Triple

T1224905
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Cockcroft E26304 entity
Predicate knownFor P22 FINISHED
Object Cockcroft–Walton generator
The Cockcroft–Walton generator is a high-voltage power supply circuit that uses a cascade of capacitors and diodes to multiply an input AC voltage, historically important for early particle acceleration experiments.
E139401 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: Cockcroft–Walton generator | Statement: [John Cockcroft, knownFor, Cockcroft–Walton generator]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cockcroft–Walton generator
Context triple: [John Cockcroft, knownFor, Cockcroft–Walton generator]
  • A. Brookhaven Linac Isotope Producer
    The Brookhaven Linac Isotope Producer is a particle-accelerator-based facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory that generates medical and research isotopes for nuclear medicine and scientific applications.
  • B. X-10 graphite reactor
    The X-10 graphite reactor was an early nuclear reactor at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, built during the Manhattan Project as a pilot plant for plutonium production and a key step toward the development of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy.
  • C. Proton Synchrotron Booster
    The Proton Synchrotron Booster is a circular particle accelerator at CERN that increases the energy of protons from the linear accelerator before injecting them into larger synchrotrons in the accelerator complex.
  • D. Proton Synchrotron
    The Proton Synchrotron is a historic circular particle accelerator at CERN that has played a key role in high-energy physics research and in feeding beams to larger colliders.
  • E. Oppenheimer–Phillips process
    The Oppenheimer–Phillips process is a nuclear reaction mechanism in which a deuteron interacting with a target nucleus effectively transfers its neutron while the proton is repelled, enabling certain reactions to occur at lower energies than would otherwise be required.
  • 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: Cockcroft–Walton generator
Triple: [John Cockcroft, knownFor, Cockcroft–Walton generator]
Generated description
The Cockcroft–Walton generator is a high-voltage power supply circuit that uses a cascade of capacitors and diodes to multiply an input AC voltage, historically important for early particle acceleration experiments.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cockcroft–Walton generator
Target entity description: The Cockcroft–Walton generator is a high-voltage power supply circuit that uses a cascade of capacitors and diodes to multiply an input AC voltage, historically important for early particle acceleration experiments.
  • A. Brookhaven Linac Isotope Producer
    The Brookhaven Linac Isotope Producer is a particle-accelerator-based facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory that generates medical and research isotopes for nuclear medicine and scientific applications.
  • B. X-10 graphite reactor
    The X-10 graphite reactor was an early nuclear reactor at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, built during the Manhattan Project as a pilot plant for plutonium production and a key step toward the development of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy.
  • C. Proton Synchrotron Booster
    The Proton Synchrotron Booster is a circular particle accelerator at CERN that increases the energy of protons from the linear accelerator before injecting them into larger synchrotrons in the accelerator complex.
  • D. Proton Synchrotron
    The Proton Synchrotron is a historic circular particle accelerator at CERN that has played a key role in high-energy physics research and in feeding beams to larger colliders.
  • E. Oppenheimer–Phillips process
    The Oppenheimer–Phillips process is a nuclear reaction mechanism in which a deuteron interacting with a target nucleus effectively transfers its neutron while the proton is repelled, enabling certain reactions to occur at lower energies than would otherwise be required.
  • 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_69a49484688c8190a1bf285eb396a8b6 completed March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4be382c4081909238c18b805352a7 completed March 1, 2026, 10:31 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac832704c08190a1a73ebd90fa91b8 completed March 7, 2026, 7:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac83add3608190be198ba153721d5c completed March 7, 2026, 7:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac846e724081909696c8c44f2f9500 completed March 7, 2026, 8:02 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:47 p.m.