Triple

T1657208
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Othmer Gold Medal E35826 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Donald F. Othmer
Donald F. Othmer was an influential American chemical engineer, inventor, and educator known for co-editing the Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology and making major contributions to chemical engineering practice and education.
 E188991 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: Donald F. Othmer | Statement: [Othmer Gold Medal, namedAfter, Donald F. Othmer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Donald F. Othmer
Context triple: [Othmer Gold Medal, namedAfter, Donald F. Othmer]
  • A. Gary S. May
    Gary S. May is an American engineer and academic leader who serves as the chancellor of the University of California, Davis and is known for his advocacy for diversity in STEM education.
  • B. John H. Lienhard
    John H. Lienhard is an American mechanical engineer and educator renowned for his contributions to heat transfer and thermodynamics, as well as for creating the public radio program "The Engines of Our Ingenuity."
  • C. Thomas J. R. Hughes
    Thomas J. R. Hughes is a prominent American applied mathematician and engineer renowned for his pioneering contributions to finite element methods and computational mechanics.
  • D. Melvin Wydler
    Melvin Wydler was a U.S. Congressman whose legislative work on technology and innovation policy led to a federal law being named in his honor.
  • E. Robert G. Bratcher
    Robert G. Bratcher was an American Bible scholar and translator best known as the principal translator of the Good News Bible (Today’s English Version).
  • 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: Donald F. Othmer
Triple: [Othmer Gold Medal, namedAfter, Donald F. Othmer]
Generated description
Donald F. Othmer was an influential American chemical engineer, inventor, and educator known for co-editing the Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology and making major contributions to chemical engineering practice and education.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Donald F. Othmer
Target entity description: Donald F. Othmer was an influential American chemical engineer, inventor, and educator known for co-editing the Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology and making major contributions to chemical engineering practice and education.
  • A. Gary S. May
    Gary S. May is an American engineer and academic leader who serves as the chancellor of the University of California, Davis and is known for his advocacy for diversity in STEM education.
  • B. John H. Lienhard
    John H. Lienhard is an American mechanical engineer and educator renowned for his contributions to heat transfer and thermodynamics, as well as for creating the public radio program "The Engines of Our Ingenuity."
  • C. Thomas J. R. Hughes
    Thomas J. R. Hughes is a prominent American applied mathematician and engineer renowned for his pioneering contributions to finite element methods and computational mechanics.
  • D. Melvin Wydler
    Melvin Wydler was a U.S. Congressman whose legislative work on technology and innovation policy led to a federal law being named in his honor.
  • E. Robert G. Bratcher
    Robert G. Bratcher was an American Bible scholar and translator best known as the principal translator of the Good News Bible (Today’s English Version).
  • 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_69a90a8d85f08190a50ade3f443b7703 completed March 5, 2026, 4:46 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad71ab0ea0819099662964aab9609e completed March 8, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad722796048190a39579e5790dc0a0 completed March 8, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad72a64e0c8190a2b63c78c54896d0 completed March 8, 2026, 12:59 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:29 p.m.