Triple

T10995367
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lester Germer E259851 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Germer
Germer is a surname most notably associated with American physicist Lester Germer, known for his role in demonstrating the wave nature of electrons.
 E898731 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: Germer | Statement: [Lester Germer, familyName, Germer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Germer
Context triple: [Lester Germer, familyName, Germer]
  • A. Slichter
    Slichter is a surname most notably associated with American physicist Charles P. Slichter, renowned for his pioneering work in nuclear magnetic resonance.
  • B. Lindemann
    Lindemann is a German surname most notably associated with Ferdinand von Lindemann, the mathematician who proved that π is a transcendental number.
  • C. Barkla
    Barkla is a surname most notably associated with Charles Glover Barkla, the British physicist and Nobel laureate recognized for his work on X-ray spectroscopy.
  • D. Geissler
    Geissler is a character in Knut Hamsun’s novel "Growth of the Soil," serving as a former land surveyor whose shrewdness and intermittent interventions significantly influence the fate of the rural community.
  • E. Gerlach
    Gerlach is a small, remote community in northwestern Nevada best known as the gateway to the Black Rock Desert and the annual Burning Man festival.
  • 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: Germer
Triple: [Lester Germer, familyName, Germer]
Generated description
Germer is a surname most notably associated with American physicist Lester Germer, known for his role in demonstrating the wave nature of electrons.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Germer
Target entity description: Germer is a surname most notably associated with American physicist Lester Germer, known for his role in demonstrating the wave nature of electrons.
  • A. Slichter
    Slichter is a surname most notably associated with American physicist Charles P. Slichter, renowned for his pioneering work in nuclear magnetic resonance.
  • B. Lindemann
    Lindemann is a German surname most notably associated with Ferdinand von Lindemann, the mathematician who proved that π is a transcendental number.
  • C. Barkla
    Barkla is a surname most notably associated with Charles Glover Barkla, the British physicist and Nobel laureate recognized for his work on X-ray spectroscopy.
  • D. Geissler
    Geissler is a character in Knut Hamsun’s novel "Growth of the Soil," serving as a former land surveyor whose shrewdness and intermittent interventions significantly influence the fate of the rural community.
  • E. Gerlach
    Gerlach is a small, remote community in northwestern Nevada best known as the gateway to the Black Rock Desert and the annual Burning Man festival.
  • 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.