Triple

T13316297
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dolly the sheep E317196 entity
Predicate clonedBy P29592 FINISHED
Object Ian Wilmut
Ian Wilmut was a British embryologist best known for leading the team that created Dolly the sheep, the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell.
E1033529 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: Ian Wilmut | Statement: [Dolly the sheep, clonedBy, Ian Wilmut]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ian Wilmut
Context triple: [Dolly the sheep, clonedBy, Ian Wilmut]
  • A. John B. Gurdon
    John B. Gurdon is a British developmental biologist renowned for his pioneering work in nuclear reprogramming and cloning, which demonstrated that mature cells can be reverted to an embryonic state.
  • B. Sir Martin Evans
    Sir Martin Evans is a British biologist and Nobel Prize–winning pioneer of embryonic stem cell research whose work enabled the development of genetically modified mice for studying human disease.
  • C. Robert Edwards
    Robert Edwards is a British physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate best known for pioneering in vitro fertilization (IVF), which led to the birth of the first “test-tube baby.”
  • D. Rudolf Jaenisch
    Rudolf Jaenisch is a pioneering molecular biologist known for his groundbreaking work in transgenic animals, epigenetics, and stem cell research.
  • E. Mario Capecchi
    Mario Capecchi is an Italian-born American molecular geneticist and Nobel laureate renowned for developing gene targeting in mouse embryonic stem cells, a breakthrough that revolutionized the study of gene function in mammals.
  • 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: Ian Wilmut
Triple: [Dolly the sheep, clonedBy, Ian Wilmut]
Generated description
Ian Wilmut was a British embryologist best known for leading the team that created Dolly the sheep, the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ian Wilmut
Target entity description: Ian Wilmut was a British embryologist best known for leading the team that created Dolly the sheep, the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell.
  • A. John B. Gurdon
    John B. Gurdon is a British developmental biologist renowned for his pioneering work in nuclear reprogramming and cloning, which demonstrated that mature cells can be reverted to an embryonic state.
  • B. Sir Martin Evans
    Sir Martin Evans is a British biologist and Nobel Prize–winning pioneer of embryonic stem cell research whose work enabled the development of genetically modified mice for studying human disease.
  • C. Robert Edwards
    Robert Edwards is a British physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate best known for pioneering in vitro fertilization (IVF), which led to the birth of the first “test-tube baby.”
  • D. Rudolf Jaenisch
    Rudolf Jaenisch is a pioneering molecular biologist known for his groundbreaking work in transgenic animals, epigenetics, and stem cell research.
  • E. Mario Capecchi
    Mario Capecchi is an Italian-born American molecular geneticist and Nobel laureate renowned for developing gene targeting in mouse embryonic stem cells, a breakthrough that revolutionized the study of gene function in mammals.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: clonedBy
Context triple: [Dolly the sheep, clonedBy, Ian Wilmut]
  • A. isCopiedBy
    Indicates that an entity serves as the source from which another entity is duplicated or reproduced.
  • B. hasCopyOrClone
    Indicates that one entity exists as a copy or clone of another, preserving the original’s content or structure.
  • C. derivedBy chosen
    Indicates that one entity is obtained, produced, or inferred from another through some transformation, process, or reasoning.
  • D. replicaOf
    Indicates that one entity is an exact or near-exact copy of another entity, preserving its form, structure, or content.
  • E. hasCopy
    Indicates that one entity possesses, contains, or maintains a duplicate or instance of another entity.
  • F. None of above.

Provenance (6 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_69d806b4d62c81908d4ced1665414be5 completed April 9, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d99cfdc9388190af1fdd3cd4717bd8 completed April 11, 2026, 12:59 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f716ec2ec08190a6e37795b422fe71 completed May 3, 2026, 9:35 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f717d953b48190954b86c41ff34c07 completed May 3, 2026, 9:39 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f718b852808190a2a0fb48424bffb0 completed May 3, 2026, 9:43 a.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69d98f6babd88190a5d529df9584b9a4 completed April 11, 2026, 12:01 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:29 p.m.