Triple

T1656640
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Edward W. Morley E35813 entity
Predicate notableStudent P4838 FINISHED
Object Dayton C. Miller
Dayton C. Miller was an American physicist and acoustician known for his work on interferometry, precision measurements of the ether drift, and extensive studies of musical acoustics and instruments.
E190529 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: Dayton C. Miller | Statement: [Edward W. Morley, notableStudent, Dayton C. Miller]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dayton C. Miller
Context triple: [Edward W. Morley, notableStudent, Dayton C. Miller]
  • A. Edward W. Morley
    Edward W. Morley was an American chemist and physicist best known for his collaboration with Albert A. Michelson on the landmark Michelson–Morley experiment that challenged the existence of the luminiferous aether and paved the way for modern physics.
  • B. Lyman Cornelius Smith
    Lyman Cornelius Smith was an American industrialist and entrepreneur best known for his role in the typewriter and firearms industries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. Frank B. Jewett
    Frank B. Jewett was an American electrical engineer and physicist who served as the first president of Bell Telephone Laboratories and played a major role in organizing U.S. scientific research during World War II.
  • D. Edward Levi
    Edward Levi was an American legal scholar and former president of the University of Chicago who served as U.S. Attorney General, where he is credited with restoring integrity to the Justice Department after the Watergate scandal.
  • E. Percy W. Bridgman
    Percy W. Bridgman was an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in high-pressure physics and for developing the philosophical approach known as operationalism.
  • 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: Dayton C. Miller
Triple: [Edward W. Morley, notableStudent, Dayton C. Miller]
Generated description
Dayton C. Miller was an American physicist and acoustician known for his work on interferometry, precision measurements of the ether drift, and extensive studies of musical acoustics and instruments.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dayton C. Miller
Target entity description: Dayton C. Miller was an American physicist and acoustician known for his work on interferometry, precision measurements of the ether drift, and extensive studies of musical acoustics and instruments.
  • A. Edward W. Morley
    Edward W. Morley was an American chemist and physicist best known for his collaboration with Albert A. Michelson on the landmark Michelson–Morley experiment that challenged the existence of the luminiferous aether and paved the way for modern physics.
  • B. Lyman Cornelius Smith
    Lyman Cornelius Smith was an American industrialist and entrepreneur best known for his role in the typewriter and firearms industries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. Frank B. Jewett
    Frank B. Jewett was an American electrical engineer and physicist who served as the first president of Bell Telephone Laboratories and played a major role in organizing U.S. scientific research during World War II.
  • D. Edward Levi
    Edward Levi was an American legal scholar and former president of the University of Chicago who served as U.S. Attorney General, where he is credited with restoring integrity to the Justice Department after the Watergate scandal.
  • E. Percy W. Bridgman
    Percy W. Bridgman was an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in high-pressure physics and for developing the philosophical approach known as operationalism.
  • 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_69a88606aa808190aa0b421b4271f220 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb4535180819088e3bdaa591dcdbd completed March 7, 2026, 5:14 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad798680088190a24dd968aab1baf0 completed March 8, 2026, 1:28 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad79e2025881909bd95931293a33c5 completed March 8, 2026, 1:30 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad7a6534608190866b4bf210d888ca completed March 8, 2026, 1:32 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:29 p.m.