Triple
T19080562
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, at Harvard University |
E467019
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entity |
| Predicate | honors |
P2354
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FINISHED |
| Object | Theodore William Richards |
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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: Theodore William Richards | Statement: [Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, at Harvard University, honors, Theodore William Richards]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Theodore William Richards Context triple: [Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, at Harvard University, honors, Theodore William Richards]
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A.
Theodore William Richards
chosen
Theodore William Richards was an American chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his precise determinations of atomic weights, which significantly advanced physical chemistry.
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B.
Gilbert N. Lewis
Gilbert N. Lewis was an influential American physical chemist best known for his work on chemical bonding, the electron-pair theory, and the concept of acids and bases that bear his name.
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C.
Percy W. Bridgman
Percy W. Bridgman was an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in high-pressure physics and for developing the philosophical approach known as operationalism.
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D.
Robert A. Millikan
Robert A. Millikan was an American experimental physicist best known for his oil-drop experiment measuring the electron’s charge and for his Nobel Prize–winning work on the photoelectric effect.
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E.
Edward W. Morley
Edward W. Morley was an American chemist and physicist best known for his collaboration with Albert A. Michelson on the landmark Michelson–Morley experiment that challenged the existence of the luminiferous aether and paved the way for modern physics.
- 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_69d8dd04f4488190b1121cc53ef2bfd6 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e5e2e8f8148190942cca6dd3e30caf |
completed | April 20, 2026, 8:25 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 12:04 p.m.