Triple

T1323405
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ivar Giaever E28270 entity
Predicate sharedNobelPrizeWith P1859 FINISHED
Object Brian David Josephson
Brian David Josephson is a British physicist best known for predicting the Josephson effect in superconductivity, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics.
E153931 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: Brian David Josephson | Statement: [Ivar Giaever, sharedNobelPrizeWith, Brian David Josephson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brian David Josephson
Context triple: [Ivar Giaever, sharedNobelPrizeWith, Brian David Josephson]
  • A. Ivar Giaever
    Ivar Giaever is a Norwegian-American physicist and Nobel laureate recognized for his pioneering work on quantum tunneling in superconductors.
  • B. John Robert Schrieffer
    John Robert Schrieffer was an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known as one of the co-creators of the BCS theory of superconductivity.
  • C. Leo Esaki
    Leo Esaki is a Japanese physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on quantum tunneling and the invention of the Esaki (tunnel) diode.
  • D. John Bardeen
    John Bardeen was an American physicist and electrical engineer, uniquely renowned for being the only person to win the Nobel Prize in Physics twice for his work on the transistor and superconductivity.
  • E. Nevill Mott
    Nevill Mott was a British physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems, particularly in solids.
  • 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: Brian David Josephson
Triple: [Ivar Giaever, sharedNobelPrizeWith, Brian David Josephson]
Generated description
Brian David Josephson is a British physicist best known for predicting the Josephson effect in superconductivity, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brian David Josephson
Target entity description: Brian David Josephson is a British physicist best known for predicting the Josephson effect in superconductivity, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics.
  • A. Ivar Giaever
    Ivar Giaever is a Norwegian-American physicist and Nobel laureate recognized for his pioneering work on quantum tunneling in superconductors.
  • B. John Robert Schrieffer
    John Robert Schrieffer was an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known as one of the co-creators of the BCS theory of superconductivity.
  • C. Leo Esaki
    Leo Esaki is a Japanese physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on quantum tunneling and the invention of the Esaki (tunnel) diode.
  • D. John Bardeen
    John Bardeen was an American physicist and electrical engineer, uniquely renowned for being the only person to win the Nobel Prize in Physics twice for his work on the transistor and superconductivity.
  • E. Nevill Mott
    Nevill Mott was a British physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the electronic structure of magnetic and disordered systems, particularly in solids.
  • 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_69a498540a2481909e807a762280d3ba completed March 1, 2026, 7:49 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c19caa148190a1f5be734b7d9005 completed March 1, 2026, 10:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acc62764d88190b7d1fca10835f560 completed March 8, 2026, 12:43 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acc6dbd80881908d640ee204ce9a12 completed March 8, 2026, 12:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69acc8199f508190a86c18ad9085d341 completed March 8, 2026, 12:51 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:55 p.m.