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]
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.