Triple
T12732954
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Thomas Steitz |
E304287
|
entity |
| Predicate | doctoralAdvisor |
P167
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William N. Lipscomb Jr. |
E383478
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: William N. Lipscomb Jr. | Statement: [Thomas Steitz, doctoralAdvisor, William N. Lipscomb Jr.]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William N. Lipscomb Jr. Context triple: [Thomas Steitz, doctoralAdvisor, William N. Lipscomb Jr.]
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A.
William N. Lipscomb Jr.
chosen
William N. Lipscomb Jr. was an American chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in the structure and bonding of boranes and other boron-containing compounds.
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B.
Eugene G. Rochow
Eugene G. Rochow was an American inorganic chemist renowned for pioneering organosilicon chemistry and the direct process for producing silicones, achievements that earned him the Priestley Medal.
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C.
Frederick Seitz
Frederick Seitz was an influential American physicist and solid-state physics pioneer who served as president of the National Academy of Sciences and Rockefeller University.
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D.
Robert Upshur Woodward
Robert Upshur Woodward is an American investigative journalist and author best known for his reporting on the Watergate scandal for The Washington Post.
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E.
Paul von Ragué Schleyer
Paul von Ragué Schleyer was a prominent theoretical and physical organic chemist known for his influential work on carbocations, computational chemistry, and the structure and stability of organic molecules.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69d7bdf1426c8190a4402e1c4cdec33a |
completed | April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d9646902408190b29268d864833b80 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 8:58 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f684e7dec08190b522a8f3bfde6fe2 |
completed | May 2, 2026, 11:12 p.m. |
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:25 p.m.