Triple
T18602351
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | John Gregory Smith Brainerd |
E454647
|
entity |
| Predicate | collaboratedWith |
P435
|
FINISHED |
| Object | John William Mauchly |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: John William Mauchly | Statement: [John Gregory Smith Brainerd, collaboratedWith, John William Mauchly]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John William Mauchly Context triple: [John Gregory Smith Brainerd, collaboratedWith, John William Mauchly]
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A.
John W. Mauchly
chosen
John W. Mauchly was an American physicist and computer engineer best known as the co-inventor of the ENIAC, one of the earliest general-purpose electronic digital computers.
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B.
James W. Mauchly
James W. Mauchly is the son of computing pioneer John W. Mauchly, co-inventor of the ENIAC computer.
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C.
Kay McNulty Mauchly
Kay McNulty Mauchly was an Irish-American mathematician and one of the pioneering female programmers of the ENIAC, one of the earliest electronic general-purpose computers.
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D.
J. Presper Eckert
J. Presper Eckert was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer best known as the co-inventor of ENIAC, one of the earliest general-purpose electronic digital computers.
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E.
Howard Aiken
Howard Aiken was an American engineer and computing pioneer best known for designing the IBM Harvard Mark I, one of the earliest large-scale automatic digital computers.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69d8d38bbe7c8190bdec3138e7d413c9 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e54751d7ec81909efc4867f649002e |
completed | April 19, 2026, 9:21 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:45 a.m.