Triple

T4661866
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mendel Medal E102550 entity
Predicate notableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Sir Alec Jeffreys
Sir Alec Jeffreys is a British geneticist best known for inventing DNA fingerprinting, a breakthrough technique that revolutionized forensic science and paternity testing.
E458545 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: Sir Alec Jeffreys | Statement: [Mendel Medal, notableRecipient, Sir Alec Jeffreys]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Alec Jeffreys
Context triple: [Mendel Medal, notableRecipient, Sir Alec Jeffreys]
  • A. William Cary Sanger
    William Cary Sanger was an American lawyer and politician who served in the early 20th century U.S. War Department and was involved in military and governmental affairs.
  • B. John Sulston
    John Sulston was a British biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the genetics and cell lineage of the nematode C. elegans and for his leadership in the Human Genome Project.
  • C. Sir Tim Hunt
    Sir Tim Hunt is a British biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate recognized for his discovery of key regulators of the cell cycle.
  • D. John Meurig Thomas
    John Meurig Thomas was a renowned Welsh chemist and materials scientist known for his pioneering work in heterogeneous catalysis and solid-state chemistry.
  • E. Stephen Hodgkin
    Stephen Hodgkin is a notable individual who shares the Hodgkin surname, recognized enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the name.
  • 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: Sir Alec Jeffreys
Triple: [Mendel Medal, notableRecipient, Sir Alec Jeffreys]
Generated description
Sir Alec Jeffreys is a British geneticist best known for inventing DNA fingerprinting, a breakthrough technique that revolutionized forensic science and paternity testing.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Alec Jeffreys
Target entity description: Sir Alec Jeffreys is a British geneticist best known for inventing DNA fingerprinting, a breakthrough technique that revolutionized forensic science and paternity testing.
  • A. William Cary Sanger
    William Cary Sanger was an American lawyer and politician who served in the early 20th century U.S. War Department and was involved in military and governmental affairs.
  • B. John Sulston
    John Sulston was a British biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the genetics and cell lineage of the nematode C. elegans and for his leadership in the Human Genome Project.
  • C. Sir Tim Hunt
    Sir Tim Hunt is a British biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate recognized for his discovery of key regulators of the cell cycle.
  • D. John Meurig Thomas
    John Meurig Thomas was a renowned Welsh chemist and materials scientist known for his pioneering work in heterogeneous catalysis and solid-state chemistry.
  • E. Stephen Hodgkin
    Stephen Hodgkin is a notable individual who shares the Hodgkin surname, recognized enough to be specifically cited as a bearer of the name.
  • 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_69bd43d823288190952279faa0d1d066 completed March 20, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd632b7fb88190821f213620719d6b completed March 20, 2026, 3:09 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69bdfafcd3908190aabf7975017ce337 completed March 21, 2026, 1:57 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bdfc7b84108190af39c7780f702745 completed March 21, 2026, 2:03 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bdfd3856b48190a44f49da5fde38f6 completed March 21, 2026, 2:06 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:15 p.m.