Triple

T7047108
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lynn Harold Loomis E163664 entity
Predicate coauthor P2389 FINISHED
Object George W. Mackey
George W. Mackey was an American mathematician known for his influential work in representation theory, ergodic theory, and the foundations of quantum mechanics.
E639089 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: George W. Mackey | Statement: [Lynn Harold Loomis, coauthor, George W. Mackey]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George W. Mackey
Context triple: [Lynn Harold Loomis, coauthor, George W. Mackey]
  • A. Klaus Samelson
    Klaus Samelson was a German mathematician and computer scientist known as a pioneer of early programming language design and compiler development, particularly through his work on ALGOL.
  • B. James R. Newman
    James R. Newman was an American mathematician, lawyer, and author best known for co-authoring the popular science classic "Mathematics and the Imagination" and editing the influential anthology "The World of Mathematics."
  • C. Garrett Birkhoff
    Garrett Birkhoff was an American mathematician best known for his foundational work in lattice theory and abstract algebra.
  • D. Morris L. Eaton
    Morris L. Eaton is an American statistician known for his contributions to multivariate analysis and decision theory, and for his influential work as a student of Emanuel Parzen.
  • E. Harish-Chandra
    Harish-Chandra was a pioneering mathematician and physicist best known for his fundamental contributions to representation theory and harmonic analysis on Lie groups.
  • 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: George W. Mackey
Triple: [Lynn Harold Loomis, coauthor, George W. Mackey]
Generated description
George W. Mackey was an American mathematician known for his influential work in representation theory, ergodic theory, and the foundations of quantum mechanics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George W. Mackey
Target entity description: George W. Mackey was an American mathematician known for his influential work in representation theory, ergodic theory, and the foundations of quantum mechanics.
  • A. Klaus Samelson
    Klaus Samelson was a German mathematician and computer scientist known as a pioneer of early programming language design and compiler development, particularly through his work on ALGOL.
  • B. James R. Newman
    James R. Newman was an American mathematician, lawyer, and author best known for co-authoring the popular science classic "Mathematics and the Imagination" and editing the influential anthology "The World of Mathematics."
  • C. Garrett Birkhoff
    Garrett Birkhoff was an American mathematician best known for his foundational work in lattice theory and abstract algebra.
  • D. Morris L. Eaton
    Morris L. Eaton is an American statistician known for his contributions to multivariate analysis and decision theory, and for his influential work as a student of Emanuel Parzen.
  • E. Harish-Chandra
    Harish-Chandra was a pioneering mathematician and physicist best known for his fundamental contributions to representation theory and harmonic analysis on Lie groups.
  • 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_69c6885f598c8190b6b6495c59d8d962 completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6e23a72f481909ce77ef73b06ea95 completed March 27, 2026, 8:02 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7887e6e50819088c23c9b45861a54 completed March 28, 2026, 7:51 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c78a822ab0819097e2b40d4b9e044f completed March 28, 2026, 8 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c78b33f5308190a3f234a2c0bd8b9c completed March 28, 2026, 8:03 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:37 p.m.