Triple

T1128407
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Davy Medal E24772 entity
Predicate notableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Harry Kroto
Harry Kroto was a British chemist and Nobel laureate best known for co-discovering the carbon molecule buckminsterfullerene (C60), a key advance in the field of nanotechnology and carbon chemistry.
E129865 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: Harry Kroto | Statement: [Davy Medal, notableRecipient, Harry Kroto]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harry Kroto
Context triple: [Davy Medal, notableRecipient, Harry Kroto]
  • A. Christopher Longuet-Higgins
    Christopher Longuet-Higgins was a British theoretical chemist and cognitive scientist known for his influential work in artificial intelligence and the study of human perception and cognition.
  • B. Hugh Longuet-Higgins
    Hugh Longuet-Higgins was a British mathematician and academic, known primarily as the father of theoretical chemist and cognitive scientist Christopher Longuet-Higgins.
  • C. David W. C. MacMillan
    David W. C. MacMillan is a Scottish-born chemist renowned for pioneering organocatalysis, work that earned him the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
  • D. Derek H. R. Barton
    Derek H. R. Barton was a Nobel Prize–winning British chemist renowned for his pioneering work in conformational analysis and major contributions to organic chemistry.
  • E. John Polanyi
    John Polanyi is a Canadian chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in chemical kinetics and reaction dynamics.
  • 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: Harry Kroto
Triple: [Davy Medal, notableRecipient, Harry Kroto]
Generated description
Harry Kroto was a British chemist and Nobel laureate best known for co-discovering the carbon molecule buckminsterfullerene (C60), a key advance in the field of nanotechnology and carbon chemistry.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harry Kroto
Target entity description: Harry Kroto was a British chemist and Nobel laureate best known for co-discovering the carbon molecule buckminsterfullerene (C60), a key advance in the field of nanotechnology and carbon chemistry.
  • A. Christopher Longuet-Higgins
    Christopher Longuet-Higgins was a British theoretical chemist and cognitive scientist known for his influential work in artificial intelligence and the study of human perception and cognition.
  • B. Hugh Longuet-Higgins
    Hugh Longuet-Higgins was a British mathematician and academic, known primarily as the father of theoretical chemist and cognitive scientist Christopher Longuet-Higgins.
  • C. David W. C. MacMillan
    David W. C. MacMillan is a Scottish-born chemist renowned for pioneering organocatalysis, work that earned him the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
  • D. Derek H. R. Barton
    Derek H. R. Barton was a Nobel Prize–winning British chemist renowned for his pioneering work in conformational analysis and major contributions to organic chemistry.
  • E. John Polanyi
    John Polanyi is a Canadian chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in chemical kinetics and reaction dynamics.
  • 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_69a4940712c88190aa244f3fc6070a65 completed March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bbdea9b88190a88da718bf5c1897 completed March 1, 2026, 10:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac59a82bb8819084f77aff9af653c0 completed March 7, 2026, 5 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac5a97f1408190855d8ea4f4317b07 completed March 7, 2026, 5:04 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac5b1b5930819098f511db269e991d completed March 7, 2026, 5:06 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:44 p.m.