Triple

T13444245
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Paul Halmos E320438 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object I Want to Be a Mathematician: An Automathography
I Want to Be a Mathematician: An Automathography is Paul Halmos’s autobiographical memoir recounting his life, career, and experiences in 20th-century mathematics.
E1041775 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: I Want to Be a Mathematician: An Automathography | Statement: [Paul Halmos, notableWork, I Want to Be a Mathematician: An Automathography]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: I Want to Be a Mathematician: An Automathography
Context triple: [Paul Halmos, notableWork, I Want to Be a Mathematician: An Automathography]
  • A. Letters to a Young Mathematician
    "Letters to a Young Mathematician" is a popular science book by Ian Stewart that offers personal, accessible guidance on the nature of mathematical thinking and the life of a mathematician.
  • B. The Mathematical Experience
    The Mathematical Experience is a widely acclaimed book that explores the nature, history, philosophy, and human side of mathematics in an accessible and reflective way.
  • C. A Mathematician's Apology
    A Mathematician's Apology is G. H. Hardy’s classic reflective essay that defends the aesthetic value of pure mathematics and offers a candid, personal account of the mathematician’s life and creative process.
  • D. Birth of a Theorem
    Birth of a Theorem is a memoir-style mathematical narrative by Fields Medalist Cédric Villani that chronicles the creative and personal journey behind one of his major research breakthroughs.
  • E. The Great Mathematical Problems
    The Great Mathematical Problems is a popular mathematics book by Ian Stewart that explores some of the most famous unsolved and historically significant problems in mathematics for a general audience.
  • 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: I Want to Be a Mathematician: An Automathography
Triple: [Paul Halmos, notableWork, I Want to Be a Mathematician: An Automathography]
Generated description
I Want to Be a Mathematician: An Automathography is Paul Halmos’s autobiographical memoir recounting his life, career, and experiences in 20th-century mathematics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: I Want to Be a Mathematician: An Automathography
Target entity description: I Want to Be a Mathematician: An Automathography is Paul Halmos’s autobiographical memoir recounting his life, career, and experiences in 20th-century mathematics.
  • A. Letters to a Young Mathematician
    "Letters to a Young Mathematician" is a popular science book by Ian Stewart that offers personal, accessible guidance on the nature of mathematical thinking and the life of a mathematician.
  • B. The Mathematical Experience
    The Mathematical Experience is a widely acclaimed book that explores the nature, history, philosophy, and human side of mathematics in an accessible and reflective way.
  • C. A Mathematician's Apology
    A Mathematician's Apology is G. H. Hardy’s classic reflective essay that defends the aesthetic value of pure mathematics and offers a candid, personal account of the mathematician’s life and creative process.
  • D. Birth of a Theorem
    Birth of a Theorem is a memoir-style mathematical narrative by Fields Medalist Cédric Villani that chronicles the creative and personal journey behind one of his major research breakthroughs.
  • E. The Great Mathematical Problems
    The Great Mathematical Problems is a popular mathematics book by Ian Stewart that explores some of the most famous unsolved and historically significant problems in mathematics for a general audience.
  • 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_69d80761e6cc8190a90c844589998ecc completed April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69dbaee881888190811ddf01bc699864 completed April 12, 2026, 2:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f739965ef081909e85881ce805bbb5 completed May 3, 2026, 12:03 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f740e536d48190af369b38aa42438d completed May 3, 2026, 12:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f741b72d08819087808bf9bcffa0a1 completed May 3, 2026, 12:38 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:40 p.m.