Triple

T2800003
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Shinya Yamanaka E53130 entity
Predicate NobelPrizeSharedWith P1859 FINISHED
Object John B. Gurdon
John B. Gurdon is a British developmental biologist renowned for his pioneering work in nuclear reprogramming and cloning, which demonstrated that mature cells can be reverted to an embryonic state.
E301409 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: John B. Gurdon | Statement: [Shinya Yamanaka, NobelPrizeSharedWith, John B. Gurdon]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John B. Gurdon
Context triple: [Shinya Yamanaka, NobelPrizeSharedWith, John B. Gurdon]
  • A. John Sulston
    John Sulston was a British biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the genetics and cell lineage of the nematode C. elegans and for his leadership in the Human Genome Project.
  • B. Shinya Yamanaka
    Shinya Yamanaka is a Japanese stem cell researcher and Nobel laureate best known for discovering how to reprogram adult cells into induced pluripotent stem cells, revolutionizing regenerative medicine.
  • C. Sydney Brenner
    Sydney Brenner was a pioneering South African biologist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for his foundational work in molecular biology and the use of C. elegans as a model organism.
  • D. Robert Edwards
    Robert Edwards is a British physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate best known for pioneering in vitro fertilization (IVF), which led to the birth of the first “test-tube baby.”
  • E. J. Michael Bishop
    J. Michael Bishop is an American immunologist and microbiologist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes, fundamentally advancing cancer biology.
  • 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: John B. Gurdon
Triple: [Shinya Yamanaka, NobelPrizeSharedWith, John B. Gurdon]
Generated description
John B. Gurdon is a British developmental biologist renowned for his pioneering work in nuclear reprogramming and cloning, which demonstrated that mature cells can be reverted to an embryonic state.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John B. Gurdon
Target entity description: John B. Gurdon is a British developmental biologist renowned for his pioneering work in nuclear reprogramming and cloning, which demonstrated that mature cells can be reverted to an embryonic state.
  • A. John Sulston
    John Sulston was a British biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the genetics and cell lineage of the nematode C. elegans and for his leadership in the Human Genome Project.
  • B. Shinya Yamanaka
    Shinya Yamanaka is a Japanese stem cell researcher and Nobel laureate best known for discovering how to reprogram adult cells into induced pluripotent stem cells, revolutionizing regenerative medicine.
  • C. Sydney Brenner
    Sydney Brenner was a pioneering South African biologist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for his foundational work in molecular biology and the use of C. elegans as a model organism.
  • D. Robert Edwards
    Robert Edwards is a British physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate best known for pioneering in vitro fertilization (IVF), which led to the birth of the first “test-tube baby.”
  • E. J. Michael Bishop
    J. Michael Bishop is an American immunologist and microbiologist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes, fundamentally advancing cancer biology.
  • 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_69ab495a90788190941b6917e1eca3a6 completed March 6, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abddf4ca9c8190a4adfd1c1373af41 completed March 7, 2026, 8:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69afce92b40c8190a6ed3e6c06f15c79 completed March 10, 2026, 7:56 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69afcf3aa64081909fe4007d94df48c2 completed March 10, 2026, 7:58 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69afcfe8a140819095daa37d539e4c72 completed March 10, 2026, 8:01 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:58 p.m.