Triple

T3717882
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Alan Hodgkin E81573 entity
Predicate coAuthor P398 FINISHED
Object Bernard Katz
Bernard Katz was a German-British biophysicist and Nobel Prize–winning neuroscientist renowned for his pioneering work on the mechanisms of synaptic transmission at the nerve-muscle junction.
E381980 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: Bernard Katz | Statement: [Alan Hodgkin, coAuthor, Bernard Katz]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bernard Katz
Context triple: [Alan Hodgkin, coAuthor, Bernard Katz]
  • A. Roger Guillemin
    Roger Guillemin is a French-born American neuroscientist and endocrinologist who shared the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his pioneering work on hypothalamic hormones.
  • B. August Krogh
    August Krogh was a Danish physiologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on capillary blood flow and the regulation of circulation and respiration.
  • C. Thomas Südhof
    Thomas Südhof is a German-American neuroscientist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the molecular mechanisms of synaptic transmission.
  • D. Paul Greengard
    Paul Greengard was an American neuroscientist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for his pioneering research on how neurons communicate via chemical signals in the brain.
  • E. Niels K. Jerne
    Niels K. Jerne was a Danish immunologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering theoretical work on the immune system, including the network theory of immune regulation.
  • 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: Bernard Katz
Triple: [Alan Hodgkin, coAuthor, Bernard Katz]
Generated description
Bernard Katz was a German-British biophysicist and Nobel Prize–winning neuroscientist renowned for his pioneering work on the mechanisms of synaptic transmission at the nerve-muscle junction.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bernard Katz
Target entity description: Bernard Katz was a German-British biophysicist and Nobel Prize–winning neuroscientist renowned for his pioneering work on the mechanisms of synaptic transmission at the nerve-muscle junction.
  • A. Roger Guillemin
    Roger Guillemin is a French-born American neuroscientist and endocrinologist who shared the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his pioneering work on hypothalamic hormones.
  • B. August Krogh
    August Krogh was a Danish physiologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on capillary blood flow and the regulation of circulation and respiration.
  • C. Thomas Südhof
    Thomas Südhof is a German-American neuroscientist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the molecular mechanisms of synaptic transmission.
  • D. Paul Greengard
    Paul Greengard was an American neuroscientist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for his pioneering research on how neurons communicate via chemical signals in the brain.
  • E. Niels K. Jerne
    Niels K. Jerne was a Danish immunologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering theoretical work on the immune system, including the network theory of immune regulation.
  • 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_69ad8b1a81588190b3f27a5483bb610e completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adca984844819087a2f6b20d2f19e7 completed March 8, 2026, 7:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4ce1260948190b4707337e9427c2c completed March 14, 2026, 2:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4cf799ae88190bbf821f4c4500031 completed March 14, 2026, 3:01 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4d0057fe8819092a40732324f88c9 completed March 14, 2026, 3:03 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:33 p.m.