Triple
T16574904
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Shing-Tung Yau |
E402683
|
entity |
| Predicate | doctoralAdvisor |
P167
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Shiing-Shen Chern |
E47895
|
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: Shiing-Shen Chern | Statement: [Shing-Tung Yau, doctoralAdvisor, Shiing-Shen Chern]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shiing-Shen Chern Context triple: [Shing-Tung Yau, doctoralAdvisor, Shiing-Shen Chern]
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A.
Shiing-Shen Chern
chosen
Shiing-Shen Chern was a Chinese-American mathematician renowned for his foundational contributions to differential geometry and the development of Chern classes in topology.
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B.
Shing-Tung Yau
Shing-Tung Yau is a Chinese-American mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking work in differential geometry and geometric analysis, including the proof of the Calabi conjecture and the development of Calabi–Yau manifolds.
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C.
Eugenio Calabi
Eugenio Calabi is an Italian-American mathematician renowned for his foundational work in differential geometry, particularly the conjecture that led to the theory of Calabi–Yau manifolds.
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D.
Friedrich Hirzebruch
Friedrich Hirzebruch was a German mathematician renowned for his foundational work in topology and algebraic geometry, particularly the Hirzebruch–Riemann–Roch theorem.
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E.
Kunihiko Kodaira
Kunihiko Kodaira was a Japanese mathematician renowned for his foundational work in algebraic geometry and complex manifolds, for which he received the Fields Medal in 1954.
- 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_69d88387363c8190a97a0c942130de97 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e3595bbbbc8190b023f4872908c031 |
completed | April 18, 2026, 10:13 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a007595cfd08190bae54d29427a1d3c |
completed | May 10, 2026, 12:09 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:16 a.m.