Triple

T11857218
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thinking Machines Corporation WAIS project E282069 entity
Predicate basedOn P98 FINISHED
Object Wide Area Information Servers
Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS) is an early networked information retrieval system and protocol that enabled users to search and access distributed databases over the internet.
 E951649 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: Wide Area Information Servers | Statement: [Thinking Machines Corporation WAIS project, basedOn, Wide Area Information Servers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Wide Area Information Servers
Context triple: [Thinking Machines Corporation WAIS project, basedOn, Wide Area Information Servers]
  • A. Xanadu hypertext system
    The Xanadu hypertext system is an early, visionary hypertext project conceived by Ted Nelson that aimed to create a universal, bidirectionally linked, non-destructive document publishing and versioning system.
  • B. Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One
    Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One is a W3C-authored technical document that defines the foundational principles and design of the Web’s architecture.
  • C. Proceedings of the Seventh International World Wide Web Conference
    Proceedings of the Seventh International World Wide Web Conference is a collected volume of peer-reviewed research papers from a major early web conference that helped shape the foundations of web technologies and search engines.
  • D. WIDE Project
    WIDE Project is a Japanese research initiative focused on developing and operating advanced Internet infrastructure and technologies.
  • E. World Wide Web
    The World Wide Web is a global system of interlinked hypertext documents and resources accessed via the internet, enabling users worldwide to browse, share, and interact with information through web browsers.
  • 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: Wide Area Information Servers
Triple: [Thinking Machines Corporation WAIS project, basedOn, Wide Area Information Servers]
Generated description
Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS) is an early networked information retrieval system and protocol that enabled users to search and access distributed databases over the internet.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Wide Area Information Servers
Target entity description: Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS) is an early networked information retrieval system and protocol that enabled users to search and access distributed databases over the internet.
  • A. Xanadu hypertext system
    The Xanadu hypertext system is an early, visionary hypertext project conceived by Ted Nelson that aimed to create a universal, bidirectionally linked, non-destructive document publishing and versioning system.
  • B. Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One
    Architecture of the World Wide Web, Volume One is a W3C-authored technical document that defines the foundational principles and design of the Web’s architecture.
  • C. Proceedings of the Seventh International World Wide Web Conference
    Proceedings of the Seventh International World Wide Web Conference is a collected volume of peer-reviewed research papers from a major early web conference that helped shape the foundations of web technologies and search engines.
  • D. WIDE Project
    WIDE Project is a Japanese research initiative focused on developing and operating advanced Internet infrastructure and technologies.
  • E. World Wide Web
    The World Wide Web is a global system of interlinked hypertext documents and resources accessed via the internet, enabling users worldwide to browse, share, and interact with information through web browsers.
  • 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_69d6ab287ba48190a5178779fd19b9b7 completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8a699089c8190b7a298baf13dcded completed April 10, 2026, 7:28 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f2816404ac81909129347607fb5fd3 completed April 29, 2026, 10:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f28d363cac8190b961f17245db493c completed April 29, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f29150bf508190bdf037d40e445e6d completed April 29, 2026, 11:16 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:43 p.m.