Triple

T6834228
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Fan Chung E157409 entity
Predicate doctoralAdvisor P167 FINISHED
Object Henry Pollak
Henry Pollak is an American mathematician known for his work in applied mathematics and combinatorics, as well as his influential role in mathematics education and industry research at Bell Labs.
E623993 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: Henry Pollak | Statement: [Fan Chung, doctoralAdvisor, Henry Pollak]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Henry Pollak
Context triple: [Fan Chung, doctoralAdvisor, Henry Pollak]
  • A. Henry Polak
    Henry Polak was a British-born journalist and close associate of Mahatma Gandhi who played a key role in the Indian nationalist and civil rights movement in South Africa.
  • B. Henry Alsberg
    Henry Alsberg was an American journalist, editor, and theater producer best known for directing the New Deal–era Federal Writers’ Project, which employed thousands of writers during the Great Depression.
  • C. Henry Kolker
    Henry Kolker was an American stage and film actor and director active in the early 20th century, known for his character roles in both silent and sound films.
  • D. Julius Novick
    Julius Novick was an American theater critic and scholar known for his insightful writing on contemporary drama and performance.
  • E. Edmund Meisel
    Edmund Meisel was a German composer best known for his pioneering, politically charged film scores for silent cinema, particularly his work on Soviet montage films.
  • 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: Henry Pollak
Triple: [Fan Chung, doctoralAdvisor, Henry Pollak]
Generated description
Henry Pollak is an American mathematician known for his work in applied mathematics and combinatorics, as well as his influential role in mathematics education and industry research at Bell Labs.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Henry Pollak
Target entity description: Henry Pollak is an American mathematician known for his work in applied mathematics and combinatorics, as well as his influential role in mathematics education and industry research at Bell Labs.
  • A. Henry Polak
    Henry Polak was a British-born journalist and close associate of Mahatma Gandhi who played a key role in the Indian nationalist and civil rights movement in South Africa.
  • B. Henry Alsberg
    Henry Alsberg was an American journalist, editor, and theater producer best known for directing the New Deal–era Federal Writers’ Project, which employed thousands of writers during the Great Depression.
  • C. Henry Kolker
    Henry Kolker was an American stage and film actor and director active in the early 20th century, known for his character roles in both silent and sound films.
  • D. Julius Novick
    Julius Novick was an American theater critic and scholar known for his insightful writing on contemporary drama and performance.
  • E. Edmund Meisel
    Edmund Meisel was a German composer best known for his pioneering, politically charged film scores for silent cinema, particularly his work on Soviet montage films.
  • 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_69c6882c53608190b99aebef079b23bd completed March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6d67936288190829fedc3729aadd8 completed March 27, 2026, 7:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c72fab60708190825876e5715c0cc4 completed March 28, 2026, 1:32 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7374ba15081909353f52e432a96e0 completed March 28, 2026, 2:04 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c737b1481c8190a0b590c841ea079f completed March 28, 2026, 2:06 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:18 p.m.