Triple

T2882647
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Christiaan E59431 entity
Predicate hasFamousBearer P458 FINISHED
Object Christiaan Barnard
Christiaan Barnard was a South African cardiac surgeon best known for performing the world’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant in 1967.
 E307051 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: Christiaan Barnard | Statement: [Christiaan, hasFamousBearer, Christiaan Barnard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Christiaan Barnard
Context triple: [Christiaan, hasFamousBearer, Christiaan Barnard]
  • A. William Van Breda Kolff
    William "Butch" van Breda Kolff was an American basketball coach best known for leading several NBA and college teams, including the Los Angeles Lakers, during the 1960s and 1970s.
  • B. Michael E. DeBakey
    Michael E. DeBakey was a pioneering American cardiovascular surgeon and medical innovator whose work revolutionized heart surgery and biomedical research.
  • C. Jan van Breda Kolff
    Jan van Breda Kolff is an American former professional basketball player and coach known for his collegiate coaching stints at schools such as Vanderbilt and Pepperdine.
  • D. Niels Arestrup
    Niels Arestrup is a French actor and filmmaker renowned for his intense, character-driven performances in both French cinema and international films.
  • E. Alexis Carrel
    Alexis Carrel was a French surgeon and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine, known for his pioneering work in vascular suturing and organ transplantation.
  • 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: Christiaan Barnard
Triple: [Christiaan, hasFamousBearer, Christiaan Barnard]
Generated description
Christiaan Barnard was a South African cardiac surgeon best known for performing the world’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant in 1967.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Christiaan Barnard
Target entity description: Christiaan Barnard was a South African cardiac surgeon best known for performing the world’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant in 1967.
  • A. William Van Breda Kolff
    William "Butch" van Breda Kolff was an American basketball coach best known for leading several NBA and college teams, including the Los Angeles Lakers, during the 1960s and 1970s.
  • B. Michael E. DeBakey
    Michael E. DeBakey was a pioneering American cardiovascular surgeon and medical innovator whose work revolutionized heart surgery and biomedical research.
  • C. Jan van Breda Kolff
    Jan van Breda Kolff is an American former professional basketball player and coach known for his collegiate coaching stints at schools such as Vanderbilt and Pepperdine.
  • D. Niels Arestrup
    Niels Arestrup is a French actor and filmmaker renowned for his intense, character-driven performances in both French cinema and international films.
  • E. Alexis Carrel
    Alexis Carrel was a French surgeon and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine, known for his pioneering work in vascular suturing and organ transplantation.
  • 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_69ab4ac739188190a112f42a5a69c951 completed March 6, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abe02c238881908f7a349563c388bf completed March 7, 2026, 8:22 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b03167d7dc819093e91e0d42f3de6f completed March 10, 2026, 2:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b03549ed388190b478614397076361 completed March 10, 2026, 3:14 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b035f849888190a5b9ee15aa456522 completed March 10, 2026, 3:17 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 10:03 p.m.