Triple
T2974300
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | K. Barry Sharpless |
E80355
|
entity |
| Predicate | sharesNobelPrizeWith |
P1859
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
William S. Knowles
William S. Knowles was an American chemist and Nobel laureate recognized for pioneering work in asymmetric hydrogenation, a key advance in chiral catalysis and pharmaceutical synthesis.
|
E322883
|
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: William S. Knowles | Statement: [K. Barry Sharpless, sharesNobelPrizeWith, William S. Knowles]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William S. Knowles Context triple: [K. Barry Sharpless, sharesNobelPrizeWith, William S. Knowles]
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A.
K. Barry Sharpless
K. Barry Sharpless is an American chemist renowned for his pioneering work in asymmetric synthesis and for co-founding the field of click chemistry, achievements that earned him multiple Nobel Prizes in Chemistry.
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B.
Elias J. Corey
Elias J. Corey is a Nobel Prize–winning American chemist renowned for pioneering the field of retrosynthetic analysis and revolutionizing modern organic synthesis.
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C.
Albert Eschenmoser
Albert Eschenmoser is a Swiss organic chemist renowned for his pioneering work on the structure and synthesis of vitamin B12 and for fundamental contributions to the understanding of organic reaction mechanisms and prebiotic chemistry.
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D.
John Warcup Cornforth
John Warcup Cornforth was an Australian–British chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions.
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E.
Herbert C. Brown
Herbert C. Brown was a Nobel Prize–winning American chemist renowned for his pioneering work on boron-containing compounds and hydroboration reactions.
- 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: William S. Knowles Triple: [K. Barry Sharpless, sharesNobelPrizeWith, William S. Knowles]
Generated description
William S. Knowles was an American chemist and Nobel laureate recognized for pioneering work in asymmetric hydrogenation, a key advance in chiral catalysis and pharmaceutical synthesis.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William S. Knowles Target entity description: William S. Knowles was an American chemist and Nobel laureate recognized for pioneering work in asymmetric hydrogenation, a key advance in chiral catalysis and pharmaceutical synthesis.
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A.
K. Barry Sharpless
K. Barry Sharpless is an American chemist renowned for his pioneering work in asymmetric synthesis and for co-founding the field of click chemistry, achievements that earned him multiple Nobel Prizes in Chemistry.
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B.
Elias J. Corey
Elias J. Corey is a Nobel Prize–winning American chemist renowned for pioneering the field of retrosynthetic analysis and revolutionizing modern organic synthesis.
-
C.
Albert Eschenmoser
Albert Eschenmoser is a Swiss organic chemist renowned for his pioneering work on the structure and synthesis of vitamin B12 and for fundamental contributions to the understanding of organic reaction mechanisms and prebiotic chemistry.
-
D.
John Warcup Cornforth
John Warcup Cornforth was an Australian–British chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on the stereochemistry of enzyme-catalyzed reactions.
-
E.
Herbert C. Brown
Herbert C. Brown was a Nobel Prize–winning American chemist renowned for his pioneering work on boron-containing compounds and hydroboration reactions.
- 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_69ad8b14ffe881908ffed62f9595c867 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69ad99894bb0819099fa5cc5166c0eeb |
completed | March 8, 2026, 3:45 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b1eede693c8190a49be9d267bed6fa |
completed | March 11, 2026, 10:38 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69b1ef97b8a88190b5d6c526c32d1b31 |
completed | March 11, 2026, 10:41 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69b1f0df33808190900b0422a8057bfd |
completed | March 11, 2026, 10:46 p.m. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 2:58 p.m.