Triple

T4661871
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Mendel Medal E102550 entity
Predicate notableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object David Baulcombe
David Baulcombe is a British plant scientist renowned for his pioneering work on RNA silencing and gene regulation in plants.
 E465882 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: David Baulcombe | Statement: [Mendel Medal, notableRecipient, David Baulcombe]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: David Baulcombe
Context triple: [Mendel Medal, notableRecipient, David Baulcombe]
  • A. David Buckley
    David Buckley is a British film and television composer known for scoring numerous Hollywood productions, including action and thriller films.
  • B. David Pegg
    David Pegg was an English footballer who played as a left winger for Manchester United's famed "Busby Babes" before his life was tragically cut short in the Munich air disaster of 1958.
  • C. Martin Boddey
    Martin Boddey was a British character actor known for his frequent supporting roles in mid-20th-century films and television, often portraying authority figures such as policemen and officials.
  • D. Alan Wheatley
    Alan Wheatley was a British actor best known for his stage and screen work, including his portrayal of the Sheriff of Nottingham in the 1950s television series "The Adventures of Robin Hood."
  • E. Paul Groves
    Paul Groves is an American operatic tenor acclaimed for his performances in major international opera houses and concert halls.
  • 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: David Baulcombe
Triple: [Mendel Medal, notableRecipient, David Baulcombe]
Generated description
David Baulcombe is a British plant scientist renowned for his pioneering work on RNA silencing and gene regulation in plants.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: David Baulcombe
Target entity description: David Baulcombe is a British plant scientist renowned for his pioneering work on RNA silencing and gene regulation in plants.
  • A. David Buckley
    David Buckley is a British film and television composer known for scoring numerous Hollywood productions, including action and thriller films.
  • B. David Pegg
    David Pegg was an English footballer who played as a left winger for Manchester United's famed "Busby Babes" before his life was tragically cut short in the Munich air disaster of 1958.
  • C. Martin Boddey
    Martin Boddey was a British character actor known for his frequent supporting roles in mid-20th-century films and television, often portraying authority figures such as policemen and officials.
  • D. Alan Wheatley
    Alan Wheatley was a British actor best known for his stage and screen work, including his portrayal of the Sheriff of Nottingham in the 1950s television series "The Adventures of Robin Hood."
  • E. Paul Groves
    Paul Groves is an American operatic tenor acclaimed for his performances in major international opera houses and concert halls.
  • 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_69be39bb60d88190b44e468904c85af9 completed March 21, 2026, 6:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be3b7d0e3c8190a4c4fabee0299908 completed March 21, 2026, 6:32 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be3c059b1c819084fa4c30e576fd2e completed March 21, 2026, 6:34 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:15 p.m.