Triple

T17304522
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mario Capecchi E420125 entity
Predicate sharedNobelPrizeWith P1859 FINISHED
Object Oliver Smithies
Oliver Smithies was a British-born American geneticist and Nobel laureate renowned for pioneering gene targeting techniques that revolutionized the creation of genetically modified organisms for biomedical research.
E1262904 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: Oliver Smithies | Statement: [Mario Capecchi, sharedNobelPrizeWith, Oliver Smithies]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Oliver Smithies
Context triple: [Mario Capecchi, sharedNobelPrizeWith, Oliver Smithies]
  • A. Mario Capecchi
    Mario Capecchi is an Italian-born American molecular geneticist and Nobel laureate renowned for developing gene targeting in mouse embryonic stem cells, a breakthrough that revolutionized the study of gene function in mammals.
  • B. Sir Martin Evans
    Sir Martin Evans is a British biologist and Nobel Prize–winning pioneer of embryonic stem cell research whose work enabled the development of genetically modified mice for studying human disease.
  • C. John B. Gurdon
    John B. Gurdon is a British developmental biologist renowned for his pioneering work in nuclear reprogramming and cloning, which demonstrated that mature cells can be reverted to an embryonic state.
  • D. J. Michael Bishop
    J. Michael Bishop is an American immunologist and microbiologist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes, fundamentally advancing cancer biology.
  • E. Phillip A. Sharp
    Phillip A. Sharp is an American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his discovery of RNA splicing and his long-standing research and leadership at MIT.
  • 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: Oliver Smithies
Triple: [Mario Capecchi, sharedNobelPrizeWith, Oliver Smithies]
Generated description
Oliver Smithies was a British-born American geneticist and Nobel laureate renowned for pioneering gene targeting techniques that revolutionized the creation of genetically modified organisms for biomedical research.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Oliver Smithies
Target entity description: Oliver Smithies was a British-born American geneticist and Nobel laureate renowned for pioneering gene targeting techniques that revolutionized the creation of genetically modified organisms for biomedical research.
  • A. Mario Capecchi
    Mario Capecchi is an Italian-born American molecular geneticist and Nobel laureate renowned for developing gene targeting in mouse embryonic stem cells, a breakthrough that revolutionized the study of gene function in mammals.
  • B. Sir Martin Evans
    Sir Martin Evans is a British biologist and Nobel Prize–winning pioneer of embryonic stem cell research whose work enabled the development of genetically modified mice for studying human disease.
  • C. John B. Gurdon
    John B. Gurdon is a British developmental biologist renowned for his pioneering work in nuclear reprogramming and cloning, which demonstrated that mature cells can be reverted to an embryonic state.
  • D. J. Michael Bishop
    J. Michael Bishop is an American immunologist and microbiologist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes, fundamentally advancing cancer biology.
  • E. Phillip A. Sharp
    Phillip A. Sharp is an American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his discovery of RNA splicing and his long-standing research and leadership at MIT.
  • 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_69d886db32608190a61e18862c5a8af6 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e438fe1d408190a429d1dba50d0c58 completed April 19, 2026, 2:07 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a018c440c58819084792fcd6b7a7a79 completed May 11, 2026, 7:59 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a018d9651a48190b8a465741bb5b549 completed May 11, 2026, 8:04 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a018eb4aed881908bf0f6837f373d04 completed May 11, 2026, 8:09 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:41 a.m.