Triple

T16804016
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Putnam Competition E408431 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object William Lowell Putnam
William Lowell Putnam was an American banker and philanthropist best known for endowing the prestigious William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition for undergraduate students in the United States and Canada.
E1235677 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: William Lowell Putnam | Statement: [Putnam Competition, foundedBy, William Lowell Putnam]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Lowell Putnam
Context triple: [Putnam Competition, foundedBy, William Lowell Putnam]
  • A. George Palmer Putnam
    George Palmer Putnam was a prominent 19th-century American publisher and bookseller who played a key role in shaping the U.S. literary and cultural landscape.
  • B. John Charles Fields
    John Charles Fields was a Canadian mathematician best known for founding and endowing the Fields Medal, one of the most prestigious awards in mathematics.
  • C. Lyman J. Briggs
    Lyman J. Briggs was an American physicist and engineer who directed the National Bureau of Standards and played a key role in early U.S. atomic energy research.
  • D. Gardner Hubbard
    Gardner Hubbard was a 19th-century American lawyer, financier, and philanthropist best known as the first president of the Bell Telephone Company and a key early supporter of Alexander Graham Bell.
  • E. John Grier Hibben
    John Grier Hibben was an American philosopher, Presbyterian minister, and educator who served as the 14th president of Princeton University in the early 20th century.
  • 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: William Lowell Putnam
Triple: [Putnam Competition, foundedBy, William Lowell Putnam]
Generated description
William Lowell Putnam was an American banker and philanthropist best known for endowing the prestigious William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition for undergraduate students in the United States and Canada.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Lowell Putnam
Target entity description: William Lowell Putnam was an American banker and philanthropist best known for endowing the prestigious William Lowell Putnam Mathematical Competition for undergraduate students in the United States and Canada.
  • A. George Palmer Putnam
    George Palmer Putnam was a prominent 19th-century American publisher and bookseller who played a key role in shaping the U.S. literary and cultural landscape.
  • B. John Charles Fields
    John Charles Fields was a Canadian mathematician best known for founding and endowing the Fields Medal, one of the most prestigious awards in mathematics.
  • C. Lyman J. Briggs
    Lyman J. Briggs was an American physicist and engineer who directed the National Bureau of Standards and played a key role in early U.S. atomic energy research.
  • D. Gardner Hubbard
    Gardner Hubbard was a 19th-century American lawyer, financier, and philanthropist best known as the first president of the Bell Telephone Company and a key early supporter of Alexander Graham Bell.
  • E. John Grier Hibben
    John Grier Hibben was an American philosopher, Presbyterian minister, and educator who served as the 14th president of Princeton University in the early 20th century.
  • 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_69d88393905081908d00a86b99996ac8 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e3b2ca46f88190b56e81d75012496c completed April 18, 2026, 4:35 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a00b28d3a808190bc94a4f09a10da7e completed May 10, 2026, 4:30 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00b6c7fa8081909792e2607eb1ff73 completed May 10, 2026, 4:48 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00b762cd3c8190aaf47474f60a6181 completed May 10, 2026, 4:50 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:22 a.m.