Triple

T7025148
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Brian Reid E162925 entity
Predicate hasAcademicAdvisor P167 FINISHED
Object Donald Knuth E17089 NE FINISHED

Named-entity recognition

Before disambiguation, gpt-5-mini classified whether the object phrase is a named entity — the step behind the object's NE type shown above.

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: Donald Knuth | Statement: [Brian Reid, hasAcademicAdvisor, Donald Knuth]

Disambiguation candidates (1 decision)

The exact options the model was shown at each disambiguation step, with the option it chose highlighted — the evidence behind this triple's disambiguated ids.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Donald Knuth
Context triple: [Brian Reid, hasAcademicAdvisor, Donald Knuth]
  • A. Donald E. Knuth chosen
    Donald E. Knuth is an American computer scientist renowned for founding the rigorous analysis of algorithms and authoring the seminal multi-volume work "The Art of Computer Programming."
  • B. Robert W Floyd
    Robert W. Floyd was an influential American computer scientist and Turing Award laureate known for his pioneering work in algorithms, formal verification, and programming language semantics.
  • C. Jon Bentley
    Jon Bentley is a computer scientist and author best known for his influential "Programming Pearls" columns and books on programming techniques and problem solving.
  • D. Edsger W. Dijkstra
    Edsger W. Dijkstra was a pioneering Dutch computer scientist known for fundamental contributions to algorithms, programming languages, and software engineering, including Dijkstra's algorithm for shortest paths.
  • E. Alfred V. Aho
    Alfred V. Aho is a Canadian computer scientist renowned for his foundational contributions to algorithms, programming languages, and compiler design, and as a co-creator of the AWK programming language.
  • F. None of above.
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Provenance (3 batches)

Stage Batch ID Job type Status
creating batch_69c6885b26248190a857541e3d10e299 elicitation completed
NER batch_69c6e1fb8f0c8190b15dd7ce7ab6a8f2 ner completed
NED1 batch_69c77581e2a88190ad2ec9855772c6a5 ned_source_triple completed
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:35 p.m.