Triple

T6991798
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Computer History Museum Fellow Award E162101 entity
Predicate hasRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Charles Thacker
Charles Thacker was a pioneering computer engineer best known for his work on the Xerox Alto, one of the first personal computers with a graphical user interface, and for his influential contributions to modern computing hardware and networking.
E738116 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: Charles Thacker | Statement: [Computer History Museum Fellow Award, hasRecipient, Charles Thacker]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Thacker
Context triple: [Computer History Museum Fellow Award, hasRecipient, Charles Thacker]
  • A. Matthias N. Forney
    Matthias N. Forney was a 19th-century American mechanical engineer and locomotive designer who played a key role in the early professionalization of mechanical engineering in the United States.
  • B. Richard T. Wetherald
    Richard T. Wetherald was an atmospheric scientist known for his pioneering work with Syukuro Manabe on early climate modeling and the greenhouse effect.
  • C. Porter J. McCumber
    Porter J. McCumber was an American Republican senator from North Dakota best known for co-sponsoring the protectionist Fordney–McCumber Tariff of 1922.
  • D. Bradford M. Durfee
    Bradford M. Durfee was a prominent local industrialist and philanthropist from Fall River, Massachusetts, for whom Durfee Hall was named in recognition of his contributions to the community.
  • E. James L. Massey
    James L. Massey was an American information theorist and cryptographer known for his fundamental contributions to coding theory, stream ciphers, and the development of the Berlekamp–Massey algorithm.
  • 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: Charles Thacker
Triple: [Computer History Museum Fellow Award, hasRecipient, Charles Thacker]
Generated description
Charles Thacker was a pioneering computer engineer best known for his work on the Xerox Alto, one of the first personal computers with a graphical user interface, and for his influential contributions to modern computing hardware and networking.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Thacker
Target entity description: Charles Thacker was a pioneering computer engineer best known for his work on the Xerox Alto, one of the first personal computers with a graphical user interface, and for his influential contributions to modern computing hardware and networking.
  • A. Matthias N. Forney
    Matthias N. Forney was a 19th-century American mechanical engineer and locomotive designer who played a key role in the early professionalization of mechanical engineering in the United States.
  • B. Richard T. Wetherald
    Richard T. Wetherald was an atmospheric scientist known for his pioneering work with Syukuro Manabe on early climate modeling and the greenhouse effect.
  • C. Porter J. McCumber
    Porter J. McCumber was an American Republican senator from North Dakota best known for co-sponsoring the protectionist Fordney–McCumber Tariff of 1922.
  • D. Bradford M. Durfee
    Bradford M. Durfee was a prominent local industrialist and philanthropist from Fall River, Massachusetts, for whom Durfee Hall was named in recognition of his contributions to the community.
  • E. James L. Massey
    James L. Massey was an American information theorist and cryptographer known for his fundamental contributions to coding theory, stream ciphers, and the development of the Berlekamp–Massey algorithm.
  • 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_69c68856d7808190ab33ee914640281b completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6dbc1f63c8190837cfd71cf5ed613 completed March 27, 2026, 7:34 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ce4d3697848190be759069962a8f00 completed April 2, 2026, 11:04 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ce4f556a408190b404481a32b2457b completed April 2, 2026, 11:13 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ce503737a4819083ebf9f410eac826 completed April 2, 2026, 11:17 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:32 p.m.