Triple

T1780311
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Paul Dirac E39274 entity
Predicate doctoralAdvisor P167 FINISHED
Object Ralph Fowler
Ralph Fowler was a prominent British theoretical physicist and mathematician known for his influential work in statistical mechanics and quantum theory, as well as for mentoring leading physicists of the 20th century.
E222157 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: Ralph Fowler | Statement: [Paul Dirac, doctoralAdvisor, Ralph Fowler]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ralph Fowler
Context triple: [Paul Dirac, doctoralAdvisor, Ralph Fowler]
  • A. Robert B. Leighton
    Robert B. Leighton was an American experimental physicist and educator known for his contributions to cosmic-ray and infrared astronomy and for coauthoring the influential Feynman Lectures on Physics.
  • B. Mark Oliphant
    Mark Oliphant was an Australian physicist and pioneer in nuclear physics who played a key role in early atomic research and the development of radar and particle accelerators.
  • C. Murray Feshbach
    Murray Feshbach was an American demographer and scholar known for his pioneering research on Soviet and Russian population, public health, and environmental issues.
  • D. Hugh Longuet-Higgins
    Hugh Longuet-Higgins was a British mathematician and academic, known primarily as the father of theoretical chemist and cognitive scientist Christopher Longuet-Higgins.
  • E. Arthur Geoffrey Walker
    Arthur Geoffrey Walker was a British mathematician and physicist best known for his foundational contributions to relativistic cosmology, particularly the development of the Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker (FLRW) metric.
  • 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: Ralph Fowler
Triple: [Paul Dirac, doctoralAdvisor, Ralph Fowler]
Generated description
Ralph Fowler was a prominent British theoretical physicist and mathematician known for his influential work in statistical mechanics and quantum theory, as well as for mentoring leading physicists of the 20th century.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ralph Fowler
Target entity description: Ralph Fowler was a prominent British theoretical physicist and mathematician known for his influential work in statistical mechanics and quantum theory, as well as for mentoring leading physicists of the 20th century.
  • A. Robert B. Leighton
    Robert B. Leighton was an American experimental physicist and educator known for his contributions to cosmic-ray and infrared astronomy and for coauthoring the influential Feynman Lectures on Physics.
  • B. Mark Oliphant
    Mark Oliphant was an Australian physicist and pioneer in nuclear physics who played a key role in early atomic research and the development of radar and particle accelerators.
  • C. Murray Feshbach
    Murray Feshbach was an American demographer and scholar known for his pioneering research on Soviet and Russian population, public health, and environmental issues.
  • D. Hugh Longuet-Higgins
    Hugh Longuet-Higgins was a British mathematician and academic, known primarily as the father of theoretical chemist and cognitive scientist Christopher Longuet-Higgins.
  • E. Arthur Geoffrey Walker
    Arthur Geoffrey Walker was a British mathematician and physicist best known for his foundational contributions to relativistic cosmology, particularly the development of the Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker (FLRW) metric.
  • 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_69a88630519c8190a17addd83c4a3ef4 completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa64e07bd081908e442c1004cdad61 completed March 6, 2026, 5:23 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae0305b6d08190804da5445e1f54d9 completed March 8, 2026, 11:15 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae03b41dcc81909b4439006bdffc64 completed March 8, 2026, 11:18 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae044314188190a7472cf5f8e89f6c completed March 8, 2026, 11:20 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:31 p.m.