Triple

T7012040
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Fernando J. Corbató E162605 entity
Predicate doctoralAdvisor P167 FINISHED
Object John C. Slater
John C. Slater was an influential American physicist known for pioneering work in quantum mechanics and solid-state physics, including the development of the Slater determinant and major contributions to electronic structure theory.
E634902 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: John C. Slater | Statement: [Fernando J. Corbató, doctoralAdvisor, John C. Slater]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John C. Slater
Context triple: [Fernando J. Corbató, doctoralAdvisor, John C. Slater]
  • A. John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
    John Hasbrouck Van Vleck was an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in quantum mechanics and the theory of magnetism in solids.
  • B. Robert S. Mulliken
    Robert S. Mulliken was an American physicist and chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering work on molecular orbital theory and the electronic structure of molecules.
  • C. Murray Feshbach
    Murray Feshbach was an American demographer and scholar known for his pioneering research on Soviet and Russian population, public health, and environmental issues.
  • D. Herman Feshbach
    Herman Feshbach was an influential American theoretical physicist known for his work in nuclear physics and his long association with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  • E. Ralph Fowler
    Ralph Fowler was a prominent British theoretical physicist and mathematician known for his influential work in statistical mechanics and quantum theory, as well as for mentoring leading physicists of the 20th century.
  • 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: John C. Slater
Triple: [Fernando J. Corbató, doctoralAdvisor, John C. Slater]
Generated description
John C. Slater was an influential American physicist known for pioneering work in quantum mechanics and solid-state physics, including the development of the Slater determinant and major contributions to electronic structure theory.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John C. Slater
Target entity description: John C. Slater was an influential American physicist known for pioneering work in quantum mechanics and solid-state physics, including the development of the Slater determinant and major contributions to electronic structure theory.
  • A. John Hasbrouck Van Vleck
    John Hasbrouck Van Vleck was an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in quantum mechanics and the theory of magnetism in solids.
  • B. Robert S. Mulliken
    Robert S. Mulliken was an American physicist and chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his pioneering work on molecular orbital theory and the electronic structure of molecules.
  • C. Murray Feshbach
    Murray Feshbach was an American demographer and scholar known for his pioneering research on Soviet and Russian population, public health, and environmental issues.
  • D. Herman Feshbach
    Herman Feshbach was an influential American theoretical physicist known for his work in nuclear physics and his long association with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  • E. Ralph Fowler
    Ralph Fowler was a prominent British theoretical physicist and mathematician known for his influential work in statistical mechanics and quantum theory, as well as for mentoring leading physicists of the 20th century.
  • 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_69c6885a127c8190867b059bdccf13ff completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6dc5729448190af66dbd6f3e8936e completed March 27, 2026, 7:36 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c76a4bd424819097e1543ec59979ff completed March 28, 2026, 5:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c76b1ef6f481908f4c4f610328f633 completed March 28, 2026, 5:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c76c01679c8190b61f642c23c25ed5 completed March 28, 2026, 5:49 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:34 p.m.