Triple

T2291679
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Comstock Prize in Physics E51517 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Cyrus B. Comstock
Cyrus B. Comstock was a prominent 19th-century American civil engineer and military officer known for his influential work in engineering and scientific administration, including leadership roles in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the National Academy of Sciences.
E519723 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: Cyrus B. Comstock | Statement: [Comstock Prize in Physics, namedAfter, Cyrus B. Comstock]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cyrus B. Comstock
Context triple: [Comstock Prize in Physics, namedAfter, Cyrus B. Comstock]
  • A. Elias B. Caldwell
    Elias B. Caldwell was an early 19th-century American lawyer and reformer best known as a founding figure of the American Colonization Society, which promoted the resettlement of free African Americans to Africa.
  • B. Charles W. Bingham
    Charles W. Bingham was a prominent American businessman and philanthropist whose contributions to education and public institutions led to buildings such as Bingham Hall being named in his honor.
  • C. Horace W. Peaslee
    Horace W. Peaslee was an American architect best known for designing prominent public monuments and civic buildings in the early to mid-20th century.
  • D. Charles F. Brannan
    Charles F. Brannan was a mid-20th-century U.S. Secretary of Agriculture known for advocating progressive farm policies and New Deal–style agricultural reforms.
  • E. James G. Smyth
    James G. Smyth was a mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of Mont Blanc du Tacul in the Alps.
  • 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: Cyrus B. Comstock
Triple: [Comstock Prize in Physics, namedAfter, Cyrus B. Comstock]
Generated description
Cyrus B. Comstock was a prominent 19th-century American civil engineer and military officer known for his influential work in engineering and scientific administration, including leadership roles in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the National Academy of Sciences.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cyrus B. Comstock
Target entity description: Cyrus B. Comstock was a prominent 19th-century American civil engineer and military officer known for his influential work in engineering and scientific administration, including leadership roles in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the National Academy of Sciences.
  • A. Elias B. Caldwell
    Elias B. Caldwell was an early 19th-century American lawyer and reformer best known as a founding figure of the American Colonization Society, which promoted the resettlement of free African Americans to Africa.
  • B. Charles W. Bingham
    Charles W. Bingham was a prominent American businessman and philanthropist whose contributions to education and public institutions led to buildings such as Bingham Hall being named in his honor.
  • C. Horace W. Peaslee
    Horace W. Peaslee was an American architect best known for designing prominent public monuments and civic buildings in the early to mid-20th century.
  • D. Charles F. Brannan
    Charles F. Brannan was a mid-20th-century U.S. Secretary of Agriculture known for advocating progressive farm policies and New Deal–style agricultural reforms.
  • E. James G. Smyth
    James G. Smyth was a mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of Mont Blanc du Tacul in the Alps.
  • 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_69a88b09c644819090b503456d96bf70 completed March 4, 2026, 7:42 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc5b50df481908a3d8f71d245e8fa completed March 7, 2026, 6:29 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bf3a763c5081909cfb4b209207c859 completed March 22, 2026, 12:40 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bf3b1bfaec8190a9c1cfa734e1a529 completed March 22, 2026, 12:43 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bf3ec2e6c88190a7e965d06455dccd completed March 22, 2026, 12:58 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:48 p.m.