Triple
T16804016
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Putnam Competition |
E408431
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entity |
| Predicate | foundedBy |
P104
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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
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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]
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.