Triple
T19112023
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Robert Shostak |
E467811
|
entity |
| Predicate | knownFor |
P22
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Byzantine fault tolerance theory |
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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: Byzantine fault tolerance theory | Statement: [Robert Shostak, knownFor, Byzantine fault tolerance theory]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Byzantine fault tolerance theory Context triple: [Robert Shostak, knownFor, Byzantine fault tolerance theory]
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A.
Byzantine fault tolerance
chosen
Byzantine fault tolerance is a property of distributed systems that enables them to continue operating correctly even when some components behave arbitrarily or maliciously.
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B.
Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance
Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance is a consensus algorithm for distributed systems that efficiently tolerates Byzantine (arbitrary) faults, enabling reliable operation even when some nodes behave maliciously or unpredictably.
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C.
Byzantine Generals Problem
The Byzantine Generals Problem is a classic computer science and distributed systems thought experiment that illustrates the difficulty of achieving reliable consensus among participants in the presence of faulty or malicious actors.
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D.
"Reaching Agreement in the Presence of Faults"
"Reaching Agreement in the Presence of Faults" is a seminal paper in distributed computing that introduced the Byzantine Generals Problem and laid the foundations for understanding consensus in unreliable, fault-prone systems.
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E.
FLP impossibility result
The FLP impossibility result is a foundational theorem in distributed computing showing that in an asynchronous system, no deterministic consensus protocol can guarantee both safety and liveness in the presence of even a single crash failure.
- 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_69d8dd06a26481908039e2a1bae8c597 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e5e394969c81909d09b2300ea0e041 |
completed | April 20, 2026, 8:28 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 12:04 p.m.