Triple

T6005950
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Neurospora crassa E133709 entity
Predicate usedBy P260 FINISHED
Object Edward Tatum
Edward Tatum was an American geneticist and Nobel laureate whose work helped establish the one gene–one enzyme hypothesis and laid foundations for modern molecular genetics.
 E564281 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: Edward Tatum | Statement: [Neurospora crassa, usedBy, Edward Tatum]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Edward Tatum
Context triple: [Neurospora crassa, usedBy, Edward Tatum]
  • A. George W. Beadle
    George W. Beadle was an American geneticist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on the "one gene–one enzyme" hypothesis, which helped establish the field of molecular genetics.
  • B. Fritz Lipmann
    Fritz Lipmann was a German-American biochemist and Nobel laureate best known for discovering coenzyme A and elucidating its central role in cellular metabolism.
  • C. Arthur Harden
    Arthur Harden was a British biochemist best known for his pioneering research on the chemistry of fermentation and enzymes, for which he shared the 1929 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
  • D. Alexander R. Todd
    Alexander R. Todd was a Scottish biochemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the chemistry of nucleotides and nucleic acids.
  • E. Conrad Elvehjem
    Conrad Elvehjem was an American biochemist best known for identifying niacin as the pellagra-preventing vitamin and for his contributions to nutritional science.
  • 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: Edward Tatum
Triple: [Neurospora crassa, usedBy, Edward Tatum]
Generated description
Edward Tatum was an American geneticist and Nobel laureate whose work helped establish the one gene–one enzyme hypothesis and laid foundations for modern molecular genetics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Edward Tatum
Target entity description: Edward Tatum was an American geneticist and Nobel laureate whose work helped establish the one gene–one enzyme hypothesis and laid foundations for modern molecular genetics.
  • A. George W. Beadle
    George W. Beadle was an American geneticist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on the "one gene–one enzyme" hypothesis, which helped establish the field of molecular genetics.
  • B. Fritz Lipmann
    Fritz Lipmann was a German-American biochemist and Nobel laureate best known for discovering coenzyme A and elucidating its central role in cellular metabolism.
  • C. Arthur Harden
    Arthur Harden was a British biochemist best known for his pioneering research on the chemistry of fermentation and enzymes, for which he shared the 1929 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
  • D. Alexander R. Todd
    Alexander R. Todd was a Scottish biochemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the chemistry of nucleotides and nucleic acids.
  • E. Conrad Elvehjem
    Conrad Elvehjem was an American biochemist best known for identifying niacin as the pellagra-preventing vitamin and for his contributions to nutritional science.
  • 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_69c00872444c8190bfaf1739dcec765c completed March 22, 2026, 3:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c04f128354819088971ee398cbda77 completed March 22, 2026, 8:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c11365741c819097a43a49dd2428c1 completed March 23, 2026, 10:18 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c1153b6ce8819090a13d349ccd2d6c completed March 23, 2026, 10:26 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c115acfe748190b91c88df81c2e1c2 completed March 23, 2026, 10:27 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:06 p.m.