Triple
T23028430
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Carothers equation |
E573389
|
entity |
| Predicate | namedAfter |
P63
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Wallace Hume Carothers |
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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: Wallace Hume Carothers | Statement: [Carothers equation, namedAfter, Wallace Hume Carothers]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wallace Hume Carothers Context triple: [Carothers equation, namedAfter, Wallace Hume Carothers]
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A.
Wallace H. Carothers
chosen
Wallace H. Carothers was an American chemist at DuPont best known for pioneering polymer chemistry and leading the invention of nylon.
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B.
Roy J. Plunkett
Roy J. Plunkett was an American chemist best known for accidentally discovering the nonstick polymer polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE), later trademarked as Teflon, while working for DuPont in 1938.
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C.
Leo Baekeland
Leo Baekeland was a Belgian-American chemist and inventor best known for creating Bakelite, the first fully synthetic plastic, which revolutionized the plastics industry.
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D.
Paul J. Flory
Paul J. Flory was an American chemist renowned for his pioneering work in polymer chemistry, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1974.
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E.
Herbert Henry Dow
Herbert Henry Dow was an American chemical industrialist and inventor who founded the Dow Chemical Company and pioneered modern methods of extracting and producing chemicals.
- 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_69e245b821008190b0e09cb02092aae1 |
completed | April 17, 2026, 2:37 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f1847f453881909a8f2affb48c64f1 |
completed | April 29, 2026, 4:09 a.m. |
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:52 p.m.