Triple

T12447066
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Wistar E297428 entity
Predicate notableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Isaac Jones Wistar E61553 NE FINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

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: Isaac Jones Wistar | Statement: [Wistar, notableBearer, Isaac Jones Wistar]

Disambiguation candidates (1 decision)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Isaac Jones Wistar
Context triple: [Wistar, notableBearer, Isaac Jones Wistar]
  • A. Isaac Jones Wistar chosen
    Isaac Jones Wistar was an American lawyer, Civil War general, and philanthropist best known for founding the Wistar Institute, a leading biomedical research center.
  • B. Caspar Wistar
    Caspar Wistar was an American physician and anatomist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, known for his influential medical teaching and for Wistar Institute’s later naming in his honor.
  • C. Dan Halsted
    Dan Halsted is a film producer known for his work on major Hollywood projects, including the sports drama "Any Given Sunday."
  • D. Frank B. Jewett
    Frank B. Jewett was an American electrical engineer and physicist who served as the first president of Bell Telephone Laboratories and played a major role in organizing U.S. scientific research during World War II.
  • E. Theodore Herman Jewett
    Theodore Herman Jewett was a 19th-century New England physician best known as the father of American regionalist author Sarah Orne Jewett.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69d6ada166c48190b902972cd2408fa3 elicitation completed
NER batch_69d94d90f18c819083a36ff4b9be4a20 ner completed
NED1 batch_69f64b9f4dd08190b1d62b03d68cc8a6 ned_source_triple completed
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:56 p.m.