Triple
T18878319
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Ewan Birney |
E461747
|
entity |
| Predicate | doctoralAdvisor |
P167
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Richard Durbin |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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: Richard Durbin | Statement: [Ewan Birney, doctoralAdvisor, Richard Durbin]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Durbin Context triple: [Ewan Birney, doctoralAdvisor, Richard Durbin]
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A.
Dick Durbin
Dick Durbin is a long-serving Democratic U.S. Senator from Illinois who serves as the Senate Majority Whip and is known for his influential role in national legislative and budgetary policy.
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B.
Mike Quigley
Mike Quigley is an American Democratic politician and U.S. Representative known for serving the Chicago-area 5th congressional district in Illinois.
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C.
Jesse White
Jesse White was an American character actor best known for his comedic roles in film and television, including his long-running portrayal of the Maytag repairman in commercials.
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D.
Dan Lipinski
Dan Lipinski is an American Democratic politician who represented Illinois's 3rd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2005 to 2021.
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E.
Ron Kirk
Ron Kirk is an American politician and lawyer who served as mayor of Dallas and later as the United States Trade Representative under President Barack Obama.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Durbin Target entity description: Richard Durbin is a prominent British computational biologist and bioinformatician known for his influential work on genome analysis and contributions to major sequencing projects.
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A.
Dick Durbin
Dick Durbin is a long-serving Democratic U.S. Senator from Illinois who serves as the Senate Majority Whip and is known for his influential role in national legislative and budgetary policy.
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B.
Mike Quigley
Mike Quigley is an American Democratic politician and U.S. Representative known for serving the Chicago-area 5th congressional district in Illinois.
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C.
Jesse White
Jesse White was an American character actor best known for his comedic roles in film and television, including his long-running portrayal of the Maytag repairman in commercials.
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D.
Dan Lipinski
Dan Lipinski is an American Democratic politician who represented Illinois's 3rd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2005 to 2021.
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E.
Ron Kirk
Ron Kirk is an American politician and lawyer who served as mayor of Dallas and later as the United States Trade Representative under President Barack Obama.
- F. None of above. chosen
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_69d8dcfc3430819095ee6fc0eb4c06a5 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e5c3cfc4408190a7ae91459f75be52 |
completed | April 20, 2026, 6:12 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:57 a.m.