Triple

T4765340
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Byzantine Generals Problem E105795 entity
Predicate hasAuthor P4244 FINISHED
Object Robert Shostak
Robert Shostak is a computer scientist known for his foundational work in distributed computing and fault-tolerant consensus, including co-authoring the seminal paper on the Byzantine Generals Problem.
E467811 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: Robert Shostak | Statement: [Byzantine Generals Problem, hasAuthor, Robert Shostak]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Shostak
Context triple: [Byzantine Generals Problem, hasAuthor, Robert Shostak]
  • A. Allan H. Meltzer
    Allan H. Meltzer was an influential American economist known for his extensive work on monetary policy, central banking, and his authoritative history of the Federal Reserve.
  • B. Lev Okun
    Lev Okun was a prominent Soviet theoretical physicist known for his influential work in particle physics and contributions to the understanding of quarks, weak interactions, and the foundations of quantum field theory.
  • C. Michael D. Bordo
    Michael D. Bordo is an economic historian known for his influential research on monetary history and policy, often focusing on financial crises and the evolution of central banking.
  • D. Max Abramovitz
    Max Abramovitz was a prominent American architect known for his modernist designs of major cultural and institutional buildings, including notable performance arts centers and university facilities.
  • E. Karl E. Case
    Karl E. Case was an American economist best known for co-developing the widely used Case-Shiller Home Price Index that tracks U.S. residential real estate prices.
  • 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: Robert Shostak
Triple: [Byzantine Generals Problem, hasAuthor, Robert Shostak]
Generated description
Robert Shostak is a computer scientist known for his foundational work in distributed computing and fault-tolerant consensus, including co-authoring the seminal paper on the Byzantine Generals Problem.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Shostak
Target entity description: Robert Shostak is a computer scientist known for his foundational work in distributed computing and fault-tolerant consensus, including co-authoring the seminal paper on the Byzantine Generals Problem.
  • A. Allan H. Meltzer
    Allan H. Meltzer was an influential American economist known for his extensive work on monetary policy, central banking, and his authoritative history of the Federal Reserve.
  • B. Lev Okun
    Lev Okun was a prominent Soviet theoretical physicist known for his influential work in particle physics and contributions to the understanding of quarks, weak interactions, and the foundations of quantum field theory.
  • C. Michael D. Bordo
    Michael D. Bordo is an economic historian known for his influential research on monetary history and policy, often focusing on financial crises and the evolution of central banking.
  • D. Max Abramovitz
    Max Abramovitz was a prominent American architect known for his modernist designs of major cultural and institutional buildings, including notable performance arts centers and university facilities.
  • E. Karl E. Case
    Karl E. Case was an American economist best known for co-developing the widely used Case-Shiller Home Price Index that tracks U.S. residential real estate prices.
  • 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_69bd43f226fc8190b867cc249c2a9042 completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd65327af48190881c25763232c368 completed March 20, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be3a87741081909380c51ba4efed92 completed March 21, 2026, 6:28 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be3d444b888190b2df7433502604ff completed March 21, 2026, 6:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be3dd31c648190bfdac15fb85cfec9 completed March 21, 2026, 6:42 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:21 p.m.