Triple

T1239029
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Wollaston Medal E26615 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object William Hyde Wollaston
William Hyde Wollaston was an English chemist and physicist known for discovering the elements palladium and rhodium and for pioneering work in optics and spectroscopy.
 E146033 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: William Hyde Wollaston | Statement: [Wollaston Medal, namedAfter, William Hyde Wollaston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Hyde Wollaston
Context triple: [Wollaston Medal, namedAfter, William Hyde Wollaston]
  • A. J. H. Frankland
    J. H. Frankland is a mycologist recognized for formally describing and naming taxa within the fungal family Ophiostomataceae.
  • B. Humphry Davy
    Humphry Davy was a pioneering early 19th-century British chemist best known for discovering several alkali and alkaline earth metals and for inventing the Davy safety lamp for miners.
  • C. George Stoney
    George Stoney was an Irish physicist and academic best known for introducing the term "electron" for the fundamental unit of electric charge.
  • D. Joseph Black
    Joseph Black was an 18th-century Scottish physician and chemist renowned for his pioneering work on latent heat, specific heat, and carbon dioxide, which laid foundations for modern thermodynamics and physical chemistry.
  • E. William Whewell
    William Whewell was a 19th-century English polymath, philosopher, and historian of science known for coining key scientific terms and shaping the philosophy of scientific method.
  • 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: William Hyde Wollaston
Triple: [Wollaston Medal, namedAfter, William Hyde Wollaston]
Generated description
William Hyde Wollaston was an English chemist and physicist known for discovering the elements palladium and rhodium and for pioneering work in optics and spectroscopy.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Hyde Wollaston
Target entity description: William Hyde Wollaston was an English chemist and physicist known for discovering the elements palladium and rhodium and for pioneering work in optics and spectroscopy.
  • A. J. H. Frankland
    J. H. Frankland is a mycologist recognized for formally describing and naming taxa within the fungal family Ophiostomataceae.
  • B. Humphry Davy
    Humphry Davy was a pioneering early 19th-century British chemist best known for discovering several alkali and alkaline earth metals and for inventing the Davy safety lamp for miners.
  • C. George Stoney
    George Stoney was an Irish physicist and academic best known for introducing the term "electron" for the fundamental unit of electric charge.
  • D. Joseph Black
    Joseph Black was an 18th-century Scottish physician and chemist renowned for his pioneering work on latent heat, specific heat, and carbon dioxide, which laid foundations for modern thermodynamics and physical chemistry.
  • E. William Whewell
    William Whewell was a 19th-century English polymath, philosopher, and historian of science known for coining key scientific terms and shaping the philosophy of scientific method.
  • 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_69a4948689d08190b3a4a3f388c02148 completed March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bf406b988190a12aa26bbcb88d6a completed March 1, 2026, 10:35 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aca2ed73248190b03fd6085dec9d8c completed March 7, 2026, 10:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aca3752a3c81908bd6d9744ad5f5a2 completed March 7, 2026, 10:15 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aca3e44bf481908c5726adddc4b428 completed March 7, 2026, 10:17 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:47 p.m.