Triple
T5945334
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | John Backus |
E132264
|
entity |
| Predicate | awardReceived |
P11
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
W. W. McDowell Award
The W. W. McDowell Award is a prestigious computer science and engineering honor recognizing outstanding contributions to the field, once awarded to programming language pioneer John Backus.
|
E557583
|
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: W. W. McDowell Award | Statement: [John Backus, awardReceived, W. W. McDowell Award]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: W. W. McDowell Award Context triple: [John Backus, awardReceived, W. W. McDowell Award]
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A.
J.C. Stevens Award
The J.C. Stevens Award is a professional honor in the field of civil engineering and water resources, recognizing significant contributions to hydraulic engineering and related disciplines.
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B.
Kenneth N. Trueblood Award
The Kenneth N. Trueblood Award is a chemistry honor recognizing outstanding achievements in computational or theoretical chemistry, particularly in the development and application of computational methods.
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C.
William H. Walker Award
The William H. Walker Award is a prestigious American Institute of Chemical Engineers honor recognizing outstanding contributions to the chemical engineering literature.
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D.
Harry H. Goode Memorial Award
The Harry H. Goode Memorial Award is a prestigious IEEE Computer Society honor recognizing outstanding contributions to the field of information processing and computer science.
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E.
Donaldson Award
The Donaldson Award was an early American theater honor recognizing outstanding achievements in Broadway productions prior to the establishment of the Tony Awards.
- 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: W. W. McDowell Award Triple: [John Backus, awardReceived, W. W. McDowell Award]
Generated description
The W. W. McDowell Award is a prestigious computer science and engineering honor recognizing outstanding contributions to the field, once awarded to programming language pioneer John Backus.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: W. W. McDowell Award Target entity description: The W. W. McDowell Award is a prestigious computer science and engineering honor recognizing outstanding contributions to the field, once awarded to programming language pioneer John Backus.
-
A.
J.C. Stevens Award
The J.C. Stevens Award is a professional honor in the field of civil engineering and water resources, recognizing significant contributions to hydraulic engineering and related disciplines.
-
B.
Kenneth N. Trueblood Award
The Kenneth N. Trueblood Award is a chemistry honor recognizing outstanding achievements in computational or theoretical chemistry, particularly in the development and application of computational methods.
-
C.
William H. Walker Award
The William H. Walker Award is a prestigious American Institute of Chemical Engineers honor recognizing outstanding contributions to the chemical engineering literature.
-
D.
Harry H. Goode Memorial Award
The Harry H. Goode Memorial Award is a prestigious IEEE Computer Society honor recognizing outstanding contributions to the field of information processing and computer science.
-
E.
Donaldson Award
The Donaldson Award was an early American theater honor recognizing outstanding achievements in Broadway productions prior to the establishment of the Tony Awards.
- 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_69c00869d3308190af89b2453e0f7546 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 3:19 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c0393a10448190b0960f4487e87448 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 6:47 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c0c084fce481909c306d6eeb99066d |
completed | March 23, 2026, 4:24 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69c0c19665b08190ab3c66b7c6c33f61 |
completed | March 23, 2026, 4:29 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69c0c4576824819080ced71df8fdda6c |
completed | March 23, 2026, 4:40 a.m. |
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:01 p.m.