Triple

T3771970
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Martin David Kruskal E83217 entity
Predicate notableStudent P4838 FINISHED
Object Clifford S. Gardner
Clifford S. Gardner was an American mathematician known for his influential work in soliton theory and nonlinear partial differential equations.
E395324 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: Clifford S. Gardner | Statement: [Martin David Kruskal, notableStudent, Clifford S. Gardner]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Clifford S. Gardner
Context triple: [Martin David Kruskal, notableStudent, Clifford S. Gardner]
  • A. Robert N. Fitch
    Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
  • B. Jerrold R. Zacharias
    Jerrold R. Zacharias was an American physicist best known for his work on radar development during World War II and for pioneering the atomic clock.
  • C. Richard H. Kline
    Richard H. Kline was an American cinematographer known for his work on major Hollywood films from the 1960s through the 1980s, including visually ambitious projects like the 1976 remake of King Kong.
  • D. Richard H. Garrett
    Richard H. Garrett was a Virginia farmer best known for owning the rural property near Port Royal where John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, was captured and killed in 1865.
  • E. Milburn G. Apt
    Milburn G. Apt was a United States Air Force test pilot and the first person to exceed Mach 3, who died in the crash of the Bell X-2 during a record-setting flight in 1956.
  • 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: Clifford S. Gardner
Triple: [Martin David Kruskal, notableStudent, Clifford S. Gardner]
Generated description
Clifford S. Gardner was an American mathematician known for his influential work in soliton theory and nonlinear partial differential equations.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Clifford S. Gardner
Target entity description: Clifford S. Gardner was an American mathematician known for his influential work in soliton theory and nonlinear partial differential equations.
  • A. Robert N. Fitch
    Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
  • B. Jerrold R. Zacharias
    Jerrold R. Zacharias was an American physicist best known for his work on radar development during World War II and for pioneering the atomic clock.
  • C. Richard H. Kline
    Richard H. Kline was an American cinematographer known for his work on major Hollywood films from the 1960s through the 1980s, including visually ambitious projects like the 1976 remake of King Kong.
  • D. Richard H. Garrett
    Richard H. Garrett was a Virginia farmer best known for owning the rural property near Port Royal where John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, was captured and killed in 1865.
  • E. Milburn G. Apt
    Milburn G. Apt was a United States Air Force test pilot and the first person to exceed Mach 3, who died in the crash of the Bell X-2 during a record-setting flight in 1956.
  • 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_69ad8b235e608190b5a2b1d1bfcef50b completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adcc3219b881908a2f82126f9a679d completed March 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b51214d77881909a11857a8b8481f9 completed March 14, 2026, 7:45 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b51318c0348190a665648a19ea8b51 completed March 14, 2026, 7:49 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b5137d9bb0819085be156826bc945a completed March 14, 2026, 7:51 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:36 p.m.