Triple

T1135736
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Priestley Medal E23134 entity
Predicate hasRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object George M. Whitesides
George M. Whitesides is a prominent American chemist renowned for his pioneering work in materials science, surface chemistry, and microfabrication, and for his extensive influence on modern chemistry and nanotechnology.
 E151721 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: George M. Whitesides | Statement: [Priestley Medal, hasRecipient, George M. Whitesides]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: George M. Whitesides
Context triple: [Priestley Medal, hasRecipient, George M. Whitesides]
  • A. Barry M. Trost
    Barry M. Trost is an American organic chemist renowned for pioneering the concept of atom economy and developing highly efficient catalytic reactions in synthetic chemistry.
  • B. Stephen L. Buchwald
    Stephen L. Buchwald is an American chemist renowned for pioneering palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions that revolutionized modern organic synthesis and pharmaceutical chemistry.
  • 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. Peter B. Dervan
    Peter B. Dervan is an American chemist renowned for pioneering work in bioorganic chemistry, particularly the design of small molecules that recognize and bind specific DNA sequences.
  • E. Ronald Breslow
    Ronald Breslow was a prominent American chemist renowned for his pioneering work in biomimetic chemistry and for major contributions to organic reaction mechanisms and vitamin B₁ chemistry.
  • 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: George M. Whitesides
Triple: [Priestley Medal, hasRecipient, George M. Whitesides]
Generated description
George M. Whitesides is a prominent American chemist renowned for his pioneering work in materials science, surface chemistry, and microfabrication, and for his extensive influence on modern chemistry and nanotechnology.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: George M. Whitesides
Target entity description: George M. Whitesides is a prominent American chemist renowned for his pioneering work in materials science, surface chemistry, and microfabrication, and for his extensive influence on modern chemistry and nanotechnology.
  • A. Barry M. Trost
    Barry M. Trost is an American organic chemist renowned for pioneering the concept of atom economy and developing highly efficient catalytic reactions in synthetic chemistry.
  • B. Stephen L. Buchwald
    Stephen L. Buchwald is an American chemist renowned for pioneering palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions that revolutionized modern organic synthesis and pharmaceutical chemistry.
  • 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. Peter B. Dervan
    Peter B. Dervan is an American chemist renowned for pioneering work in bioorganic chemistry, particularly the design of small molecules that recognize and bind specific DNA sequences.
  • E. Ronald Breslow
    Ronald Breslow was a prominent American chemist renowned for his pioneering work in biomimetic chemistry and for major contributions to organic reaction mechanisms and vitamin B₁ chemistry.
  • 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_69a493ec75988190b63a11bafaec29b4 completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bc2300c481908c60fbb1188c37c5 completed March 1, 2026, 10:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acbf13304881908aa74d92ef7b1c86 completed March 8, 2026, 12:13 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acbf873544819099d3dff98a6b2244 completed March 8, 2026, 12:15 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69acc06483b08190b5b29f684b83f43f completed March 8, 2026, 12:18 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:44 p.m.