Triple

T11523350
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Kenneth N. Stevens E273221 entity
Predicate name P16 FINISHED
Object Kenneth Noble Stevens
Kenneth Noble Stevens was a pioneering American electrical engineer and acoustician renowned for his foundational work in acoustic phonetics and speech science.
E956479 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: Kenneth Noble Stevens | Statement: [Kenneth N. Stevens, name, Kenneth Noble Stevens]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kenneth Noble Stevens
Context triple: [Kenneth N. Stevens, name, Kenneth Noble Stevens]
  • A. Robert L. Stewart
    Robert L. Stewart is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Army brigadier general best known as one of the first astronauts to perform an untethered spacewalk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit.
  • B. Robert M. Stevens
    Robert M. Stevens is a cinematographer known for his work on feature films, including the romantic comedy "40 Days and 40 Nights."
  • C. Charles Stevenson
    Charles Stevenson was an early 20th-century American film actor known for his roles in silent comedies, including the 1922 film "Grandma's Boy."
  • D. James L. Massey
    James L. Massey was an American information theorist and cryptographer known for his fundamental contributions to coding theory, stream ciphers, and the development of the Berlekamp–Massey algorithm.
  • E. George Stanley
    George Stanley was a Canadian-born poet and educator associated with the San Francisco Renaissance literary movement.
  • 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: Kenneth Noble Stevens
Triple: [Kenneth N. Stevens, name, Kenneth Noble Stevens]
Generated description
Kenneth Noble Stevens was a pioneering American electrical engineer and acoustician renowned for his foundational work in acoustic phonetics and speech science.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Kenneth Noble Stevens
Target entity description: Kenneth Noble Stevens was a pioneering American electrical engineer and acoustician renowned for his foundational work in acoustic phonetics and speech science.
  • A. Robert L. Stewart
    Robert L. Stewart is a former NASA astronaut and U.S. Army brigadier general best known as one of the first astronauts to perform an untethered spacewalk using the Manned Maneuvering Unit.
  • B. Robert M. Stevens
    Robert M. Stevens is a cinematographer known for his work on feature films, including the romantic comedy "40 Days and 40 Nights."
  • C. Charles Stevenson
    Charles Stevenson was an early 20th-century American film actor known for his roles in silent comedies, including the 1922 film "Grandma's Boy."
  • D. James L. Massey
    James L. Massey was an American information theorist and cryptographer known for his fundamental contributions to coding theory, stream ciphers, and the development of the Berlekamp–Massey algorithm.
  • E. George Stanley
    George Stanley was an American sculptor best known for designing the iconic Oscar statuette for the Academy Awards.
  • 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_69d6aae3fbec8190a14632a5df2538b6 completed April 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d87fd26648819083de19bcddf8ad69 completed April 10, 2026, 4:42 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f457b970b88190869cb0b80aca5c4a completed May 1, 2026, 7:35 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f45f86349c81909a806fd7be4008e9 completed May 1, 2026, 8:08 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f4647ee1748190975bce3bbf51a3bc completed May 1, 2026, 8:29 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:37 p.m.