Triple

T12014665
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thom–Mather stratification E285993 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object John N. Mather
John N. Mather was an American mathematician renowned for his foundational work in dynamical systems, singularity theory, and the development of Mather theory in Hamiltonian dynamics.
E960692 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: John N. Mather | Statement: [Thom–Mather stratification, namedAfter, John N. Mather]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John N. Mather
Context triple: [Thom–Mather stratification, namedAfter, John N. Mather]
  • A. John C. Mather
    John C. Mather is an American astrophysicist and cosmologist, Nobel Prize laureate, and a leading scientist behind NASA’s Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) mission that helped confirm the Big Bang theory.
  • B. Neil Gehrels
    Neil Gehrels was an influential American astrophysicist known for his pioneering work in gamma-ray astronomy and leadership of major space observatory missions.
  • C. Willis E. Davidge
    Willis E. Davidge is a human fighter pilot who becomes stranded on an alien world and forges an unlikely bond with his Drac enemy in the science fiction story "Enemy Mine."
  • D. Robert P. Kirshner
    Robert P. Kirshner is an American astronomer renowned for his work on supernovae and the accelerating expansion of the universe, contributing to the discovery of dark energy.
  • E. Alan H. Nichols
    Alan H. Nichols is an American legal figure best known for his role as a named party in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Lau v. Nichols concerning the rights of non-English-speaking students in public schools.
  • 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: John N. Mather
Triple: [Thom–Mather stratification, namedAfter, John N. Mather]
Generated description
John N. Mather was an American mathematician renowned for his foundational work in dynamical systems, singularity theory, and the development of Mather theory in Hamiltonian dynamics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John N. Mather
Target entity description: John N. Mather was an American mathematician renowned for his foundational work in dynamical systems, singularity theory, and the development of Mather theory in Hamiltonian dynamics.
  • A. John C. Mather
    John C. Mather is an American astrophysicist and cosmologist, Nobel Prize laureate, and a leading scientist behind NASA’s Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) mission that helped confirm the Big Bang theory.
  • B. Neil Gehrels
    Neil Gehrels was an influential American astrophysicist known for his pioneering work in gamma-ray astronomy and leadership of major space observatory missions.
  • C. Willis E. Davidge
    Willis E. Davidge is a human fighter pilot who becomes stranded on an alien world and forges an unlikely bond with his Drac enemy in the science fiction story "Enemy Mine."
  • D. Robert P. Kirshner
    Robert P. Kirshner is an American astronomer renowned for his work on supernovae and the accelerating expansion of the universe, contributing to the discovery of dark energy.
  • E. Alan H. Nichols
    Alan H. Nichols is an American legal figure best known for his role as a named party in the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Lau v. Nichols concerning the rights of non-English-speaking students in public schools.
  • 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_69d6ab45a368819084fce08bf0dc3705 completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d903d884488190b4450a98088208ef completed April 10, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f48b4535f48190ac5b2cabb4daf4af completed May 1, 2026, 11:15 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f490cb9328819095481a4d0fb0c625 completed May 1, 2026, 11:38 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f495cc50908190aab4f8ca64c66ef3 completed May 1, 2026, noon
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:46 p.m.