Triple

T1564864
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Ives–Stilwell experiment E33408 entity
Predicate performedBy P1363 FINISHED
Object Herbert E. Ives
Herbert E. Ives was an American physicist and engineer known for his pioneering work in optics, television, and experimental tests of special relativity.
E260635 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: Herbert E. Ives | Statement: [Ives–Stilwell experiment, performedBy, Herbert E. Ives]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herbert E. Ives
Context triple: [Ives–Stilwell experiment, performedBy, Herbert E. Ives]
  • A. Edwin Blashfield
    Edwin Blashfield was an American muralist and painter best known for his large-scale allegorical works in prominent public buildings across the United States.
  • B. Harold Hazen
    Harold Hazen was an American electrical engineer and MIT professor known for his pioneering work in control systems and his role in developing early analog computing devices.
  • C. Alfred P. Boller
    Alfred P. Boller was an American civil engineer known for designing major infrastructure projects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. Ralph B. Lloyd
    Ralph B. Lloyd was an American oilman and real estate developer whose investments and land holdings played a major role in shaping urban districts in the western United States.
  • E. Samuel G. Fleisher
    Samuel G. Fleisher was a Philadelphia philanthropist and arts patron known for supporting accessible art education and helping establish key contemporary art institutions in the city.
  • 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: Herbert E. Ives
Triple: [Ives–Stilwell experiment, performedBy, Herbert E. Ives]
Generated description
Herbert E. Ives was an American physicist and engineer known for his pioneering work in optics, television, and experimental tests of special relativity.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herbert E. Ives
Target entity description: Herbert E. Ives was an American physicist and engineer known for his pioneering work in optics, television, and experimental tests of special relativity.
  • A. Edwin Blashfield
    Edwin Blashfield was an American muralist and painter best known for his large-scale allegorical works in prominent public buildings across the United States.
  • B. Harold Hazen
    Harold Hazen was an American electrical engineer and MIT professor known for his pioneering work in control systems and his role in developing early analog computing devices.
  • C. Alfred P. Boller
    Alfred P. Boller was an American civil engineer known for designing major infrastructure projects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. Ralph B. Lloyd
    Ralph B. Lloyd was an American oilman and real estate developer whose investments and land holdings played a major role in shaping urban districts in the western United States.
  • E. Samuel G. Fleisher
    Samuel G. Fleisher was a Philadelphia philanthropist and arts patron known for supporting accessible art education and helping establish key contemporary art institutions in the city.
  • 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_69a885f11b048190935025a035302715 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa621242188190a7e1deeada7688d8 completed March 6, 2026, 5:11 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aea82cd9748190ac82c7221455b2d5 completed March 9, 2026, 10:59 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aeab510c908190b5c53ce49d18b880 completed March 9, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aeac08f5248190893b5d378fde2836 completed March 9, 2026, 11:16 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:27 p.m.