Triple
T10995384
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Lester Germer |
E259851
|
entity |
| Predicate | collaboratedWith |
P435
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Clinton Davisson |
E133425
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Clinton Davisson | Statement: [Lester Germer, collaboratedWith, Clinton Davisson]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Clinton Davisson Context triple: [Lester Germer, collaboratedWith, Clinton Davisson]
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A.
Clinton Davisson
chosen
Clinton Davisson was an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known for experimentally demonstrating the wave nature of electrons through the Davisson–Germer experiment.
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B.
Arthur H. Compton
Arthur H. Compton was an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for discovering the Compton effect and for his leadership in early nuclear research.
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C.
Carl David Anderson
Carl David Anderson was an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known for his discovery of the positron and important contributions to particle physics.
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D.
Robert A. Millikan
Robert A. Millikan was an American experimental physicist best known for his oil-drop experiment measuring the electron’s charge and for his Nobel Prize–winning work on the photoelectric effect.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69e374762c748190a8c83f3d6fa7b1d3 |
completed | April 18, 2026, 12:09 p.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:24 p.m.