Triple

T6528687
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Robert Edwards E151370 entity
Predicate coWorker P398 FINISHED
Object Patrick Steptoe
Patrick Steptoe was a British obstetrician and gynecologist who pioneered in vitro fertilization techniques, leading to the birth of the world’s first “test-tube baby.”
 E602102 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: Patrick Steptoe | Statement: [Robert Edwards, coWorker, Patrick Steptoe]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Patrick Steptoe
Context triple: [Robert Edwards, coWorker, Patrick Steptoe]
  • A. Robert Edwards
    Robert Edwards is a British physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate best known for pioneering in vitro fertilization (IVF), which led to the birth of the first “test-tube baby.”
  • B. Sidney Farber
    Sidney Farber was an American pathologist and pioneering oncologist often called the "father of modern chemotherapy" for his groundbreaking work in treating childhood leukemia.
  • C. Christiaan Barnard
    Christiaan Barnard was a South African cardiac surgeon best known for performing the world’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant in 1967.
  • D. Carl Djerassi
    Carl Djerassi was an Austrian-American chemist best known for his pioneering role in the development of the first oral contraceptive pill.
  • E. Alexander Cowper Hutchison
    Alexander Cowper Hutchison was a prominent 19th-century Canadian architect known for designing significant public and institutional buildings in Montreal.
  • 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: Patrick Steptoe
Triple: [Robert Edwards, coWorker, Patrick Steptoe]
Generated description
Patrick Steptoe was a British obstetrician and gynecologist who pioneered in vitro fertilization techniques, leading to the birth of the world’s first “test-tube baby.”
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Patrick Steptoe
Target entity description: Patrick Steptoe was a British obstetrician and gynecologist who pioneered in vitro fertilization techniques, leading to the birth of the world’s first “test-tube baby.”
  • A. Robert Edwards
    Robert Edwards is a British physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate best known for pioneering in vitro fertilization (IVF), which led to the birth of the first “test-tube baby.”
  • B. Sidney Farber
    Sidney Farber was an American pathologist and pioneering oncologist often called the "father of modern chemotherapy" for his groundbreaking work in treating childhood leukemia.
  • C. Christiaan Barnard
    Christiaan Barnard was a South African cardiac surgeon best known for performing the world’s first successful human-to-human heart transplant in 1967.
  • D. Carl Djerassi
    Carl Djerassi was an Austrian-American chemist best known for his pioneering role in the development of the first oral contraceptive pill.
  • E. Alexander Cowper Hutchison
    Alexander Cowper Hutchison was a prominent 19th-century Canadian architect known for designing significant public and institutional buildings in Montreal.
  • 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_69c687f522748190b3058405553cdabd completed March 27, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6adaafbfc8190a3e3c75ea5958c67 completed March 27, 2026, 4:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6cb7a85dc8190a97138a20728b43f completed March 27, 2026, 6:24 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6cd049fac81908c955caa0ccac5ba completed March 27, 2026, 6:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c6ce00096c8190a3015bcd392e0ce4 completed March 27, 2026, 6:35 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 1:46 p.m.