Triple
T2228105
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Kip Thorne |
E48699
|
entity |
| Predicate | nobelCoLaureate |
P1618
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Barry C. Barish |
E203675
|
NE FINISHED |
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: Barry C. Barish | Statement: [Kip Thorne, nobelCoLaureate, Barry C. Barish]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Barry C. Barish Context triple: [Kip Thorne, nobelCoLaureate, Barry C. Barish]
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A.
Barry C. Barish
chosen
Barry C. Barish is an American experimental physicist best known for his leading role in the LIGO project that made the first direct detection of gravitational waves and earned him a share of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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B.
Rainer Weiss
Rainer Weiss is an American physicist best known as a co-founder of the LIGO project and a Nobel laureate for his pioneering work in the direct detection of gravitational waves.
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C.
John C. Mather
John C. Mather is an American astrophysicist and cosmologist, Nobel Prize laureate, and a leading scientist behind NASA’s Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) mission that helped confirm the Big Bang theory.
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D.
James M. Bardeen
James M. Bardeen is an American theoretical physicist known for his influential work in general relativity and black hole physics, including contributions to the understanding of Hawking radiation and cosmological perturbation theory.
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E.
George F. Smoot
George F. Smoot is an American astrophysicist and cosmologist best known for his Nobel Prize–winning work on cosmic microwave background radiation, which provided strong evidence for the Big Bang theory.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69a88aa51b388190949868ec9766e587 |
completed | March 4, 2026, 7:40 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abc5b262488190b6455d1d28d2306d |
completed | March 7, 2026, 6:29 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ae6afe4d1481908c6c27e889303892 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 6:38 a.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:47 p.m.