Triple

T1717458
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Louis Slotin E37320 entity
Predicate experimentedOn P31889 FINISHED
Object plutonium core later nicknamed "demon core"
The plutonium core later nicknamed the "demon core" was a subcritical mass of plutonium used in Manhattan Project criticality experiments that caused two fatal radiation accidents, including the one that killed physicist Louis Slotin.
E192861 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (5 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: plutonium core later nicknamed "demon core" | Statement: [Louis Slotin, experimentedOn, plutonium core later nicknamed "demon core"]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: plutonium core later nicknamed "demon core"
Context triple: [Louis Slotin, experimentedOn, plutonium core later nicknamed "demon core"]
  • A. K-West Reactor
    K-West Reactor is one of the plutonium production reactors at the Hanford Site in Washington State, historically used to support the U.S. nuclear weapons program.
  • B. X-10 graphite reactor
    The X-10 graphite reactor was an early nuclear reactor at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, built during the Manhattan Project as a pilot plant for plutonium production and a key step toward the development of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy.
  • C. K-25 Project
    The K-25 Project was a World War II–era Manhattan Project effort to build and operate a massive gaseous diffusion plant for uranium enrichment in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
  • D. Chicago Pile-2
    Chicago Pile-2 was an early research nuclear reactor built at the Argonne site to continue and expand experimental work following the first controlled chain reaction achieved by Chicago Pile-1.
  • E. D Reactor
    D Reactor was one of the early plutonium production reactors at the Hanford Site in Washington, built during the Manhattan Project to support the U.S. nuclear weapons program.
  • 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: plutonium core later nicknamed "demon core"
Triple: [Louis Slotin, experimentedOn, plutonium core later nicknamed "demon core"]
Generated description
The plutonium core later nicknamed the "demon core" was a subcritical mass of plutonium used in Manhattan Project criticality experiments that caused two fatal radiation accidents, including the one that killed physicist Louis Slotin.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: plutonium core later nicknamed "demon core"
Target entity description: The plutonium core later nicknamed the "demon core" was a subcritical mass of plutonium used in Manhattan Project criticality experiments that caused two fatal radiation accidents, including the one that killed physicist Louis Slotin.
  • A. K-West Reactor
    K-West Reactor is one of the plutonium production reactors at the Hanford Site in Washington State, historically used to support the U.S. nuclear weapons program.
  • B. X-10 graphite reactor
    The X-10 graphite reactor was an early nuclear reactor at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, built during the Manhattan Project as a pilot plant for plutonium production and a key step toward the development of nuclear weapons and nuclear energy.
  • C. K-25 Project
    The K-25 Project was a World War II–era Manhattan Project effort to build and operate a massive gaseous diffusion plant for uranium enrichment in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
  • D. Chicago Pile-2
    Chicago Pile-2 was an early research nuclear reactor built at the Argonne site to continue and expand experimental work following the first controlled chain reaction achieved by Chicago Pile-1.
  • E. D Reactor
    D Reactor was one of the early plutonium production reactors at the Hanford Site in Washington, built during the Manhattan Project to support the U.S. nuclear weapons program.
  • F. None of above. chosen
PD Predicate disambiguation gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target predicate: experimentedOn
Context triple: [Louis Slotin, experimentedOn, plutonium core later nicknamed "demon core"]
  • A. notableExperiment
    Indicates that an entity is recognized for having conducted or been the subject of a particularly important or influential experiment.
  • B. hasTypeOfExperiment
    Indicates that an experiment is associated with or classified under a specific type or category of experiment.
  • C. experimentNumber
    Indicates the specific identifying number assigned to an experiment within a set of experiments.
  • D. historicalExperiment
    Indicates that an experiment was conducted in the past and is of historical significance or relevance.
  • E. hostsExperiment
    Indicates that one entity provides the environment or infrastructure in which another entity’s experiment is conducted or run.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (7 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_69a8861912dc8190931af43b4b9158a7 completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ab5c96db6c8190a745d6fef7bf2cdb completed March 6, 2026, 11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad8ae6940c81909c1ebdfb0cdef5fc completed March 8, 2026, 2:42 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad957adf1c8190b7c8656c1984f998 completed March 8, 2026, 3:27 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad97af6b388190b2af293599108df3 completed March 8, 2026, 3:37 p.m.
PD Predicate disambiguation batch_69aa61bed2fc819086d912cd34285978 completed March 6, 2026, 5:10 a.m.
PDg Predicate description generation batch_69ab5c7780bc81909fc6e173a216cb0b completed March 6, 2026, 11 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:30 p.m.