Triple

T5660426
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Brenda Milner E124723 entity
Predicate studied P778 FINISHED
Object patient H.M.
Patient H.M. (Henry Molaison) was a famous neurological case study whose profound memory loss after brain surgery provided crucial insights into how human memory is organized in the brain.
E537886 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: patient H.M. | Statement: [Brenda Milner, studied, patient H.M.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: patient H.M.
Context triple: [Brenda Milner, studied, patient H.M.]
  • A. Brenda Milner
    Brenda Milner is a pioneering neuropsychologist whose groundbreaking research on memory and the brain, particularly through studies of patient H.M., helped establish the field of cognitive neuroscience.
  • B. Phineas Gage
    Phineas Gage was a 19th-century American railroad worker who survived a severe brain injury from an iron tamping rod, becoming a famous case study in neuroscience and the relationship between brain function and personality.
  • C. Fred Gage
    Fred Gage is an American neuroscientist renowned for his pioneering work demonstrating that the adult human brain can generate new neurons, fundamentally reshaping understanding of brain plasticity.
  • D. Hermann Ebbinghaus
    Hermann Ebbinghaus was a pioneering German psychologist best known for his experimental studies of memory and the formulation of the forgetting curve and spacing effect.
  • E. Jean-Dominique Bauby
    Jean-Dominique Bauby was a French journalist and editor of Elle who, after being left almost completely paralyzed by locked-in syndrome, authored the memoir "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" by blinking his left eye.
  • 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: patient H.M.
Triple: [Brenda Milner, studied, patient H.M.]
Generated description
Patient H.M. (Henry Molaison) was a famous neurological case study whose profound memory loss after brain surgery provided crucial insights into how human memory is organized in the brain.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: patient H.M.
Target entity description: Patient H.M. (Henry Molaison) was a famous neurological case study whose profound memory loss after brain surgery provided crucial insights into how human memory is organized in the brain.
  • A. Brenda Milner
    Brenda Milner is a pioneering neuropsychologist whose groundbreaking research on memory and the brain, particularly through studies of patient H.M., helped establish the field of cognitive neuroscience.
  • B. Phineas Gage
    Phineas Gage was a 19th-century American railroad worker who survived a severe brain injury from an iron tamping rod, becoming a famous case study in neuroscience and the relationship between brain function and personality.
  • C. Fred Gage
    Fred Gage is an American neuroscientist renowned for his pioneering work demonstrating that the adult human brain can generate new neurons, fundamentally reshaping understanding of brain plasticity.
  • D. Hermann Ebbinghaus
    Hermann Ebbinghaus was a pioneering German psychologist best known for his experimental studies of memory and the formulation of the forgetting curve and spacing effect.
  • E. Jean-Dominique Bauby
    Jean-Dominique Bauby was a French journalist and editor of Elle who, after being left almost completely paralyzed by locked-in syndrome, authored the memoir "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly" by blinking his left eye.
  • 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_69c0082774a481909d7e63fb2aad56ac completed March 22, 2026, 3:17 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c0232077448190afdef460671eaf4f completed March 22, 2026, 5:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c04da6fa808190a3c500ee664bb150 completed March 22, 2026, 8:14 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c04edf30448190a60eda49b8b031a0 completed March 22, 2026, 8:19 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c04fb62690819083327781cb857ccc completed March 22, 2026, 8:23 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:42 p.m.