Triple
T21174767
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Bryce DeWitt |
E521781
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableStudent |
P4838
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Christopher Isham |
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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: Christopher Isham | Statement: [Bryce DeWitt, notableStudent, Christopher Isham]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Christopher Isham Context triple: [Bryce DeWitt, notableStudent, Christopher Isham]
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A.
Mark Isham
Mark Isham is an American composer and musician known for his atmospheric film scores and work in jazz and electronic music.
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B.
Alastair Hignell
Alastair Hignell is a former England rugby union international, first-class cricketer, and later a respected sports broadcaster and advocate for multiple sclerosis awareness.
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C.
Geoffrey Massey
Geoffrey Massey was a prominent Canadian architect known for his influential modernist designs, including major educational and civic projects in British Columbia.
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D.
Giles Townsend
Giles Townsend is a member of the Townsend family, known primarily as a son of British Royal Air Force officer and royal associate Peter Wooldridge Townsend.
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E.
Geoffrey Orbell
Geoffrey Orbell was a New Zealand physician and amateur ornithologist best known for rediscovering the thought-to-be-extinct takahē in 1948.
- 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: Christopher Isham Target entity description: Christopher Isham is a British theoretical physicist known for his work on quantum gravity, quantum cosmology, and the foundations of quantum theory.
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A.
Mark Isham
Mark Isham is an American composer and musician known for his atmospheric film scores and work in jazz and electronic music.
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B.
Alastair Hignell
Alastair Hignell is a former England rugby union international, first-class cricketer, and later a respected sports broadcaster and advocate for multiple sclerosis awareness.
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C.
Geoffrey Massey
Geoffrey Massey was a prominent Canadian architect known for his influential modernist designs, including major educational and civic projects in British Columbia.
-
D.
Giles Townsend
Giles Townsend is a member of the Townsend family, known primarily as a son of British Royal Air Force officer and royal associate Peter Wooldridge Townsend.
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E.
Geoffrey Orbell
Geoffrey Orbell was a New Zealand physician and amateur ornithologist best known for rediscovering the thought-to-be-extinct takahē in 1948.
- 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_69e0b50e30748190b186824a206d39b9 |
completed | April 16, 2026, 10:08 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e7271597288190b04baff9ca8d866c |
completed | April 21, 2026, 7:28 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 3 p.m.