Triple

T4979700
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cypherpunks mailing list E111852 entity
Predicate notableParticipant P6467 FINISHED
Object Eric Hughes
Eric Hughes is a mathematician, programmer, and privacy advocate best known as a co-founder of the cypherpunk movement and author of "A Cypherpunk's Manifesto."
 E485339 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: Eric Hughes | Statement: [Cypherpunks mailing list, notableParticipant, Eric Hughes]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Eric Hughes
Context triple: [Cypherpunks mailing list, notableParticipant, Eric Hughes]
  • A. Patrick Hughes
    Patrick Hughes is an Australian film director best known for helming action movies such as *The Expendables 3* and *The Hitman's Bodyguard*.
  • B. John Burnett
    John Burnett is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and academia.
  • C. John Hadden
    John Hadden is a theater artist and director best known as a co-founder of the Shakespeare & Company theater troupe.
  • D. Sean Harris
    Sean Harris is a British actor known for his intense character roles in film and television, including his portrayal of the android-hating geologist Fifield in the science fiction film "Prometheus."
  • E. David Edward Hughes
    David Edward Hughes was a 19th-century British inventor and physicist best known for pioneering work in telegraphy, the carbon microphone, and early radio wave detection.
  • 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: Eric Hughes
Triple: [Cypherpunks mailing list, notableParticipant, Eric Hughes]
Generated description
Eric Hughes is a mathematician, programmer, and privacy advocate best known as a co-founder of the cypherpunk movement and author of "A Cypherpunk's Manifesto."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Eric Hughes
Target entity description: Eric Hughes is a mathematician, programmer, and privacy advocate best known as a co-founder of the cypherpunk movement and author of "A Cypherpunk's Manifesto."
  • A. Patrick Hughes
    Patrick Hughes is an Australian film director best known for helming action movies such as *The Expendables 3* and *The Hitman's Bodyguard*.
  • B. John Burnett
    John Burnett is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple notable individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and academia.
  • C. John Hadden
    John Hadden is a theater artist and director best known as a co-founder of the Shakespeare & Company theater troupe.
  • D. Sean Harris
    Sean Harris is a British actor known for his intense character roles in film and television, including his portrayal of the android-hating geologist Fifield in the science fiction film "Prometheus."
  • E. David Edward Hughes
    David Edward Hughes was a 19th-century British inventor and physicist best known for pioneering work in telegraphy, the carbon microphone, and early radio wave detection.
  • 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_69bd441adc208190b70a033a0741d01e completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd723418e881908f1e43b1be0a2f17 completed March 20, 2026, 4:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be8a0ac8d48190b9d050e26b67a794 completed March 21, 2026, 12:07 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be8d747c40819098ac5d475d60ab46 completed March 21, 2026, 12:22 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be8df7ab9c8190b1af6e32f0f33b30 completed March 21, 2026, 12:24 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:33 p.m.