Triple
T15989181
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Huffman coding |
E387777
|
entity |
| Predicate | namedAfter |
P63
|
FINISHED |
| Object | David A. Huffman |
E1187484
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: David A. Huffman | Statement: [Huffman coding, namedAfter, David A. Huffman]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David A. Huffman Context triple: [Huffman coding, namedAfter, David A. Huffman]
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A.
David A. Huffman
chosen
David A. Huffman was an American computer scientist best known for inventing Huffman coding, a fundamental lossless data compression algorithm.
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B.
David Huffman
David Huffman was an American film and television actor known for roles in projects such as the Vietnam War drama "A Rumor of War" before his career was cut short by his tragic death in 1985.
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C.
Robert M. Fano
Robert M. Fano was an influential Italian-American computer scientist and information theorist known for his foundational contributions to coding theory and for co-developing Shannon–Fano coding.
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D.
Richard W. Hamming
Richard W. Hamming was an influential American mathematician and computer scientist best known for pioneering work in error-correcting codes and numerical methods.
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E.
Claude Shannon
Claude Shannon was an American mathematician and electrical engineer known as the "father of information theory" for founding the mathematical framework underlying digital communication and data compression.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69d86daa562c81908aacc179c0fe8fb5 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 3:25 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e157829ec08190aa4a683e29a0148a |
completed | April 16, 2026, 9:41 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ffcf1cb1388190b1ebccc6705e5974 |
completed | May 10, 2026, 12:19 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 4:54 a.m.