Triple

T12417284
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Norton equivalent circuit E296669 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Edward Lawry Norton
Edward Lawry Norton was an American engineer and Bell Labs researcher best known for formulating Norton's theorem in electrical circuit theory.
 E980953 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: Edward Lawry Norton | Statement: [Norton equivalent circuit, namedAfter, Edward Lawry Norton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Edward Lawry Norton
Context triple: [Norton equivalent circuit, namedAfter, Edward Lawry Norton]
  • A. Edward James Harland
    Edward James Harland was a 19th-century British shipbuilder and industrialist best known as a co-founder of the Belfast shipbuilding firm Harland and Wolff.
  • B. Anthony Howard Goldwyn
    Anthony Howard Goldwyn is an American actor, director, and producer best known for his roles in films like "Ghost" and the TV series "Scandal."
  • C. Leon Allen Goslin
    Leon Allen "Goose" Goslin was a Hall of Fame American Major League Baseball left fielder known for his powerful hitting during the 1920s and 1930s.
  • D. Richard Benjamin Haymes
    Richard Benjamin Haymes was an Argentine-born American singer and actor prominent in the 1940s big band era and Hollywood musicals.
  • E. Robert Walter Weir
    Robert Walter Weir was a 19th-century American painter and influential art instructor at the United States Military Academy at West Point.
  • 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: Edward Lawry Norton
Triple: [Norton equivalent circuit, namedAfter, Edward Lawry Norton]
Generated description
Edward Lawry Norton was an American engineer and Bell Labs researcher best known for formulating Norton's theorem in electrical circuit theory.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Edward Lawry Norton
Target entity description: Edward Lawry Norton was an American engineer and Bell Labs researcher best known for formulating Norton's theorem in electrical circuit theory.
  • A. Edward James Harland
    Edward James Harland was a 19th-century British shipbuilder and industrialist best known as a co-founder of the Belfast shipbuilding firm Harland and Wolff.
  • B. Anthony Howard Goldwyn
    Anthony Howard Goldwyn is an American actor, director, and producer best known for his roles in films like "Ghost" and the TV series "Scandal."
  • C. Leon Allen Goslin
    Leon Allen "Goose" Goslin was a Hall of Fame American Major League Baseball left fielder known for his powerful hitting during the 1920s and 1930s.
  • D. Richard Benjamin Haymes
    Richard Benjamin Haymes was an Argentine-born American singer and actor prominent in the 1940s big band era and Hollywood musicals.
  • E. Robert Walter Weir
    Robert Walter Weir was a 19th-century American painter and influential art instructor at the United States Military Academy at West Point.
  • 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_69d6ada0640c81908c061d7fb3d47786 completed April 8, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d94d6de5808190b2116b0b491c40b5 completed April 10, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f634915940819092665f1f35aa823d completed May 2, 2026, 5:29 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f635997b088190b6207fcac5594eb2 completed May 2, 2026, 5:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f636d727a08190882eec3fd664b64d completed May 2, 2026, 5:39 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:55 p.m.