Triple

T26840
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Bardeen E537 entity
Predicate coInventorWith P1858 FINISHED
Object Walter Brattain
Walter Brattain was an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known as one of the co-inventors of the transistor.
E16476 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: Walter Brattain | Statement: [John Bardeen, coInventorWith, Walter Brattain]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Brattain
Context triple: [John Bardeen, coInventorWith, Walter Brattain]
  • 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. I. I. Rabi
    I. I. Rabi was a Nobel Prize–winning American physicist renowned for his pioneering work in nuclear magnetic resonance and contributions to quantum physics.
  • D. Ernest O. Lawrence
    Ernest O. Lawrence was an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known for inventing the cyclotron and pioneering nuclear physics research.
  • E. John R. Pierce
    John R. Pierce was an American engineer and scientist best known for his pioneering work in communications technology, including satellite and microwave systems, and for coining the term "transistor."
  • 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: Walter Brattain
Triple: [John Bardeen, coInventorWith, Walter Brattain]
Generated description
Walter Brattain was an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known as one of the co-inventors of the transistor.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Brattain
Target entity description: Walter Brattain was an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known as one of the co-inventors of the transistor.
  • 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. I. I. Rabi
    I. I. Rabi was a Nobel Prize–winning American physicist renowned for his pioneering work in nuclear magnetic resonance and contributions to quantum physics.
  • D. Ernest O. Lawrence
    Ernest O. Lawrence was an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known for inventing the cyclotron and pioneering nuclear physics research.
  • E. John R. Pierce
    John R. Pierce was an American engineer and scientist best known for his pioneering work in communications technology, including satellite and microwave systems, and for coining the term "transistor."
  • 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_69a243b4ac2c8190b93c303df797b7b2 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:24 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2481f9eac819093d9a950eb1ab109 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:42 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a2b4b495c4819084ed1b661f1d0a24 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:26 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a2b5c243e0819087bb4342c5a65eec completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:30 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2b6498fcc819089fcc02806e8f975 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 9:32 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:34 a.m.