Triple

T15248826
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Michael Bishop E364460 entity
Predicate doctoralAdvisor P167 FINISHED
Object B. N. Ames
B. N. Ames is a scientist best known as the doctoral advisor of Nobel Prize–winning molecular biologist John Michael Bishop.
E1144911 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: B. N. Ames | Statement: [John Michael Bishop, doctoralAdvisor, B. N. Ames]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: B. N. Ames
Context triple: [John Michael Bishop, doctoralAdvisor, B. N. Ames]
  • A. George H. Hitchings
    George H. Hitchings was an American biochemist and pharmacologist who pioneered the development of important chemotherapy and antiviral drugs, work for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
  • B. John C. Darnell
    John C. Darnell is an American Egyptologist and archaeologist known for his influential work on ancient Egyptian texts and desert routes, including the identification of some of the earliest alphabetic inscriptions.
  • C. Raymond W. Stark
    Raymond W. Stark was an American film producer known for backing numerous successful Hollywood movies from the 1960s through the 1990s.
  • D. Joshua Lederberg
    Joshua Lederberg was an American molecular biologist and geneticist renowned for his pioneering work in bacterial genetics, which earned him a share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
  • E. Matthew Meselson
    Matthew Meselson is an American geneticist and molecular biologist best known for the Meselson–Stahl experiment, which provided key evidence for the semiconservative replication of DNA.
  • 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: B. N. Ames
Triple: [John Michael Bishop, doctoralAdvisor, B. N. Ames]
Generated description
B. N. Ames is a scientist best known as the doctoral advisor of Nobel Prize–winning molecular biologist John Michael Bishop.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: B. N. Ames
Target entity description: B. N. Ames is a scientist best known as the doctoral advisor of Nobel Prize–winning molecular biologist John Michael Bishop.
  • A. George H. Hitchings
    George H. Hitchings was an American biochemist and pharmacologist who pioneered the development of important chemotherapy and antiviral drugs, work for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
  • B. John C. Darnell
    John C. Darnell is an American Egyptologist and archaeologist known for his influential work on ancient Egyptian texts and desert routes, including the identification of some of the earliest alphabetic inscriptions.
  • C. Raymond W. Stark
    Raymond W. Stark was an American film producer known for backing numerous successful Hollywood movies from the 1960s through the 1990s.
  • D. Joshua Lederberg
    Joshua Lederberg was an American molecular biologist and geneticist renowned for his pioneering work in bacterial genetics, which earned him a share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
  • E. Matthew Meselson
    Matthew Meselson is an American geneticist and molecular biologist best known for the Meselson–Stahl experiment, which provided key evidence for the semiconservative replication of DNA.
  • 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_69d85a0dde7481908fc64d1e82d5d20d completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e007f62b9c8190b9ad40e2d1912b63 completed April 15, 2026, 9:49 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69fedd4ac4e48190b011b34cb5205b68 completed May 9, 2026, 7:07 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69fedeb0c4cc81908529ae29f8080ef2 completed May 9, 2026, 7:13 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69fedfa514808190b4a50e87833c5f69 completed May 9, 2026, 7:17 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:13 a.m.