Triple

T3504107
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sheldon Roberts E74034 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory E16246 NE FINISHED

How this triple was built (2 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: Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory | Statement: [Sheldon Roberts, employer, Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory
Context triple: [Sheldon Roberts, employer, Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory]
  • A. Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory chosen
    Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory was a pioneering Silicon Valley research and development company founded by Nobel laureate William Shockley that became the seed for many later semiconductor firms, including those started by the "traitorous eight."
  • B. Fairchild Semiconductor
    Fairchild Semiconductor was a pioneering American semiconductor company that played a central role in the development of Silicon Valley and the modern integrated circuit industry.
  • C. Rockwell Semiconductor Systems
    Rockwell Semiconductor Systems was a division of Rockwell International that designed and manufactured semiconductor components, particularly known for its communications and modem chipsets in the 1990s.
  • D. National Semiconductor
    National Semiconductor was a major American semiconductor company known for its analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits, later acquired by Texas Instruments.
  • E. Signetics
    Signetics was an early integrated circuit and semiconductor manufacturer that became known for pioneering memory and logic chips before being acquired by Philips.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 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_69ad85ce7a9c81909ddc5cf0cb67a6e3 completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adbbf22b1c8190956141d8fb924210 completed March 8, 2026, 6:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b373de0a34819096701e24409a08bb completed March 13, 2026, 2:18 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:18 p.m.