Triple
T6214854
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | John W. Cahn |
E138960
|
entity |
| Predicate | fullName |
P16
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
John Werner Cahn
John Werner Cahn was an influential American materials scientist and physicist known for his pioneering work on phase transformations and the thermodynamics of microstructural evolution in solids.
|
E578254
|
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: John Werner Cahn | Statement: [John W. Cahn, fullName, John Werner Cahn]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Werner Cahn Context triple: [John W. Cahn, fullName, John Werner Cahn]
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A.
Louis Kraemer
Louis Kraemer was a party to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Shelley v. Kraemer, which held that courts could not enforce racially restrictive housing covenants.
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B.
Fred Herzog
Fred Herzog was a silent film actor active in the 1920s, known for appearing in early American cinema productions.
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C.
Paul Hirsch
Paul Hirsch is an American film editor renowned for his work on major Hollywood films, including the original Star Wars.
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D.
Jacob Kershner
Jacob Kershner was the first husband of anarchist activist and writer Emma Goldman, known primarily through his brief and troubled marriage to her in the late 19th century.
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E.
Richard Leibler
Richard Leibler was an American mathematician and statistician best known for co-developing the Kullback–Leibler divergence, a fundamental concept in information theory and statistics.
- 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: John Werner Cahn Triple: [John W. Cahn, fullName, John Werner Cahn]
Generated description
John Werner Cahn was an influential American materials scientist and physicist known for his pioneering work on phase transformations and the thermodynamics of microstructural evolution in solids.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Werner Cahn Target entity description: John Werner Cahn was an influential American materials scientist and physicist known for his pioneering work on phase transformations and the thermodynamics of microstructural evolution in solids.
-
A.
Louis Kraemer
Louis Kraemer was a party to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case Shelley v. Kraemer, which held that courts could not enforce racially restrictive housing covenants.
-
B.
Fred Herzog
Fred Herzog was a silent film actor active in the 1920s, known for appearing in early American cinema productions.
-
C.
Paul Hirsch
Paul Hirsch is an American film editor renowned for his work on major Hollywood films, including the original Star Wars.
-
D.
Jacob Kershner
Jacob Kershner was the first husband of anarchist activist and writer Emma Goldman, known primarily through his brief and troubled marriage to her in the late 19th century.
-
E.
Richard Leibler
Richard Leibler was an American mathematician and statistician best known for co-developing the Kullback–Leibler divergence, a fundamental concept in information theory and statistics.
- 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_69c008ada364819096c9e92c74d639b5 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c062a0e0488190b71b42386bacf982 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 9:44 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c20dacf1788190a655c39bd248fde8 |
completed | March 24, 2026, 4:06 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69c2141927288190bad4ec024997a45e |
completed | March 24, 2026, 4:33 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69c214d7f2d08190bd6dab4da08c97dc |
completed | March 24, 2026, 4:36 a.m. |
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:21 p.m.