Triple

T6056682
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Polykarp Kusch E134929 entity
Predicate sharedNobelPrizeWith P1859 FINISHED
Object Willis Eugene Lamb
Willis Eugene Lamb was an American physicist renowned for his precise measurements of the hydrogen spectrum (the Lamb shift), which profoundly influenced quantum electrodynamics and earned him a share of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Physics.
E564170 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: Willis Eugene Lamb | Statement: [Polykarp Kusch, sharedNobelPrizeWith, Willis Eugene Lamb]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Willis Eugene Lamb
Context triple: [Polykarp Kusch, sharedNobelPrizeWith, Willis Eugene Lamb]
  • A. Norman Ramsey
    Norman Ramsey was an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for developing the separated oscillatory field method, which enabled highly precise atomic clocks and advanced nuclear magnetic resonance techniques.
  • B. I. I. Rabi
    I. I. Rabi was a Nobel Prize–winning American physicist renowned for his pioneering work in nuclear magnetic resonance and contributions to quantum physics.
  • C. Robert H. Dicke
    Robert H. Dicke was an influential American physicist known for his pioneering work in gravitation, cosmology, and microwave physics, including contributions that helped establish the Big Bang theory.
  • D. Murray Feshbach
    Murray Feshbach was an American demographer and scholar known for his pioneering research on Soviet and Russian population, public health, and environmental issues.
  • E. William A. Bardeen
    William A. Bardeen is an American theoretical physicist known for his influential work in quantum field theory and particle physics, particularly in the study of anomalies.
  • 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: Willis Eugene Lamb
Triple: [Polykarp Kusch, sharedNobelPrizeWith, Willis Eugene Lamb]
Generated description
Willis Eugene Lamb was an American physicist renowned for his precise measurements of the hydrogen spectrum (the Lamb shift), which profoundly influenced quantum electrodynamics and earned him a share of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Physics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Willis Eugene Lamb
Target entity description: Willis Eugene Lamb was an American physicist renowned for his precise measurements of the hydrogen spectrum (the Lamb shift), which profoundly influenced quantum electrodynamics and earned him a share of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Physics.
  • A. Norman Ramsey
    Norman Ramsey was an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for developing the separated oscillatory field method, which enabled highly precise atomic clocks and advanced nuclear magnetic resonance techniques.
  • B. I. I. Rabi
    I. I. Rabi was a Nobel Prize–winning American physicist renowned for his pioneering work in nuclear magnetic resonance and contributions to quantum physics.
  • C. Robert H. Dicke
    Robert H. Dicke was an influential American physicist known for his pioneering work in gravitation, cosmology, and microwave physics, including contributions that helped establish the Big Bang theory.
  • D. Murray Feshbach
    Murray Feshbach was an American demographer and scholar known for his pioneering research on Soviet and Russian population, public health, and environmental issues.
  • E. William A. Bardeen
    William A. Bardeen is an American theoretical physicist known for his influential work in quantum field theory and particle physics, particularly in the study of anomalies.
  • 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_69c00877b6d4819096b0e163728b73a3 completed March 22, 2026, 3:19 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c0570bf01c8190a8b2c25b7805d403 completed March 22, 2026, 8:54 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c113b06d188190839cfc48a2461d65 completed March 23, 2026, 10:19 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c114dcc99481909163f0f40f1a6358 completed March 23, 2026, 10:24 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c115552c188190b500d96e86410180 completed March 23, 2026, 10:26 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:09 p.m.