Triple

T18829676
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Colin Reese E460489 entity
Predicate supervisedDoctoralResearchOf P16021 FINISHED
Object John Sulston — NE NERFINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

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 Sulston | Statement: [Colin Reese, supervisedDoctoralResearchOf, John Sulston]

Disambiguation candidates (1 decision)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Sulston
Context triple: [Colin Reese, supervisedDoctoralResearchOf, John Sulston]
  • A. John Sulston chosen
    John Sulston was a British biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the genetics and cell lineage of the nematode C. elegans and for his leadership in the Human Genome Project.
  • B. Sydney Brenner
    Sydney Brenner was a pioneering South African biologist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for his foundational work in molecular biology and the use of C. elegans as a model organism.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Sir Tim Hunt
    Sir Tim Hunt is a British biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate recognized for his discovery of key regulators of the cell cycle.
  • E. 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.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (2 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69d8dcf94c288190a06dea029ae4b223 elicitation completed
NER batch_69e5a9981be88190b709c0e72ad3f7e6 ner completed
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:56 a.m.