Triple

T4995830
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Nevill Francis Mott E112242 entity
Predicate coAuthor P398 FINISHED
Object Ronald N. Bracewell
Ronald N. Bracewell was an Australian-born radio astronomer and electrical engineer best known for his pioneering work in radio interferometry, image reconstruction, and the conceptual design of the "Bracewell probe" for interstellar communication.
E487206 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: Ronald N. Bracewell | Statement: [Nevill Francis Mott, coAuthor, Ronald N. Bracewell]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ronald N. Bracewell
Context triple: [Nevill Francis Mott, coAuthor, Ronald N. Bracewell]
  • A. Ben H. Kline
    Ben H. Kline was an American film professional best known for his work as an assistant director and cinematographer during Hollywood’s early studio era.
  • B. 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.
  • C. John R. Pierce
    John R. Pierce was an American engineer and scientist best known for his pioneering work in communications technology, including satellite and microwave systems, and for coining the term "transistor."
  • D. Edward M. Wright
    Edward M. Wright was a British mathematician best known as the co-author, with G. H. Hardy, of the classic textbook "An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers."
  • E. Thomas Kailath
    Thomas Kailath is an Indian-American electrical engineer and Stanford professor renowned for his influential contributions to information theory, control, and signal processing.
  • 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: Ronald N. Bracewell
Triple: [Nevill Francis Mott, coAuthor, Ronald N. Bracewell]
Generated description
Ronald N. Bracewell was an Australian-born radio astronomer and electrical engineer best known for his pioneering work in radio interferometry, image reconstruction, and the conceptual design of the "Bracewell probe" for interstellar communication.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ronald N. Bracewell
Target entity description: Ronald N. Bracewell was an Australian-born radio astronomer and electrical engineer best known for his pioneering work in radio interferometry, image reconstruction, and the conceptual design of the "Bracewell probe" for interstellar communication.
  • A. Ben H. Kline
    Ben H. Kline was an American film professional best known for his work as an assistant director and cinematographer during Hollywood’s early studio era.
  • B. 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.
  • C. John R. Pierce
    John R. Pierce was an American engineer and scientist best known for his pioneering work in communications technology, including satellite and microwave systems, and for coining the term "transistor."
  • D. Edward M. Wright
    Edward M. Wright was a British mathematician best known as the co-author, with G. H. Hardy, of the classic textbook "An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers."
  • E. Thomas Kailath
    Thomas Kailath is an Indian-American electrical engineer and Stanford professor renowned for his influential contributions to information theory, control, and signal processing.
  • 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_69bd4432b32c81909f3b3c6bd10f0653 completed March 20, 2026, 12:57 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd72a0122c8190bb2fc655f3bc11b0 completed March 20, 2026, 4:15 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be92557c508190a8c27b974906999f completed March 21, 2026, 12:43 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be945736d0819097e26ad90d6f9813 completed March 21, 2026, 12:51 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be94d3578c81909e8139f253e26d69 completed March 21, 2026, 12:53 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:34 p.m.