Triple
T23091357
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | John W. Cahn |
E575757
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entity |
| Predicate | fullName |
P16
|
FINISHED |
| Object | John Werner Cahn |
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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: John Werner Cahn | Statement: [John W. Cahn, fullName, John Werner Cahn]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Werner Cahn Context triple: [John W. Cahn, fullName, John Werner Cahn]
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A.
John Werner Cahn
chosen
John Werner Cahn was an influential American materials scientist and physicist known for his pioneering work on phase transformations and the thermodynamics of microstructural evolution in solids.
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B.
Karl Reitz
Karl Reitz is a notable individual distinguished enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Reitz.
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C.
Klaus Kaufmann
Klaus Kaufmann is a German local politician who serves as the mayor of the town of Laichingen in Baden-Württemberg.
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D.
Louis Kraemer
Louis Kraemer was a party to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Shelley v. Kraemer, which held that courts could not enforce racially restrictive housing covenants.
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E.
Fred Herzog
Fred Herzog was a silent film actor active in the 1920s, known for appearing in early American cinema productions.
- 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_69e245bf3e3c819086d3448720efc01b |
completed | April 17, 2026, 2:37 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f18daa68d48190842e9cb6de31ea79 |
completed | April 29, 2026, 4:48 a.m. |
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:57 p.m.