Triple

T1767819
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Albert Einstein Medal E38803 entity
Predicate hasRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Rainer Weiss
Rainer Weiss is an American physicist best known as a co-founder of the LIGO project and a Nobel laureate for his pioneering work in the direct detection of gravitational waves.
E201607 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: Rainer Weiss | Statement: [Albert Einstein Medal, hasRecipient, Rainer Weiss]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rainer Weiss
Context triple: [Albert Einstein Medal, hasRecipient, Rainer Weiss]
  • A. Robert H. Dicke
    Robert H. Dicke was an influential American physicist known for his pioneering work in gravitation, cosmology, and microwave physics, including contributions that helped establish the Big Bang theory.
  • B. John C. Mather
    John C. Mather is an American astrophysicist and cosmologist, Nobel Prize laureate, and a leading scientist behind NASA’s Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) mission that helped confirm the Big Bang theory.
  • C. George F. Smoot
    George F. Smoot is an American astrophysicist and cosmologist best known for his Nobel Prize–winning work on cosmic microwave background radiation, which provided strong evidence for the Big Bang theory.
  • D. Arno Penzias
    Arno Penzias is a Nobel Prize–winning physicist best known for his co-discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation, which provided key evidence for the Big Bang theory.
  • E. James M. Bardeen
    James M. Bardeen is an American theoretical physicist known for his influential work in general relativity and black hole physics, including contributions to the understanding of Hawking radiation and cosmological perturbation theory.
  • 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: Rainer Weiss
Triple: [Albert Einstein Medal, hasRecipient, Rainer Weiss]
Generated description
Rainer Weiss is an American physicist best known as a co-founder of the LIGO project and a Nobel laureate for his pioneering work in the direct detection of gravitational waves.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rainer Weiss
Target entity description: Rainer Weiss is an American physicist best known as a co-founder of the LIGO project and a Nobel laureate for his pioneering work in the direct detection of gravitational waves.
  • A. Robert H. Dicke
    Robert H. Dicke was an influential American physicist known for his pioneering work in gravitation, cosmology, and microwave physics, including contributions that helped establish the Big Bang theory.
  • B. John C. Mather
    John C. Mather is an American astrophysicist and cosmologist, Nobel Prize laureate, and a leading scientist behind NASA’s Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) mission that helped confirm the Big Bang theory.
  • C. George F. Smoot
    George F. Smoot is an American astrophysicist and cosmologist best known for his Nobel Prize–winning work on cosmic microwave background radiation, which provided strong evidence for the Big Bang theory.
  • D. Arno Penzias
    Arno Penzias is a Nobel Prize–winning physicist best known for his co-discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation, which provided key evidence for the Big Bang theory.
  • E. James M. Bardeen
    James M. Bardeen is an American theoretical physicist known for his influential work in general relativity and black hole physics, including contributions to the understanding of Hawking radiation and cosmological perturbation theory.
  • 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_69a8862e61708190af97b9838cc3f5de completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa648bb44c81909245fb7ee23cb132 completed March 6, 2026, 5:22 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adb5c727e48190b934e9b97b084c7a completed March 8, 2026, 5:45 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adb8b3c0a48190bf5f3a32d8862c54 completed March 8, 2026, 5:58 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adb97b8c8081909a806d16efd5882b completed March 8, 2026, 6:01 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:31 p.m.