Triple
T6233045
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Cockcroft–Walton generator |
E139401
|
entity |
| Predicate | namedAfter |
P63
|
FINISHED |
| Object | John Douglas Cockcroft |
E26304
|
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: John Douglas Cockcroft | Statement: [Cockcroft–Walton generator, namedAfter, John Douglas Cockcroft]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Douglas Cockcroft Context triple: [Cockcroft–Walton generator, namedAfter, John Douglas Cockcroft]
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A.
John Cockcroft
chosen
John Cockcroft was a British physicist and Nobel laureate best known for splitting the atomic nucleus with Ernest Walton, pioneering early nuclear physics and contributing to the development of nuclear energy.
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B.
Ernest Walton
Ernest Walton was an Irish physicist and Nobel laureate best known for co-developing the Cockcroft–Walton accelerator, which achieved the first artificial nuclear disintegration.
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C.
James Chadwick
James Chadwick was a British physicist best known for discovering the neutron and later playing a major scientific leadership role in the development of nuclear weapons during World War II.
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D.
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford was a pioneering New Zealand-born physicist known as the father of nuclear physics for his groundbreaking work on radioactivity and the structure of the atom.
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E.
Ernest Marsden
Ernest Marsden was a British-New Zealand physicist best known for co-conducting the gold foil experiment that led to the discovery of the atomic nucleus.
- 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_69c008b0e7ac8190808a59573ee646f3 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c062efa25c8190a54f5a6f5b5ad24f |
completed | March 22, 2026, 9:45 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c5190757648190a73575e680a35684 |
completed | March 26, 2026, 11:31 a.m. |
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:22 p.m.