Triple

T5878374
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Carl Djerassi E130681 entity
Predicate employer P7 FINISHED
Object Syntex
Syntex was a pioneering pharmaceutical company best known for its role in developing the first oral contraceptive pill and advancing steroid chemistry.
E553341 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: Syntex | Statement: [Carl Djerassi, employer, Syntex]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Syntex
Context triple: [Carl Djerassi, employer, Syntex]
  • A. Smith, Kline & French
    Smith, Kline & French was a major 20th-century pharmaceutical company known for developing and marketing important prescription drugs before becoming part of GlaxoSmithKline.
  • B. Upjohn Company
    Upjohn Company was a prominent American pharmaceutical manufacturer founded in the 19th century, known for its innovations in drug formulation and its long-standing presence in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
  • C. SmithKline Beckman
    SmithKline Beckman was a major American pharmaceutical and diagnostics company formed by the merger of SmithKline and Beckman Instruments, later becoming part of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).
  • D. Schering
    Schering is a German surname most notably associated with Ernst Schering, a 19th-century pharmacist and founder of the pharmaceutical company Schering AG.
  • E. Hoechst
    Hoechst was a major German chemical and pharmaceutical company that later became part of the conglomerate IG Farben.
  • 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: Syntex
Triple: [Carl Djerassi, employer, Syntex]
Generated description
Syntex was a pioneering pharmaceutical company best known for its role in developing the first oral contraceptive pill and advancing steroid chemistry.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Syntex
Target entity description: Syntex was a pioneering pharmaceutical company best known for its role in developing the first oral contraceptive pill and advancing steroid chemistry.
  • A. Smith, Kline & French
    Smith, Kline & French was a major 20th-century pharmaceutical company known for developing and marketing important prescription drugs before becoming part of GlaxoSmithKline.
  • B. Upjohn Company
    Upjohn Company was a prominent American pharmaceutical manufacturer founded in the 19th century, known for its innovations in drug formulation and its long-standing presence in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
  • C. SmithKline Beckman
    SmithKline Beckman was a major American pharmaceutical and diagnostics company formed by the merger of SmithKline and Beckman Instruments, later becoming part of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).
  • D. Schering
    Schering is a German surname most notably associated with Ernst Schering, a 19th-century pharmacist and founder of the pharmaceutical company Schering AG.
  • E. Hoechst
    Hoechst was a major German chemical and pharmaceutical company that later became part of the conglomerate IG Farben.
  • 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_69c0085523688190bfd487479ce819e6 completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c036327efc8190858e9364cd5d317b completed March 22, 2026, 6:34 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c0b12861c081909f95f1ef6a1f457c completed March 23, 2026, 3:19 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c0b299fe78819089a2ca8a1ae44329 completed March 23, 2026, 3:25 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c0b2ea7e60819099417b5acb21f8d0 completed March 23, 2026, 3:26 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:57 p.m.