Triple

T231157
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John H. Conway E4412 entity
Predicate coAuthor P398 FINISHED
Object Richard K. Guy
Richard K. Guy was a British-Canadian mathematician renowned for his work in number theory, combinatorics, and recreational mathematics, and for coauthoring influential books that popularized mathematical games and puzzles.
 E31640 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: Richard K. Guy | Statement: [John H. Conway, coAuthor, Richard K. Guy]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Richard K. Guy
Context triple: [John H. Conway, coAuthor, Richard K. Guy]
  • A. John H. Conway
    John H. Conway was a British mathematician renowned for his work in group theory, number theory, and recreational mathematics, including the invention of the cellular automaton "Game of Life."
  • B. Elwyn R. Berlekamp
    Elwyn R. Berlekamp was an American mathematician and engineer known for his influential work in coding theory, combinatorial game theory, and algorithms.
  • C. Harold Davenport
    Harold Davenport was a prominent 20th-century British mathematician renowned for his contributions to number theory and his influential role as a doctoral advisor to many leading mathematicians.
  • D. Martin Gardner
    Martin Gardner was an American popular mathematics and science writer, skeptic, and magician known for his long-running "Mathematical Games" column in Scientific American and his influential work debunking pseudoscience.
  • E. Mark Kac
    Mark Kac was a Polish-American mathematician renowned for his work in probability theory and mathematical physics, particularly for linking stochastic processes with partial differential equations.
  • 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: Richard K. Guy
Triple: [John H. Conway, coAuthor, Richard K. Guy]
Generated description
Richard K. Guy was a British-Canadian mathematician renowned for his work in number theory, combinatorics, and recreational mathematics, and for coauthoring influential books that popularized mathematical games and puzzles.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Richard K. Guy
Target entity description: Richard K. Guy was a British-Canadian mathematician renowned for his work in number theory, combinatorics, and recreational mathematics, and for coauthoring influential books that popularized mathematical games and puzzles.
  • A. John H. Conway
    John H. Conway was a British mathematician renowned for his work in group theory, number theory, and recreational mathematics, including the invention of the cellular automaton "Game of Life."
  • B. Elwyn R. Berlekamp
    Elwyn R. Berlekamp was an American mathematician and engineer known for his influential work in coding theory, combinatorial game theory, and algorithms.
  • C. Harold Davenport
    Harold Davenport was a prominent 20th-century British mathematician renowned for his contributions to number theory and his influential role as a doctoral advisor to many leading mathematicians.
  • D. Martin Gardner
    Martin Gardner was an American popular mathematics and science writer, skeptic, and magician known for his long-running "Mathematical Games" column in Scientific American and his influential work debunking pseudoscience.
  • E. Mark Kac
    Mark Kac was a Polish-American mathematician renowned for his work in probability theory and mathematical physics, particularly for linking stochastic processes with partial differential equations.
  • 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_69a25cadae1c8190be0e8dcf33351187 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:10 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a36ceeaf6081908056040506197a18 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 10:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a36d7b01fc8190a5c596b748bbaa53 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 10:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a36df1839081909c743e1357dd400a completed Feb. 28, 2026, 10:36 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:53 a.m.