Triple

T6434780
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Harry Kroto E129865 entity
Predicate coDiscoveredWith P5336 FINISHED
Object Robert Curl
Robert Curl was an American chemist and Nobel laureate best known for co-discovering buckminsterfullerene (C60), a landmark finding in the field of nanotechnology and carbon chemistry.
 E595830 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: Robert Curl | Statement: [Harry Kroto, coDiscoveredWith, Robert Curl]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Robert Curl
Context triple: [Harry Kroto, coDiscoveredWith, Robert Curl]
  • A. William N. Lipscomb Jr.
    William N. Lipscomb Jr. was an American chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in the structure and bonding of boranes and other boron-containing compounds.
  • B. Ronald Breslow
    Ronald Breslow was a prominent American chemist renowned for his pioneering work in biomimetic chemistry and for major contributions to organic reaction mechanisms and vitamin B₁ chemistry.
  • C. Harry Kroto
    Harry Kroto was a British chemist and Nobel laureate best known for co-discovering the carbon molecule buckminsterfullerene (C60), a key advance in the field of nanotechnology and carbon chemistry.
  • D. Paul von Ragué Schleyer
    Paul von Ragué Schleyer was a prominent theoretical and physical organic chemist known for his influential work on carbocations, computational chemistry, and the structure and stability of organic molecules.
  • E. Eugene G. Rochow
    Eugene G. Rochow was an American inorganic chemist renowned for pioneering organosilicon chemistry and the direct process for producing silicones, achievements that earned him the Priestley Medal.
  • 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: Robert Curl
Triple: [Harry Kroto, coDiscoveredWith, Robert Curl]
Generated description
Robert Curl was an American chemist and Nobel laureate best known for co-discovering buckminsterfullerene (C60), a landmark finding in the field of nanotechnology and carbon chemistry.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Robert Curl
Target entity description: Robert Curl was an American chemist and Nobel laureate best known for co-discovering buckminsterfullerene (C60), a landmark finding in the field of nanotechnology and carbon chemistry.
  • A. William N. Lipscomb Jr.
    William N. Lipscomb Jr. was an American chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in the structure and bonding of boranes and other boron-containing compounds.
  • B. Ronald Breslow
    Ronald Breslow was a prominent American chemist renowned for his pioneering work in biomimetic chemistry and for major contributions to organic reaction mechanisms and vitamin B₁ chemistry.
  • C. Harry Kroto
    Harry Kroto was a British chemist and Nobel laureate best known for co-discovering the carbon molecule buckminsterfullerene (C60), a key advance in the field of nanotechnology and carbon chemistry.
  • D. Paul von Ragué Schleyer
    Paul von Ragué Schleyer was a prominent theoretical and physical organic chemist known for his influential work on carbocations, computational chemistry, and the structure and stability of organic molecules.
  • E. Eugene G. Rochow
    Eugene G. Rochow was an American inorganic chemist renowned for pioneering organosilicon chemistry and the direct process for producing silicones, achievements that earned him the Priestley Medal.
  • 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_69c0084caac48190a7bc2ad8ba44536f completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c069415c3c8190b91bd12ae79edd26 completed March 22, 2026, 10:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6538ca31c8190b4a24662c4eeffe9 completed March 27, 2026, 9:53 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6542f23548190a0905c0e2c7341f6 completed March 27, 2026, 9:55 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c654918d9881909f3886ec52a7b00b completed March 27, 2026, 9:57 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:45 p.m.