Triple

T6765588
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Richard N. Zare E154709 entity
Predicate doctoralStudent P167 FINISHED
Object Richard Saykally
Richard Saykally is an American chemist renowned for his pioneering work in spectroscopy and molecular physics, particularly in the study of water and clusters.
E617549 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: Richard Saykally | Statement: [Richard N. Zare, doctoralStudent, Richard Saykally]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Saykally
Context triple: [Richard N. Zare, doctoralStudent, Richard Saykally]
  • A. Michael Ashburner
    Michael Ashburner is a British biologist and geneticist renowned for his pioneering work on Drosophila genomics and for co-founding the Gene Ontology project.
  • B. Douglas J. Foskett
    Douglas J. Foskett was a British librarian and information scientist known for his influential work in library classification and information retrieval.
  • C. Charles J.D. Schlissel
    Charles J.D. Schlissel is a film producer best known for his work on major Hollywood thrillers such as "Flightplan."
  • D. Peter A. Tyrrell
    Peter A. Tyrrell was an American sports executive and promoter best known for his role in establishing and developing the early professional basketball franchise that became the Philadelphia Warriors.
  • E. Richard K. Sutherland
    Richard K. Sutherland was a senior U.S. Army officer who served as General Douglas MacArthur’s chief of staff and key strategist in the Pacific during World War II.
  • 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: Richard Saykally
Triple: [Richard N. Zare, doctoralStudent, Richard Saykally]
Generated description
Richard Saykally is an American chemist renowned for his pioneering work in spectroscopy and molecular physics, particularly in the study of water and clusters.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Saykally
Target entity description: Richard Saykally is an American chemist renowned for his pioneering work in spectroscopy and molecular physics, particularly in the study of water and clusters.
  • A. Michael Ashburner
    Michael Ashburner is a British biologist and geneticist renowned for his pioneering work on Drosophila genomics and for co-founding the Gene Ontology project.
  • B. Douglas J. Foskett
    Douglas J. Foskett was a British librarian and information scientist known for his influential work in library classification and information retrieval.
  • C. Charles J.D. Schlissel
    Charles J.D. Schlissel is a film producer best known for his work on major Hollywood thrillers such as "Flightplan."
  • D. Peter A. Tyrrell
    Peter A. Tyrrell was an American sports executive and promoter best known for his role in establishing and developing the early professional basketball franchise that became the Philadelphia Warriors.
  • E. Richard K. Sutherland
    Richard K. Sutherland was a senior U.S. Army officer who served as General Douglas MacArthur’s chief of staff and key strategist in the Pacific during World War II.
  • 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_69c688109c1c8190added9a221292af0 completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d22ed30881909e1bfcfb8cf175a2 completed March 27, 2026, 6:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c712be7f9c8190b2667fc4c8d5f601 completed March 27, 2026, 11:29 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c713842b9c8190ae31eba0bd449968 completed March 27, 2026, 11:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c71444e9ec8190a68531ed29fd9377 completed March 27, 2026, 11:35 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:12 p.m.