Triple

T229012
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Emmy Noether E4369 entity
Predicate influenced P9 FINISHED
Object Saunders Mac Lane
Saunders Mac Lane was an American mathematician best known as a co-founder of category theory and for his influential work in algebra and homological algebra.
 E29380 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: Saunders Mac Lane | Statement: [Emmy Noether, influenced, Saunders Mac Lane]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Saunders Mac Lane
Context triple: [Emmy Noether, influenced, Saunders Mac Lane]
  • A. Isadore Singer
    Isadore Singer was an American mathematician renowned for co-formulating the Atiyah–Singer Index Theorem, a foundational result linking analysis, topology, and geometry.
  • B. Hermann Weyl
    Hermann Weyl was a German mathematician and theoretical physicist renowned for his foundational contributions to group theory, differential geometry, and the mathematical formulation of gauge theory in modern physics.
  • C. Albert W. Tucker
    Albert W. Tucker was a Canadian-born American mathematician best known for his influential work in game theory and topology, including formulating the Prisoner’s Dilemma and mentoring John Nash.
  • D. Zellig Harris
    Zellig Harris was an influential American linguist known for his pioneering work in structural linguistics and discourse analysis, and for mentoring Noam Chomsky.
  • E. Constantin Carathéodory
    Constantin Carathéodory was a prominent Greek-German mathematician known for his influential work in real analysis, the calculus of variations, and the foundations of thermodynamics.
  • 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: Saunders Mac Lane
Triple: [Emmy Noether, influenced, Saunders Mac Lane]
Generated description
Saunders Mac Lane was an American mathematician best known as a co-founder of category theory and for his influential work in algebra and homological algebra.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Saunders Mac Lane
Target entity description: Saunders Mac Lane was an American mathematician best known as a co-founder of category theory and for his influential work in algebra and homological algebra.
  • A. Isadore Singer
    Isadore Singer was an American mathematician renowned for co-formulating the Atiyah–Singer Index Theorem, a foundational result linking analysis, topology, and geometry.
  • B. Hermann Weyl
    Hermann Weyl was a German mathematician and theoretical physicist renowned for his foundational contributions to group theory, differential geometry, and the mathematical formulation of gauge theory in modern physics.
  • C. Albert W. Tucker
    Albert W. Tucker was a Canadian-born American mathematician best known for his influential work in game theory and topology, including formulating the Prisoner’s Dilemma and mentoring John Nash.
  • D. Zellig Harris
    Zellig Harris was an influential American linguist known for his pioneering work in structural linguistics and discourse analysis, and for mentoring Noam Chomsky.
  • E. Constantin Carathéodory
    Constantin Carathéodory was a prominent Greek-German mathematician known for his influential work in real analysis, the calculus of variations, and the foundations of thermodynamics.
  • 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_69a257363ffc81909757bde7ab3404da completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25c9140c48190b90647400854b37e completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:10 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a35b66359481908daf0412badd76bc completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a35d280c8c81909dd05d5c45ffe616 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:24 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a35dc9ad808190a93a4a4c062ce69c completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:27 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:53 a.m.