Triple

T2407141
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Golden Gate National Cemetery E50301 entity
Predicate hasGraveOf P196 FINISHED
Object William R. Shockley
William R. Shockley was a United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient for his actions during World War II.
E262375 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: William R. Shockley | Statement: [Golden Gate National Cemetery, hasGraveOf, William R. Shockley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William R. Shockley
Context triple: [Golden Gate National Cemetery, hasGraveOf, William R. Shockley]
  • A. William Shockley
    William Shockley was an American physicist and co-inventor of the transistor whose work helped launch the field of solid-state electronics and earned him a share of the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics.
  • B. John Bardeen
    John Bardeen was an American physicist and electrical engineer, uniquely renowned for being the only person to win the Nobel Prize in Physics twice for his work on the transistor and superconductivity.
  • C. Walter Brattain
    Walter Brattain was an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known as one of the co-inventors of the transistor.
  • D. Jean Hoerni
    Jean Hoerni was a Swiss-born physicist and engineer best known for inventing the planar process, a foundational technology that enabled the modern semiconductor and integrated circuit industry.
  • E. John Giaever
    John Giaever is the son of Norwegian-American physicist and Nobel laureate Ivar Giaever.
  • 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: William R. Shockley
Triple: [Golden Gate National Cemetery, hasGraveOf, William R. Shockley]
Generated description
William R. Shockley was a United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient for his actions during World War II.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William R. Shockley
Target entity description: William R. Shockley was a United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient for his actions during World War II.
  • A. William Shockley
    William Shockley was an American physicist and co-inventor of the transistor whose work helped launch the field of solid-state electronics and earned him a share of the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics.
  • B. John Bardeen
    John Bardeen was an American physicist and electrical engineer, uniquely renowned for being the only person to win the Nobel Prize in Physics twice for his work on the transistor and superconductivity.
  • C. Walter Brattain
    Walter Brattain was an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known as one of the co-inventors of the transistor.
  • D. Jean Hoerni
    Jean Hoerni was a Swiss-born physicist and engineer best known for inventing the planar process, a foundational technology that enabled the modern semiconductor and integrated circuit industry.
  • E. John Giaever
    John Giaever is the son of Norwegian-American physicist and Nobel laureate Ivar Giaever.
  • 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_69a88b0339a88190a1207333cd271cc9 completed March 4, 2026, 7:41 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc8fcd3008190b27325e6829ae7ce completed March 7, 2026, 6:43 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aeb3eba9d08190a2c63e590e08b4df completed March 9, 2026, 11:50 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aeb4a5e9c481908426fe51343a1342 completed March 9, 2026, 11:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aeb52bec1881909c589aea2af3684c completed March 9, 2026, 11:55 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:58 p.m.