Triple

T1470270
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject IEEE James Clerk Maxwell Award E27118 entity
Predicate notableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object John B. Pendry
John B. Pendry is a British theoretical physicist renowned for his pioneering work in metamaterials and the concept of the perfect lens, which has profoundly influenced modern electromagnetism and optics.
E166925 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: John B. Pendry | Statement: [IEEE James Clerk Maxwell Award, notableRecipient, John B. Pendry]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John B. Pendry
Context triple: [IEEE James Clerk Maxwell Award, notableRecipient, John B. Pendry]
  • A. Phaedon Avouris
    Phaedon Avouris is a Greek-American physicist and nanoscientist renowned for his pioneering research in carbon nanotubes, graphene, and nanoelectronics.
  • B. Ojingeo Geim
    Ojingeo Geim is the Korean title of the globally popular South Korean survival drama series "Squid Game."
  • C. Raymond E. Goldstein
    Raymond E. Goldstein is a physicist renowned for his pioneering work in biological and nonlinear fluid dynamics, for which he received the APS Fluid Dynamics Prize.
  • D. Andre Geim
    Andre Geim is a Dutch-British physicist best known for his Nobel Prize–winning work on graphene and his playful "Friday night experiments," which also earned him an Ig Nobel Prize.
  • 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: John B. Pendry
Triple: [IEEE James Clerk Maxwell Award, notableRecipient, John B. Pendry]
Generated description
John B. Pendry is a British theoretical physicist renowned for his pioneering work in metamaterials and the concept of the perfect lens, which has profoundly influenced modern electromagnetism and optics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John B. Pendry
Target entity description: John B. Pendry is a British theoretical physicist renowned for his pioneering work in metamaterials and the concept of the perfect lens, which has profoundly influenced modern electromagnetism and optics.
  • A. Phaedon Avouris
    Phaedon Avouris is a Greek-American physicist and nanoscientist renowned for his pioneering research in carbon nanotubes, graphene, and nanoelectronics.
  • B. Ojingeo Geim
    Ojingeo Geim is the Korean title of the globally popular South Korean survival drama series "Squid Game."
  • C. Raymond E. Goldstein
    Raymond E. Goldstein is a physicist renowned for his pioneering work in biological and nonlinear fluid dynamics, for which he received the APS Fluid Dynamics Prize.
  • D. Andre Geim
    Andre Geim is a Dutch-British physicist best known for his Nobel Prize–winning work on graphene and his playful "Friday night experiments," which also earned him an Ig Nobel Prize.
  • 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_69a496d25d6881909dbd84f86d763992 completed March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c5d9dd4c8190ba840a9255cd1293 completed March 1, 2026, 11:03 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad0e805fa481908d6428a4e2fb4c4a completed March 8, 2026, 5:52 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad0f0b145c8190b08af9a6a3325c23 completed March 8, 2026, 5:54 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad0f9380648190b4db1b9c92f37831 completed March 8, 2026, 5:56 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 8:01 p.m.