Triple
T6151256
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Jack S. Kilby |
E137205
|
entity |
| Predicate | sharedNobelPrizeWith |
P1859
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Zhores I. Alferov |
E99118
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Zhores I. Alferov | Statement: [Jack S. Kilby, sharedNobelPrizeWith, Zhores I. Alferov]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Zhores I. Alferov Context triple: [Jack S. Kilby, sharedNobelPrizeWith, Zhores I. Alferov]
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A.
Zhores Alferov
chosen
Zhores Alferov was a Soviet and Russian physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on semiconductor heterostructures, which underpins modern electronics and optoelectronics.
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B.
John Giaever
John Giaever is the son of Norwegian-American physicist and Nobel laureate Ivar Giaever.
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C.
Isamu Akasaki
Isamu Akasaki was a Japanese physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for pioneering the development of efficient blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs), which revolutionized lighting and display technologies.
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D.
Shuji Nakamura
Shuji Nakamura is a Japanese-American engineer and physicist best known for inventing the efficient blue LED, a breakthrough that enabled modern white LED lighting and earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics.
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E.
Leo Esaki
Leo Esaki is a Japanese physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on quantum tunneling and the invention of the Esaki (tunnel) diode.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69c008a45d008190832a9e19f5d63406 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c05cfcb5cc8190b998e92211810442 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 9:19 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c1360d84e081909ff6c06e3bd54aee |
completed | March 23, 2026, 12:46 p.m. |
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:16 p.m.