Triple

T12622204
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John B. Gurdon E301409 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object John
John is the given name of John B. Gurdon, a Nobel Prize–winning British developmental biologist known for his pioneering work in nuclear reprogramming and cloning.
E996989 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: John | Statement: [John B. Gurdon, givenName, John]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John
Context triple: [John B. Gurdon, givenName, John]
  • A. John
    John is the given name of John J. Pershing, the famed American general who led the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I.
  • B. John
    John is the given name of John W. Mauchly, the American physicist and co-inventor of the ENIAC computer.
  • C. John
    John is the first name of Johnny Evers, a Hall of Fame American Major League Baseball second baseman who starred for the Chicago Cubs in the early 20th century.
  • D. John
    John is the given first name of Johnny Kilbane, an American featherweight boxing champion from the early 20th century.
  • E. John
    John McDowell is a prominent South African-born philosopher known for his influential work in epistemology, philosophy of mind, and ethics.
  • 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: John
Triple: [John B. Gurdon, givenName, John]
Generated description
John is the given name of John B. Gurdon, a Nobel Prize–winning British developmental biologist known for his pioneering work in nuclear reprogramming and cloning.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John
Target entity description: John is the given name of John B. Gurdon, a Nobel Prize–winning British developmental biologist known for his pioneering work in nuclear reprogramming and cloning.
  • A. John
    John is the given name of John Cockcroft, a pioneering British physicist and Nobel laureate known for his work on nuclear physics and particle acceleration.
  • B. John
    John is the given name of the British biochemist and crystallographer John Kendrew, a Nobel laureate known for determining the structure of myoglobin.
  • C. John
    John is the given name of John Polanyi, a Nobel Prize–winning chemist known for his work on chemical kinetics and reaction dynamics.
  • D. John
    John is the given first name of J. Michael Bishop, the American immunologist and Nobel Prize–winning scientist known for his work on oncogenes.
  • E. John
    John is the given name of the influential British evolutionary biologist and geneticist John Maynard Smith.
  • 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_69d7bdeaf49c8190b13800111fa77ea3 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d960c8671881909a102d28b0e7f603 completed April 10, 2026, 8:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f67190a20c8190918b465b67d25869 completed May 2, 2026, 9:50 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f6735b3de08190ab4665206fe71eb4 completed May 2, 2026, 9:57 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f6745a5c148190a76753fdb699706a completed May 2, 2026, 10:02 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:14 p.m.