Triple

T15458276
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Child–Langmuir law E371829 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Charles D. Child
Charles D. Child was an American physicist best known for formulating the Child–Langmuir law describing space-charge-limited current in vacuum tubes.
E1157340 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: Charles D. Child | Statement: [Child–Langmuir law, namedAfter, Charles D. Child]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles D. Child
Context triple: [Child–Langmuir law, namedAfter, Charles D. Child]
  • A. Edward H. R. Lyman
    Edward H. R. Lyman was a philanthropist and cultural patron known for establishing the Academy of Music Theatre in Northampton, Massachusetts.
  • B. Edwin Cannan
    Edwin Cannan was a British economist and economic historian known for his influential work on classical economics and his role in editing and interpreting Adam Smith’s writings.
  • C. Walter H. Leimert
    Walter H. Leimert was a real estate developer and businessman best known for planning and developing the Los Angeles neighborhood that now bears the name Leimert Park.
  • D. Arthur Heber Browne
    Arthur Heber Browne was an Anglican clergyman who served as a bishop, notably in the early 20th century.
  • E. Charles Eliot Ware
    Charles Eliot Ware was a 19th-century American physician and Harvard Medical School graduate known for his work in internal medicine and his association with Boston’s medical community.
  • 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: Charles D. Child
Triple: [Child–Langmuir law, namedAfter, Charles D. Child]
Generated description
Charles D. Child was an American physicist best known for formulating the Child–Langmuir law describing space-charge-limited current in vacuum tubes.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles D. Child
Target entity description: Charles D. Child was an American physicist best known for formulating the Child–Langmuir law describing space-charge-limited current in vacuum tubes.
  • A. Edward H. R. Lyman
    Edward H. R. Lyman was a philanthropist and cultural patron known for establishing the Academy of Music Theatre in Northampton, Massachusetts.
  • B. Edwin Cannan
    Edwin Cannan was a British economist and economic historian known for his influential work on classical economics and his role in editing and interpreting Adam Smith’s writings.
  • C. Walter H. Leimert
    Walter H. Leimert was a real estate developer and businessman best known for planning and developing the Los Angeles neighborhood that now bears the name Leimert Park.
  • D. Arthur Heber Browne
    Arthur Heber Browne was an Anglican clergyman who served as a bishop, notably in the early 20th century.
  • E. Charles Eliot Ware
    Charles Eliot Ware was a 19th-century American physician and Harvard Medical School graduate known for his work in internal medicine and his association with Boston’s medical community.
  • 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_69d85cc8bd308190886949510b42e764 completed April 10, 2026, 2:13 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e03f1623f0819086f6fc2bfd536609 completed April 16, 2026, 1:44 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ff21b7b600819081a6087bd6309237 completed May 9, 2026, 11:59 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ff225ba3bc8190b57da931ffa240fe completed May 9, 2026, 12:02 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ff2339ae808190bf2d4676215399c0 completed May 9, 2026, 12:06 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 3:32 a.m.