Triple

T5807925
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bruce Stillman E128790 entity
Predicate notableStudent P4838 FINISHED
Object Hideo Nishitani
Hideo Nishitani is a scientist known for being a distinguished mentee of molecular biologist Bruce Stillman.
E849223 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: Hideo Nishitani | Statement: [Bruce Stillman, notableStudent, Hideo Nishitani]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hideo Nishitani
Context triple: [Bruce Stillman, notableStudent, Hideo Nishitani]
  • A. Shigetada Nakanishi
    Shigetada Nakanishi is a Japanese neuroscientist renowned for his pioneering work on neurotransmitter receptors and synaptic transmission.
  • B. Hirokazu Matsuno
    Hirokazu Matsuno is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party who has served in senior government roles, including as a key spokesperson and coordinator for the national cabinet.
  • C. Toshio Fukuda
    Toshio Fukuda is a Japanese media executive best known for his leadership role at Nippon Television Network, one of Japan’s major commercial broadcasters.
  • D. Kazuhiko Nishijima
    Kazuhiko Nishijima was a Japanese theoretical physicist best known for co-formulating the Gell-Mann–Nishijima formula, which helped classify subatomic particles and advance the quark model in particle physics.
  • E. Akinori Otsuka
    Akinori Otsuka is a former Japanese professional baseball relief pitcher who starred in Nippon Professional Baseball and later became a successful closer in Major League Baseball.
  • 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: Hideo Nishitani
Triple: [Bruce Stillman, notableStudent, Hideo Nishitani]
Generated description
Hideo Nishitani is a scientist known for being a distinguished mentee of molecular biologist Bruce Stillman.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Hideo Nishitani
Target entity description: Hideo Nishitani is a scientist known for being a distinguished mentee of molecular biologist Bruce Stillman.
  • A. Shigetada Nakanishi
    Shigetada Nakanishi is a Japanese neuroscientist renowned for his pioneering work on neurotransmitter receptors and synaptic transmission.
  • B. Hirokazu Matsuno
    Hirokazu Matsuno is a Japanese politician of the Liberal Democratic Party who has served in senior government roles, including as a key spokesperson and coordinator for the national cabinet.
  • C. Toshio Fukuda
    Toshio Fukuda is a Japanese media executive best known for his leadership role at Nippon Television Network, one of Japan’s major commercial broadcasters.
  • D. Kazuhiko Nishijima
    Kazuhiko Nishijima was a Japanese theoretical physicist best known for co-formulating the Gell-Mann–Nishijima formula, which helped classify subatomic particles and advance the quark model in particle physics.
  • E. Akinori Otsuka
    Akinori Otsuka is a former Japanese professional baseball relief pitcher who starred in Nippon Professional Baseball and later became a successful closer in Major League Baseball.
  • 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_69c0084788848190bcf71f6bc5d71597 completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c02b17417081908779741b9bfbb720 completed March 22, 2026, 5:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d5f2bfdc5881909689a8b24d605458 completed April 8, 2026, 6:16 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d5f42e2d44819089d524c5757ee141 completed April 8, 2026, 6:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d5f47d850c8190afebd2c769364e0f completed April 8, 2026, 6:23 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:52 p.m.