Triple

T12495837
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject McCollum E298680 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Elmer McCollum
Elmer McCollum was an American biochemist best known for discovering vitamins A and B and helping to establish the field of nutritional science.
E987565 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: Elmer McCollum | Statement: [McCollum, hasNotableBearer, Elmer McCollum]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Elmer McCollum
Context triple: [McCollum, hasNotableBearer, Elmer McCollum]
  • A. Conrad Elvehjem
    Conrad Elvehjem was an American biochemist best known for identifying niacin as the pellagra-preventing vitamin and for his contributions to nutritional science.
  • B. Ancel Keys
    Ancel Keys was an American physiologist and nutrition researcher best known for developing K-rations for the U.S. military and for pioneering studies linking diet, cholesterol, and heart disease, including the influential Seven Countries Study.
  • C. Harry Steenbock
    Harry Steenbock was an American biochemist best known for discovering how to use ultraviolet light to fortify foods with vitamin D, a breakthrough that helped eradicate rickets.
  • D. B. B. Collip
    B. B. Collip was a Canadian biochemist best known as a key member of the team that developed insulin as a treatment for diabetes.
  • E. Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
    Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins was an English biochemist and Nobel laureate renowned for discovering essential nutrients later known as vitamins and for pioneering the field of nutritional biochemistry.
  • 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: Elmer McCollum
Triple: [McCollum, hasNotableBearer, Elmer McCollum]
Generated description
Elmer McCollum was an American biochemist best known for discovering vitamins A and B and helping to establish the field of nutritional science.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Elmer McCollum
Target entity description: Elmer McCollum was an American biochemist best known for discovering vitamins A and B and helping to establish the field of nutritional science.
  • A. Conrad Elvehjem
    Conrad Elvehjem was an American biochemist best known for identifying niacin as the pellagra-preventing vitamin and for his contributions to nutritional science.
  • B. Ancel Keys
    Ancel Keys was an American physiologist and nutrition researcher best known for developing K-rations for the U.S. military and for pioneering studies linking diet, cholesterol, and heart disease, including the influential Seven Countries Study.
  • C. Harry Steenbock
    Harry Steenbock was an American biochemist best known for discovering how to use ultraviolet light to fortify foods with vitamin D, a breakthrough that helped eradicate rickets.
  • D. B. B. Collip
    B. B. Collip was a Canadian biochemist best known as a key member of the team that developed insulin as a treatment for diabetes.
  • E. Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
    Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins was an English biochemist and Nobel laureate renowned for discovering essential nutrients later known as vitamins and for pioneering the field of nutritional biochemistry.
  • 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_69d6ada4cd388190ae3bbf83ff87057a completed April 8, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d94df948308190ace333230a4a3b38 completed April 10, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f64badad488190ae1c6c2883a88a4b completed May 2, 2026, 7:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f64f9c0e8c81908db3cad51daa77b6 completed May 2, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6504b033c8190a31f49f2e59c6810 completed May 2, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:57 p.m.