Triple

T7000444
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Claude E. Shannon Award E162321 entity
Predicate notableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Robert E. Blahut
Robert E. Blahut is an American electrical engineer and information theorist known for his influential contributions to coding theory, including the Blahut–Arimoto algorithm, and for authoring foundational texts in the field.
E639659 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 E. Blahut | Statement: [Claude E. Shannon Award, notableRecipient, Robert E. Blahut]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert E. Blahut
Context triple: [Claude E. Shannon Award, notableRecipient, Robert E. Blahut]
  • A. Robert M. Fano
    Robert M. Fano was an influential Italian-American computer scientist and information theorist known for his foundational contributions to coding theory and for co-developing Shannon–Fano coding.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Thomas M. Cover
    Thomas M. Cover was an influential American information theorist and Stanford professor known for his foundational contributions to information theory, statistics, and machine learning.
  • E. Gottfried Ungerboeck
    Gottfried Ungerboeck is an electrical engineer best known for pioneering trellis-coded modulation, a breakthrough in digital communications that significantly improved data transmission reliability and efficiency.
  • 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 E. Blahut
Triple: [Claude E. Shannon Award, notableRecipient, Robert E. Blahut]
Generated description
Robert E. Blahut is an American electrical engineer and information theorist known for his influential contributions to coding theory, including the Blahut–Arimoto algorithm, and for authoring foundational texts in the field.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert E. Blahut
Target entity description: Robert E. Blahut is an American electrical engineer and information theorist known for his influential contributions to coding theory, including the Blahut–Arimoto algorithm, and for authoring foundational texts in the field.
  • A. Robert M. Fano
    Robert M. Fano was an influential Italian-American computer scientist and information theorist known for his foundational contributions to coding theory and for co-developing Shannon–Fano coding.
  • B. 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.
  • C. 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.
  • D. Thomas M. Cover
    Thomas M. Cover was an influential American information theorist and Stanford professor known for his foundational contributions to information theory, statistics, and machine learning.
  • E. Gottfried Ungerboeck
    Gottfried Ungerboeck is an electrical engineer best known for pioneering trellis-coded modulation, a breakthrough in digital communications that significantly improved data transmission reliability and efficiency.
  • 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_69c7943400d08190ba5774e5d45e7e27 completed March 28, 2026, 8:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c794ddbb688190b197a934c0afaea0 completed March 28, 2026, 8:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c79531e0408190bbacba54914393f9 completed March 28, 2026, 8:45 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:33 p.m.