Triple

T1580500
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Santa Fe Institute E33751 entity
Predicate hasFounder P104 FINISHED
Object George Cowan
George Cowan was an American physical chemist and philanthropist best known for his work on the Manhattan Project and for founding the interdisciplinary research center, the Santa Fe Institute.
E203614 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: George Cowan | Statement: [Santa Fe Institute, hasFounder, George Cowan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Cowan
Context triple: [Santa Fe Institute, hasFounder, George Cowan]
  • A. Arthur Whitten Brown
    Arthur Whitten Brown was a British aviator best known as the navigator on the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919 alongside pilot John Alcock.
  • B. Victor A. Crutchley
    Victor A. Crutchley was a British Royal Navy admiral and Victoria Cross recipient who served with distinction in both World Wars.
  • C. William Bateman
    William Bateman was a 14th-century English bishop and influential academic patron best known for establishing Trinity Hall at the University of Cambridge.
  • D. William Maxwell Aitken
    William Maxwell Aitken, better known as Lord Beaverbrook, was a powerful Canadian-British newspaper magnate and influential political figure in early 20th-century Britain.
  • E. Harold Briggs
    Harold Briggs was a British Army officer best known for devising and implementing the Briggs Plan to combat communist insurgency during the Malayan Emergency.
  • 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: George Cowan
Triple: [Santa Fe Institute, hasFounder, George Cowan]
Generated description
George Cowan was an American physical chemist and philanthropist best known for his work on the Manhattan Project and for founding the interdisciplinary research center, the Santa Fe Institute.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Cowan
Target entity description: George Cowan was an American physical chemist and philanthropist best known for his work on the Manhattan Project and for founding the interdisciplinary research center, the Santa Fe Institute.
  • A. Arthur Whitten Brown
    Arthur Whitten Brown was a British aviator best known as the navigator on the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1919 alongside pilot John Alcock.
  • B. Victor A. Crutchley
    Victor A. Crutchley was a British Royal Navy admiral and Victoria Cross recipient who served with distinction in both World Wars.
  • C. William Bateman
    William Bateman was a 14th-century English bishop and influential academic patron best known for establishing Trinity Hall at the University of Cambridge.
  • D. William Maxwell Aitken
    William Maxwell Aitken, better known as Lord Beaverbrook, was a powerful Canadian-British newspaper magnate and influential political figure in early 20th-century Britain.
  • E. Harold Briggs
    Harold Briggs was a British Army officer best known for devising and implementing the Briggs Plan to combat communist insurgency during the Malayan Emergency.
  • 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_69a885f27a4c8190a4622252cdf54c00 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a908d78fe48190b155f85deca59639 completed March 5, 2026, 4:38 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adbf3ffc4081909197690046d8ff22 completed March 8, 2026, 6:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adc0a3fdd88190b0ffa98db1b5cf80 completed March 8, 2026, 6:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adc12c894881909c9a82fc9e363a41 completed March 8, 2026, 6:34 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:27 p.m.