Triple
T21457417
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | MIT Project MAC |
E529378
|
entity |
| Predicate | director |
P255
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Robert Fano |
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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: Robert Fano | Statement: [MIT Project MAC, director, Robert Fano]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Fano Context triple: [MIT Project MAC, director, Robert Fano]
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A.
Robert M. Fano
chosen
Robert M. Fano was an influential Italian-American computer scientist and information theorist known for his foundational contributions to coding theory and for co-developing Shannon–Fano coding.
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B.
Robert E. Blahut
Robert E. Blahut is an American electrical engineer and information theorist known for his influential contributions to coding theory, including the Blahut–Arimoto algorithm, and for authoring foundational texts in the field.
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C.
Paul E. Gray
Paul E. Gray was an American electrical engineer and educator who served as president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and was known for advancing engineering education and university–industry collaboration.
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D.
E. B. Peebles
E. B. Peebles was a prominent local figure in Mobile, Alabama, whose contributions to the community led to the city’s main football stadium being named in his honor.
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E.
Andrew Viterbi
Andrew Viterbi is an Italian-American engineer and co-founder of Qualcomm best known for inventing the Viterbi algorithm, a fundamental method used in digital communication and error correction.
- 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_69e0c458133481908ae8b41a12c4edec |
completed | April 16, 2026, 11:13 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e9e9d7af248190a3bc06a390f390bf |
completed | April 23, 2026, 9:43 a.m. |
Created at: April 16, 2026, 6:08 p.m.