Triple

T1239055
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Wollaston Medal E26615 entity
Predicate notableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Harry Hammond Hess
Harry Hammond Hess was an American geologist and Navy officer whose work on seafloor spreading helped establish the theory of plate tectonics.
E142999 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: Harry Hammond Hess | Statement: [Wollaston Medal, notableRecipient, Harry Hammond Hess]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harry Hammond Hess
Context triple: [Wollaston Medal, notableRecipient, Harry Hammond Hess]
  • A. J. Tuzo Wilson
    J. Tuzo Wilson was a pioneering Canadian geophysicist whose work on plate tectonics and transform faults fundamentally reshaped modern understanding of Earth's dynamic crust.
  • B. Maurice Ewing
    Maurice Ewing was a pioneering American geophysicist and oceanographer whose work in marine seismology and underwater acoustics fundamentally advanced the understanding of the Earth's crust and ocean basins.
  • C. Bruce C. Heezen
    Bruce C. Heezen was an American geologist and oceanographer renowned for his pioneering work in seafloor mapping and the discovery of extensive mid-ocean ridge systems.
  • D. Marie Tharp
    Marie Tharp was an American geologist and oceanographic cartographer whose pioneering seafloor maps provided crucial evidence for plate tectonics and transformed our understanding of the ocean floor.
  • E. Beno Gutenberg
    Beno Gutenberg was a German seismologist whose pioneering work in measuring and understanding earthquakes, including co-developing the Richter magnitude scale, helped lay the foundations of modern seismology.
  • 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: Harry Hammond Hess
Triple: [Wollaston Medal, notableRecipient, Harry Hammond Hess]
Generated description
Harry Hammond Hess was an American geologist and Navy officer whose work on seafloor spreading helped establish the theory of plate tectonics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harry Hammond Hess
Target entity description: Harry Hammond Hess was an American geologist and Navy officer whose work on seafloor spreading helped establish the theory of plate tectonics.
  • A. J. Tuzo Wilson
    J. Tuzo Wilson was a pioneering Canadian geophysicist whose work on plate tectonics and transform faults fundamentally reshaped modern understanding of Earth's dynamic crust.
  • B. Maurice Ewing
    Maurice Ewing was a pioneering American geophysicist and oceanographer whose work in marine seismology and underwater acoustics fundamentally advanced the understanding of the Earth's crust and ocean basins.
  • C. Bruce C. Heezen
    Bruce C. Heezen was an American geologist and oceanographer renowned for his pioneering work in seafloor mapping and the discovery of extensive mid-ocean ridge systems.
  • D. Marie Tharp
    Marie Tharp was an American geologist and oceanographic cartographer whose pioneering seafloor maps provided crucial evidence for plate tectonics and transformed our understanding of the ocean floor.
  • E. Beno Gutenberg
    Beno Gutenberg was a German seismologist whose pioneering work in measuring and understanding earthquakes, including co-developing the Richter magnitude scale, helped lay the foundations of modern seismology.
  • 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_69ac93c186fc8190a353c8f0a90ce273 completed March 7, 2026, 9:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac94abbd748190851f3d53ec909494 completed March 7, 2026, 9:12 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac9506ec5481909014834364f4e7f7 completed March 7, 2026, 9:13 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:47 p.m.