Lester Germer, name, Lester Halbert Germer]
Generated description
Lester Halbert Germer was an American physicist best known for co-discovering electron diffraction in the Davisson–Germer experiment, which confirmed the wave nature of electrons.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Lester Halbert Germer
Target entity description: Lester Halbert Germer was an American physicist best known for co-discovering electron diffraction in the Davisson–Germer experiment, which confirmed the wave nature of electrons.
  • A. Murray Feshbach
    Murray Feshbach was an American demographer and scholar known for his pioneering research on Soviet and Russian population, public health, and environmental issues.
  • B. Herman Feshbach
    Herman Feshbach was an influential American theoretical physicist known for his work in nuclear physics and his long association with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  • C. John Plamenatz
    John Plamenatz was a prominent 20th-century political philosopher, best known for his influential work on political obligation, liberalism, and the interpretation of classic political theorists.
  • D. Edward Levi
    Edward Levi was an American legal scholar and former president of the University of Chicago who served as U.S. Attorney General, where he is credited with restoring integrity to the Justice Department after the Watergate scandal.
  • E. David Hirschfelder
    David Hirschfelder is an Australian composer and musician best known for his acclaimed film scores and work on major international movies.
  • 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_69d6aa8a6a548190a750f944ccdc8064 completed April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d795d59ebc8190baff1f50bdc46c1b completed April 9, 2026, 12:04 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e3452420c08190b9c91a9c8a807670 completed April 18, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e3556fd3548190a33f04604be947cf completed April 18, 2026, 9:57 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e3593b0f8481909ed7a90f8bb9839d completed April 18, 2026, 10:13 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:24 p.m.