Triple

T7000434
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Claude E. Shannon Award E162321 entity
Predicate notableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Robert G. Gallager
Robert G. Gallager is an American electrical engineer and information theorist renowned for his foundational contributions to coding theory and data communications.
E636369 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 G. Gallager | Statement: [Claude E. Shannon Award, notableRecipient, Robert G. Gallager]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert G. Gallager
Context triple: [Claude E. Shannon Award, notableRecipient, Robert G. Gallager]
  • A. Andrew Viterbi
    Andrew Viterbi is an Italian-American engineer and co-founder of Qualcomm best known for inventing the Viterbi algorithm, a fundamental method used in digital communication and error correction.
  • B. Paul E. Gray
    Paul E. Gray was an American electrical engineer and educator who served as president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and was known for advancing engineering education and university–industry collaboration.
  • C. Leonard Kleinrock
    Leonard Kleinrock is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer best known for his foundational work on packet-switching theory that underpinned the development of the ARPANET and the modern Internet.
  • D. Robert Kahn
    Robert Kahn is an American electrical engineer and computer scientist best known as a co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocols that form the foundation of the modern Internet.
  • E. Robert Kahn
    Robert Kahn, better known as Bob Kane, was an American comic book artist and writer best known as the co-creator of the iconic superhero Batman.
  • 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 G. Gallager
Triple: [Claude E. Shannon Award, notableRecipient, Robert G. Gallager]
Generated description
Robert G. Gallager is an American electrical engineer and information theorist renowned for his foundational contributions to coding theory and data communications.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert G. Gallager
Target entity description: Robert G. Gallager is an American electrical engineer and information theorist renowned for his foundational contributions to coding theory and data communications.
  • A. Andrew Viterbi
    Andrew Viterbi is an Italian-American engineer and co-founder of Qualcomm best known for inventing the Viterbi algorithm, a fundamental method used in digital communication and error correction.
  • B. Paul E. Gray
    Paul E. Gray was an American electrical engineer and educator who served as president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and was known for advancing engineering education and university–industry collaboration.
  • C. Leonard Kleinrock
    Leonard Kleinrock is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer best known for his foundational work on packet-switching theory that underpinned the development of the ARPANET and the modern Internet.
  • D. Robert Kahn
    Robert Kahn, better known as Bob Kane, was an American comic book artist and writer best known as the co-creator of the iconic superhero Batman.
  • E. Robert Kahn
    Robert Kahn is an American electrical engineer and computer scientist best known as a co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocols that form the foundation of the modern Internet.
  • 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_69c68857ffc08190857dc62cd5253777 completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6dc0e54c88190b092870f2d128510 completed March 27, 2026, 7:35 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c775573c84819081f34ab2b14b700a completed March 28, 2026, 6:29 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c777b443e88190a4f7c9e069d2a7a4 completed March 28, 2026, 6:39 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7789d07c08190b6b6479ffbbc9f3e completed March 28, 2026, 6:43 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:33 p.m.