Triple

T2485377
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject De Morgan Medal E55913 entity
Predicate notableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Timothy Gowers
Timothy Gowers is a British mathematician renowned for his work in functional analysis and combinatorics, a Fields Medalist, and a prominent advocate for open access and collaborative mathematics.
 E271119 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: Timothy Gowers | Statement: [De Morgan Medal, notableRecipient, Timothy Gowers]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Timothy Gowers
Context triple: [De Morgan Medal, notableRecipient, Timothy Gowers]
  • A. Terence Tao
    Terence Tao is an Australian-American mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking work in harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, additive combinatorics, and analytic number theory.
  • B. Andrew Wiles
    Andrew Wiles is a British mathematician renowned for proving Fermat’s Last Theorem, resolving a centuries-old problem in number theory.
  • C. David Atiyah
    David Atiyah is one of the sons of the renowned British-Lebanese mathematician Sir Michael Atiyah.
  • D. Michael Atiyah
    Michael Atiyah was a renowned British-Lebanese mathematician celebrated for his fundamental contributions to topology and geometry, including the development of K-theory and the Atiyah–Singer Index Theorem.
  • E. John Edensor Littlewood
    John Edensor Littlewood was a prominent 20th-century British mathematician known for his influential work in analysis, number theory, and the theory of functions, as well as his long and celebrated collaboration with G. H. Hardy.
  • 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: Timothy Gowers
Triple: [De Morgan Medal, notableRecipient, Timothy Gowers]
Generated description
Timothy Gowers is a British mathematician renowned for his work in functional analysis and combinatorics, a Fields Medalist, and a prominent advocate for open access and collaborative mathematics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Timothy Gowers
Target entity description: Timothy Gowers is a British mathematician renowned for his work in functional analysis and combinatorics, a Fields Medalist, and a prominent advocate for open access and collaborative mathematics.
  • A. Terence Tao
    Terence Tao is an Australian-American mathematician renowned for his groundbreaking work in harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, additive combinatorics, and analytic number theory.
  • B. Andrew Wiles
    Andrew Wiles is a British mathematician renowned for proving Fermat’s Last Theorem, resolving a centuries-old problem in number theory.
  • C. David Atiyah
    David Atiyah is one of the sons of the renowned British-Lebanese mathematician Sir Michael Atiyah.
  • D. Michael Atiyah
    Michael Atiyah was a renowned British-Lebanese mathematician celebrated for his fundamental contributions to topology and geometry, including the development of K-theory and the Atiyah–Singer Index Theorem.
  • E. John Edensor Littlewood
    John Edensor Littlewood was a prominent 20th-century British mathematician known for his influential work in analysis, number theory, and the theory of functions, as well as his long and celebrated collaboration with G. H. Hardy.
  • 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_69ab49e670a88190b928e08302381710 completed March 6, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd175f5ac8190870db9c6cb8e45bd completed March 7, 2026, 7:19 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af17ba433481908eccda5c6c6246be completed March 9, 2026, 6:55 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af1bbf545081908e1e51b5c7e4a196 completed March 9, 2026, 7:13 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af1c9c35648190bdeab34ce4032d26 completed March 9, 2026, 7:16 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:45 p.m.