Triple

T2409170
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award E50345 entity
Predicate notableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Maurice Wilkes
Maurice Wilkes was a pioneering British computer scientist best known for building the EDSAC, one of the first practical stored-program computers, and for introducing microprogramming.
E262498 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: Maurice Wilkes | Statement: [IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award, notableRecipient, Maurice Wilkes]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Maurice Wilkes
Context triple: [IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award, notableRecipient, Maurice Wilkes]
  • A. Howard Aiken
    Howard Aiken was an American engineer and computing pioneer best known for designing the IBM Harvard Mark I, one of the earliest large-scale automatic digital computers.
  • B. J. Presper Eckert
    J. Presper Eckert was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer best known as the co-inventor of ENIAC, one of the earliest general-purpose electronic digital computers.
  • C. John W. Mauchly
    John W. Mauchly was an American physicist and computer engineer best known as the co-inventor of the ENIAC, one of the earliest general-purpose electronic digital computers.
  • D. Fernando J. Corbató
    Fernando J. Corbató was an American computer scientist best known for pioneering time-sharing operating systems and helping to lay the foundations of modern interactive computing.
  • E. John Backus
    John Backus was an American computer scientist best known for leading the development of the Fortran programming language and contributing foundational work to programming language design and formal notation.
  • 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: Maurice Wilkes
Triple: [IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award, notableRecipient, Maurice Wilkes]
Generated description
Maurice Wilkes was a pioneering British computer scientist best known for building the EDSAC, one of the first practical stored-program computers, and for introducing microprogramming.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Maurice Wilkes
Target entity description: Maurice Wilkes was a pioneering British computer scientist best known for building the EDSAC, one of the first practical stored-program computers, and for introducing microprogramming.
  • A. Howard Aiken
    Howard Aiken was an American engineer and computing pioneer best known for designing the IBM Harvard Mark I, one of the earliest large-scale automatic digital computers.
  • B. J. Presper Eckert
    J. Presper Eckert was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer best known as the co-inventor of ENIAC, one of the earliest general-purpose electronic digital computers.
  • C. John W. Mauchly
    John W. Mauchly was an American physicist and computer engineer best known as the co-inventor of the ENIAC, one of the earliest general-purpose electronic digital computers.
  • D. Fernando J. Corbató
    Fernando J. Corbató was an American computer scientist best known for pioneering time-sharing operating systems and helping to lay the foundations of modern interactive computing.
  • E. John Backus
    John Backus was an American computer scientist best known for leading the development of the Fortran programming language and contributing foundational work to programming language design and formal notation.
  • 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_69abc925c6e481909bfd45b361d21963 completed March 7, 2026, 6:43 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aeb3edc63c8190ac6737bf28993f1b 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.