Triple

T1617683
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Columbia Accident Investigation Board E34756 entity
Predicate member P10 FINISHED
Object Douglas D. Osheroff
Douglas D. Osheroff is an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on superfluidity in helium-3 and his contributions to major scientific investigations.
E183140 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: Douglas D. Osheroff | Statement: [Columbia Accident Investigation Board, member, Douglas D. Osheroff]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Douglas D. Osheroff
Context triple: [Columbia Accident Investigation Board, member, Douglas D. Osheroff]
  • A. John Robert Schrieffer
    John Robert Schrieffer was an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known as one of the co-creators of the BCS theory of superconductivity.
  • B. Philip Anderson
    Philip Anderson was a Nobel Prize–winning American physicist renowned for his pioneering work in condensed matter physics and the theory of localization.
  • C. James M. Bardeen
    James M. Bardeen is an American theoretical physicist known for his influential work in general relativity and black hole physics, including contributions to the understanding of Hawking radiation and cosmological perturbation theory.
  • D. William A. Bardeen
    William A. Bardeen is an American theoretical physicist known for his influential work in quantum field theory and particle physics, particularly in the study of anomalies.
  • E. Leon Cooper
    Leon Cooper is an American physicist best known as one of the co-developers of the BCS theory of superconductivity, for which he shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics.
  • 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: Douglas D. Osheroff
Triple: [Columbia Accident Investigation Board, member, Douglas D. Osheroff]
Generated description
Douglas D. Osheroff is an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on superfluidity in helium-3 and his contributions to major scientific investigations.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Douglas D. Osheroff
Target entity description: Douglas D. Osheroff is an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on superfluidity in helium-3 and his contributions to major scientific investigations.
  • A. John Robert Schrieffer
    John Robert Schrieffer was an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known as one of the co-creators of the BCS theory of superconductivity.
  • B. Philip Anderson
    Philip Anderson was a Nobel Prize–winning American physicist renowned for his pioneering work in condensed matter physics and the theory of localization.
  • C. James M. Bardeen
    James M. Bardeen is an American theoretical physicist known for his influential work in general relativity and black hole physics, including contributions to the understanding of Hawking radiation and cosmological perturbation theory.
  • D. William A. Bardeen
    William A. Bardeen is an American theoretical physicist known for his influential work in quantum field theory and particle physics, particularly in the study of anomalies.
  • E. Leon Cooper
    Leon Cooper is an American physicist best known as one of the co-developers of the BCS theory of superconductivity, for which he shared the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics.
  • 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_69a885ffc5ec819091afa325d5f9611c completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a909addb348190a80a97422efcaa63 completed March 5, 2026, 4:42 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad51cf7b7c8190847ab6795fb5613b completed March 8, 2026, 10:39 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad52dee83c819080b58e67dcd7bb2b completed March 8, 2026, 10:43 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad534ab0d88190acaa8a5e66fcb0d6 completed March 8, 2026, 10:45 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:28 p.m.