Triple

T5642861
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John B. Watson E124309 entity
Predicate notableStudent P4838 FINISHED
Object Karl Lashley
Karl Lashley was an influential American psychologist and neuroscientist known for his pioneering research on brain function, learning, and memory, particularly through lesion studies in animals.
E537236 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: Karl Lashley | Statement: [John B. Watson, notableStudent, Karl Lashley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Karl Lashley
Context triple: [John B. Watson, notableStudent, Karl Lashley]
  • A. Edward C. Tolman
    Edward C. Tolman was an American psychologist known for his pioneering work in cognitive behaviorism, especially his concept of cognitive maps and purposive behavior in animals.
  • B. Donald Hebb
    Donald Hebb was a Canadian psychologist and neuroscientist best known for pioneering theories of synaptic plasticity and learning, encapsulated in the influential concept now known as Hebbian learning.
  • C. Edgar Adrian
    Edgar Adrian was a British neurophysiologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the electrical activity of neurons and the coding of nerve impulses.
  • D. John Eccles
    John Eccles was an Australian neurophysiologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the physiology of synapses and neural communication.
  • E. Jerome Y. Lettvin
    Jerome Y. Lettvin was an influential American neuroscientist and MIT professor best known for his pioneering work on how the nervous system processes visual information, including the landmark paper “What the frog’s eye tells the frog’s brain.”
  • 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: Karl Lashley
Triple: [John B. Watson, notableStudent, Karl Lashley]
Generated description
Karl Lashley was an influential American psychologist and neuroscientist known for his pioneering research on brain function, learning, and memory, particularly through lesion studies in animals.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Karl Lashley
Target entity description: Karl Lashley was an influential American psychologist and neuroscientist known for his pioneering research on brain function, learning, and memory, particularly through lesion studies in animals.
  • A. Edward C. Tolman
    Edward C. Tolman was an American psychologist known for his pioneering work in cognitive behaviorism, especially his concept of cognitive maps and purposive behavior in animals.
  • B. Donald Hebb
    Donald Hebb was a Canadian psychologist and neuroscientist best known for pioneering theories of synaptic plasticity and learning, encapsulated in the influential concept now known as Hebbian learning.
  • C. Edgar Adrian
    Edgar Adrian was a British neurophysiologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the electrical activity of neurons and the coding of nerve impulses.
  • D. John Eccles
    John Eccles was an Australian neurophysiologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the physiology of synapses and neural communication.
  • E. Jerome Y. Lettvin
    Jerome Y. Lettvin was an influential American neuroscientist and MIT professor best known for his pioneering work on how the nervous system processes visual information, including the landmark paper “What the frog’s eye tells the frog’s brain.”
  • 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_69c00824643c81909ffdb888a2d35189 completed March 22, 2026, 3:17 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c022a6a22881908d16f4df564ed2a2 completed March 22, 2026, 5:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c04d7c98008190b79528596eca4208 completed March 22, 2026, 8:13 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c04edbf1f081908d74d0ac29601a35 completed March 22, 2026, 8:19 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c04f7e64c88190bbced2f2460c1913 completed March 22, 2026, 8:22 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:41 p.m.