Triple

T210708
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Fluid Dynamics Prize E4710 entity
Predicate hasRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object William C. Reynolds
William C. Reynolds was a prominent American mechanical engineer and fluid dynamicist known for influential contributions to turbulence and compressible flow research.
E139974 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (4 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: William C. Reynolds | Statement: [Fluid Dynamics Prize, hasRecipient, William C. Reynolds]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William C. Reynolds
Context triple: [Fluid Dynamics Prize, hasRecipient, William C. Reynolds]
  • A. William F. Raynolds
    William F. Raynolds was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and explorer known for his surveying and exploratory expeditions in North America and beyond.
  • B. Robert W. Hunt
    Robert W. Hunt was an American engineer and industrialist known for his influential role in the development of the U.S. mining and metallurgical industries and leadership in professional engineering organizations.
  • C. Thoroughgood Marshall
    Thoroughgood Marshall, better known as Thurgood Marshall, was a pioneering American civil rights lawyer and the first African American justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
  • D. Delbert D. Black
    Delbert D. Black was a United States Navy sailor who became the first senior enlisted advisor to the Chief of Naval Operations, helping to shape the modern role and voice of enlisted personnel in the Navy.
  • E. James B. Cobb Jr.
    James B. Cobb Jr. is an American songwriter and guitarist best known as a member of the Classics IV and the Atlanta Rhythm Section, co-writing several soft rock and pop hits of the late 1960s and 1970s.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg Description generation gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. 
You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. 
# Instructions
Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. 
Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: William C. Reynolds
Triple: [Fluid Dynamics Prize, hasRecipient, William C. Reynolds]
Generated description
William C. Reynolds was a prominent American mechanical engineer and fluid dynamicist known for influential contributions to turbulence and compressible flow research.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William C. Reynolds
Target entity description: William C. Reynolds was a prominent American mechanical engineer and fluid dynamicist known for influential contributions to turbulence and compressible flow research.
  • A. William F. Raynolds
    William F. Raynolds was a 19th-century U.S. Army officer and explorer known for his surveying and exploratory expeditions in North America and beyond.
  • B. Robert W. Hunt
    Robert W. Hunt was an American engineer and industrialist known for his influential role in the development of the U.S. mining and metallurgical industries and leadership in professional engineering organizations.
  • C. Thoroughgood Marshall
    Thoroughgood Marshall, better known as Thurgood Marshall, was a pioneering American civil rights lawyer and the first African American justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
  • D. Delbert D. Black
    Delbert D. Black was a United States Navy sailor who became the first senior enlisted advisor to the Chief of Naval Operations, helping to shape the modern role and voice of enlisted personnel in the Navy.
  • E. James B. Cobb Jr.
    James B. Cobb Jr. is an American songwriter and guitarist best known as a member of the Classics IV and the Atlanta Rhythm Section, co-writing several soft rock and pop hits of the late 1960s and 1970s.
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (5 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_69a2575cb1dc8190a01ad332426dc339 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25c2ead8481909996042efcae5e9d completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac82de53808190a105311397acfef6 completed March 7, 2026, 7:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac83f7e00881909675c45e521eb8f1 completed March 7, 2026, 8 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac84de91fc8190b59c0c34247ea6a9 completed March 7, 2026, 8:04 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:52 a.m.