Triple

T2752705
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Smalltalk E61024 entity
Predicate designedBy P184 FINISHED
Object Dan Ingalls
Dan Ingalls is an American computer scientist best known as a principal architect of the Smalltalk programming language and a pioneer of object-oriented programming and graphical user interfaces.
E297063 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: Dan Ingalls | Statement: [Smalltalk, designedBy, Dan Ingalls]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dan Ingalls
Context triple: [Smalltalk, designedBy, Dan Ingalls]
  • A. Guy L. Steele Jr.
    Guy L. Steele Jr. is an American computer scientist renowned for his influential work in programming language design, standards, and implementation, including major contributions to Lisp, Scheme, and Java.
  • B. Hal Abelson
    Hal Abelson is an American computer scientist and MIT professor known for his pioneering work in computer science education, open knowledge, and software freedom.
  • C. Alan Kay
    Alan Kay is a pioneering computer scientist best known for his foundational work on object-oriented programming and the development of the graphical user interface.
  • D. Gerald Jay Sussman
    Gerald Jay Sussman is an American computer scientist and electrical engineer known for his pioneering work in artificial intelligence, the Scheme programming language, and computer science education at MIT.
  • E. Oren Patashnik
    Oren Patashnik is a computer scientist best known for coauthoring the influential textbook "Concrete Mathematics" and for creating the BibTeX reference management tool used with LaTeX.
  • 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: Dan Ingalls
Triple: [Smalltalk, designedBy, Dan Ingalls]
Generated description
Dan Ingalls is an American computer scientist best known as a principal architect of the Smalltalk programming language and a pioneer of object-oriented programming and graphical user interfaces.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dan Ingalls
Target entity description: Dan Ingalls is an American computer scientist best known as a principal architect of the Smalltalk programming language and a pioneer of object-oriented programming and graphical user interfaces.
  • A. Guy L. Steele Jr.
    Guy L. Steele Jr. is an American computer scientist renowned for his influential work in programming language design, standards, and implementation, including major contributions to Lisp, Scheme, and Java.
  • B. Hal Abelson
    Hal Abelson is an American computer scientist and MIT professor known for his pioneering work in computer science education, open knowledge, and software freedom.
  • C. Alan Kay
    Alan Kay is a pioneering computer scientist best known for his foundational work on object-oriented programming and the development of the graphical user interface.
  • D. Gerald Jay Sussman
    Gerald Jay Sussman is an American computer scientist and electrical engineer known for his pioneering work in artificial intelligence, the Scheme programming language, and computer science education at MIT.
  • E. Oren Patashnik
    Oren Patashnik is a computer scientist best known for coauthoring the influential textbook "Concrete Mathematics" and for creating the BibTeX reference management tool used with LaTeX.
  • 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_69ab4b7a85bc819094a349b84beb1f2c completed March 6, 2026, 9:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abdb6ed9c08190824d1866e198ef80 completed March 7, 2026, 8:01 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69afc03e69508190b55a4ad83fca3a45 completed March 10, 2026, 6:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69afc0e092848190889e85f017a7832c completed March 10, 2026, 6:57 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69afc159d0908190b4afe1a6b122076e completed March 10, 2026, 6:59 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:56 p.m.