Triple

T1797131
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Persi Diaconis E39629 entity
Predicate doctoralAdvisor P167 FINISHED
Object Fred Mosteller
Fred Mosteller was an influential American statistician and educator known for his pioneering work in mathematical statistics, statistics education, and applications of statistics to public policy and medicine.
E203108 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: Fred Mosteller | Statement: [Persi Diaconis, doctoralAdvisor, Fred Mosteller]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fred Mosteller
Context triple: [Persi Diaconis, doctoralAdvisor, Fred Mosteller]
  • A. John W. Tukey
    John W. Tukey was an influential American mathematician and statistician best known for coining the term "bit," developing exploratory data analysis, and creating the box plot and the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm.
  • B. Dennis Michie
    Dennis Michie was a U.S. Army officer and early football coach at West Point who is honored as the namesake of the United States Military Academy’s Michie Stadium.
  • C. Kenneth C. Royall
    Kenneth C. Royall was an American lawyer, military officer, and politician who served as the last U.S. Secretary of War before becoming the first Secretary of the Army.
  • D. Solomon Kullback
    Solomon Kullback was an American statistician and cryptanalyst best known for co-developing the Kullback–Leibler divergence, a fundamental concept in information theory and statistics.
  • E. Warren Weaver
    Warren Weaver was an American scientist, mathematician, and science administrator known for his influential work in communication theory and for helping popularize Claude Shannon’s information 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: Fred Mosteller
Triple: [Persi Diaconis, doctoralAdvisor, Fred Mosteller]
Generated description
Fred Mosteller was an influential American statistician and educator known for his pioneering work in mathematical statistics, statistics education, and applications of statistics to public policy and medicine.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Fred Mosteller
Target entity description: Fred Mosteller was an influential American statistician and educator known for his pioneering work in mathematical statistics, statistics education, and applications of statistics to public policy and medicine.
  • A. John W. Tukey
    John W. Tukey was an influential American mathematician and statistician best known for coining the term "bit," developing exploratory data analysis, and creating the box plot and the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) algorithm.
  • B. Dennis Michie
    Dennis Michie was a U.S. Army officer and early football coach at West Point who is honored as the namesake of the United States Military Academy’s Michie Stadium.
  • C. Kenneth C. Royall
    Kenneth C. Royall was an American lawyer, military officer, and politician who served as the last U.S. Secretary of War before becoming the first Secretary of the Army.
  • D. Solomon Kullback
    Solomon Kullback was an American statistician and cryptanalyst best known for co-developing the Kullback–Leibler divergence, a fundamental concept in information theory and statistics.
  • E. Warren Weaver
    Warren Weaver was an American scientist, mathematician, and science administrator known for his influential work in communication theory and for helping popularize Claude Shannon’s information 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_69a88632aa588190ba3978fde0db5bbd completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa6566cd808190a67f33ad47d8ca8e completed March 6, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adbf5645808190a774d96cfe5c5e58 completed March 8, 2026, 6:26 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adbff135188190908058a2e2d41a1e completed March 8, 2026, 6:29 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adc0832cd881909702f380412702d5 completed March 8, 2026, 6:31 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:32 p.m.