Triple
T23148329
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | John Werner Cahn |
E578254
|
entity |
| Predicate | givenName |
P17
|
FINISHED |
| Object | John |
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NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (3 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 | Statement: [John Werner Cahn, givenName, John]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Context triple: [John Werner Cahn, givenName, John]
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A.
John
John is the given name of John J. Pershing, the famed American general who led the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I.
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B.
John
John is the given name of John A. Roebling II, an American civil engineer and philanthropist from the prominent Roebling family associated with major bridge construction.
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C.
John
John is the given first name of Johnny Kilbane, an American featherweight boxing champion from the early 20th century.
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D.
John
John is the given name of John Albert William Spencer-Churchill, a British aristocrat and 10th Duke of Marlborough.
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E.
John
John is the given name of John Williams Walker, an early 19th-century American politician and U.S. Senator from Alabama.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Target entity description: John is the given name of John Werner Cahn, an influential American materials scientist and physicist known for his pioneering work in the thermodynamics of microstructural evolution.
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A.
John
chosen
John is the given name of John W. Cahn, a prominent American materials scientist known for his influential work in the theory of phase transformations and materials microstructure.
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B.
John
John is the given name of John Gamble Kirkwood, an influential American theoretical chemist and physicist known for his work in statistical mechanics and molecular theory.
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C.
John
John is the given name of the American chemist John F. Hartwig, renowned for his pioneering work in organometallic chemistry and catalysis.
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D.
John
John is the given name of the influential American theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler, known for his work in quantum mechanics and general relativity.
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E.
John
John is the given name of John Hasbrouck Van Vleck, an American physicist and Nobel laureate known for his pioneering work in quantum mechanics and magnetism.
- F. None of above.
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_69e245fb8de081908f0eba7b5fd75bc4 |
completed | April 17, 2026, 2:38 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f18ecf9e9881908991ede784158f1e |
completed | April 29, 2026, 4:53 a.m. |
Created at: April 17, 2026, 4:01 p.m.