Triple

T1478657
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ernest Rutherford E30899 entity
Predicate student P7251 FINISHED
Object Ernest Marsden
Ernest Marsden was a British-New Zealand physicist best known for co-conducting the gold foil experiment that led to the discovery of the atomic nucleus.
E174061 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: Ernest Marsden | Statement: [Ernest Rutherford, student, Ernest Marsden]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ernest Marsden
Context triple: [Ernest Rutherford, student, Ernest Marsden]
  • A. Charles Glover Barkla
    Charles Glover Barkla was a British physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering research on X-ray spectroscopy and the characteristic radiation of elements.
  • B. Ernest Rutherford
    Ernest Rutherford was a pioneering New Zealand-born physicist known as the father of nuclear physics for his groundbreaking work on radioactivity and the structure of the atom.
  • C. Ernest Walton
    Ernest Walton was an Irish physicist and Nobel laureate best known for co-developing the Cockcroft–Walton accelerator, which achieved the first artificial nuclear disintegration.
  • D. Wendell Mitchell Latimer
    Wendell Mitchell Latimer was an American chemist known for his influential work in thermodynamics and chemical bonding, particularly at the University of California, Berkeley.
  • E. Cecil F. Powell
    Cecil F. Powell was a British physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in particle physics using photographic emulsion techniques.
  • 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: Ernest Marsden
Triple: [Ernest Rutherford, student, Ernest Marsden]
Generated description
Ernest Marsden was a British-New Zealand physicist best known for co-conducting the gold foil experiment that led to the discovery of the atomic nucleus.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ernest Marsden
Target entity description: Ernest Marsden was a British-New Zealand physicist best known for co-conducting the gold foil experiment that led to the discovery of the atomic nucleus.
  • A. Charles Glover Barkla
    Charles Glover Barkla was a British physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering research on X-ray spectroscopy and the characteristic radiation of elements.
  • B. Ernest Rutherford
    Ernest Rutherford was a pioneering New Zealand-born physicist known as the father of nuclear physics for his groundbreaking work on radioactivity and the structure of the atom.
  • C. Ernest Walton
    Ernest Walton was an Irish physicist and Nobel laureate best known for co-developing the Cockcroft–Walton accelerator, which achieved the first artificial nuclear disintegration.
  • D. Wendell Mitchell Latimer
    Wendell Mitchell Latimer was an American chemist known for his influential work in thermodynamics and chemical bonding, particularly at the University of California, Berkeley.
  • E. Cecil F. Powell
    Cecil F. Powell was a British physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in particle physics using photographic emulsion techniques.
  • 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_69a498fe55a88190ab7f9e40ace88e49 completed March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c6739d2481909ea8d8e075f62cf3 completed March 1, 2026, 11:06 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad2940a44c8190967a62781cca0306 completed March 8, 2026, 7:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad2a1742d48190a82c1fc8c81d5c21 completed March 8, 2026, 7:49 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad2a9e50888190bab83785f11135ea completed March 8, 2026, 7:51 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 8:11 p.m.