Triple

T5521094
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Hideki Shirakawa E144808 entity
Predicate sharedNobelPrizeWith P1859 FINISHED
Object Alan J. Heeger
Alan J. Heeger is an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on conductive polymers and organic electronics.
E531688 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: Alan J. Heeger | Statement: [Hideki Shirakawa, sharedNobelPrizeWith, Alan J. Heeger]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alan J. Heeger
Context triple: [Hideki Shirakawa, sharedNobelPrizeWith, Alan J. Heeger]
  • A. John B. Goodenough
    John B. Goodenough was an American materials scientist and physicist renowned for his pioneering work on lithium-ion rechargeable batteries, which revolutionized portable electronics and energy storage.
  • B. M. Stanley Whittingham
    M. Stanley Whittingham is a British-American chemist renowned as a pioneer of lithium-ion battery technology, work that earned him a share of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
  • C. Douglas D. Osheroff
    Douglas D. Osheroff is an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on superfluidity in helium-3 and his contributions to major scientific investigations.
  • D. Michael Grätzel
    Michael Grätzel is a Swiss chemist best known for inventing dye-sensitized solar cells, a breakthrough in low-cost, efficient solar energy technology.
  • E. Ronald Breslow
    Ronald Breslow was a prominent American chemist renowned for his pioneering work in biomimetic chemistry and for major contributions to organic reaction mechanisms and vitamin B₁ chemistry.
  • 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: Alan J. Heeger
Triple: [Hideki Shirakawa, sharedNobelPrizeWith, Alan J. Heeger]
Generated description
Alan J. Heeger is an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on conductive polymers and organic electronics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Alan J. Heeger
Target entity description: Alan J. Heeger is an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on conductive polymers and organic electronics.
  • A. John B. Goodenough
    John B. Goodenough was an American materials scientist and physicist renowned for his pioneering work on lithium-ion rechargeable batteries, which revolutionized portable electronics and energy storage.
  • B. M. Stanley Whittingham
    M. Stanley Whittingham is a British-American chemist renowned as a pioneer of lithium-ion battery technology, work that earned him a share of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
  • C. Douglas D. Osheroff
    Douglas D. Osheroff is an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on superfluidity in helium-3 and his contributions to major scientific investigations.
  • D. Michael Grätzel
    Michael Grätzel is a Swiss chemist best known for inventing dye-sensitized solar cells, a breakthrough in low-cost, efficient solar energy technology.
  • E. Ronald Breslow
    Ronald Breslow was a prominent American chemist renowned for his pioneering work in biomimetic chemistry and for major contributions to organic reaction mechanisms and vitamin B₁ chemistry.
  • 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_69c008f873a481909b4d9f7e2db3c37d completed March 22, 2026, 3:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c01f7227a8819080c9f074afe0eaac completed March 22, 2026, 4:57 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c027ee724c819086b92ea127961e09 completed March 22, 2026, 5:33 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c03c0ab1d8819094aeaac0a5b57bc8 completed March 22, 2026, 6:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c03cd550748190ab9718c510d2f0ca completed March 22, 2026, 7:02 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:33 p.m.