Triple

T12785435
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering E305612 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Donald P. Shiley
Donald P. Shiley was an American engineer and medical device inventor best known for co-inventing the Bjork–Shiley prosthetic heart valve and for his major philanthropic contributions to engineering and medical education.
E1003487 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: Donald P. Shiley | Statement: [Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering, namedAfter, Donald P. Shiley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Donald P. Shiley
Context triple: [Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering, namedAfter, Donald P. Shiley]
  • A. Walter H. Maurer
    Walter H. Maurer is an American scholar of Sanskrit and South Asian studies, known for his work on Vedic literature and Hindu religious texts.
  • B. James E. Rogers
    James E. Rogers was an American businessman and philanthropist best known for his leadership in the cable television industry and his substantial charitable contributions to higher education.
  • C. Donald Bren
    Donald Bren is an American billionaire real estate developer and philanthropist, best known as the chairman and principal owner of the Irvine Company.
  • D. John D. Feeley
    John D. Feeley is an American diplomat and former U.S. Marine Corps officer who served as the United States Ambassador to Panama.
  • E. Donald R. Seawell
    Donald R. Seawell was an American attorney, theatrical producer, and arts patron best known for his influential role in developing Denver’s cultural landscape.
  • 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: Donald P. Shiley
Triple: [Shiley-Marcos School of Engineering, namedAfter, Donald P. Shiley]
Generated description
Donald P. Shiley was an American engineer and medical device inventor best known for co-inventing the Bjork–Shiley prosthetic heart valve and for his major philanthropic contributions to engineering and medical education.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Donald P. Shiley
Target entity description: Donald P. Shiley was an American engineer and medical device inventor best known for co-inventing the Bjork–Shiley prosthetic heart valve and for his major philanthropic contributions to engineering and medical education.
  • A. Walter H. Maurer
    Walter H. Maurer is an American scholar of Sanskrit and South Asian studies, known for his work on Vedic literature and Hindu religious texts.
  • B. James E. Rogers
    James E. Rogers was an American businessman and philanthropist best known for his leadership in the cable television industry and his substantial charitable contributions to higher education.
  • C. Donald Bren
    Donald Bren is an American billionaire real estate developer and philanthropist, best known as the chairman and principal owner of the Irvine Company.
  • D. John D. Feeley
    John D. Feeley is an American diplomat and former U.S. Marine Corps officer who served as the United States Ambassador to Panama.
  • E. Donald R. Seawell
    Donald R. Seawell was an American attorney, theatrical producer, and arts patron best known for his influential role in developing Denver’s cultural landscape.
  • 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_69d7bdf2b43c819098ae5aa68e61ea58 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d96e5cb3c08190b8e1e22de8b96e17 completed April 10, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f6850703948190984acf9e434cd2a7 completed May 2, 2026, 11:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f685dc63f48190bb68f9859e99e3b4 completed May 2, 2026, 11:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f68a92226881909600555332c2c370 completed May 2, 2026, 11:36 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:29 p.m.