Triple
T7054168
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | IEEE Information Theory Society Distinguished Service Award |
E164042
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableRecipient |
P108
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Thomas M. Cover |
E165813
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Thomas M. Cover | Statement: [IEEE Information Theory Society Distinguished Service Award, notableRecipient, Thomas M. Cover]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas M. Cover Context triple: [IEEE Information Theory Society Distinguished Service Award, notableRecipient, Thomas M. Cover]
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A.
Thomas M. Cover
chosen
Thomas M. Cover was an influential American information theorist and Stanford professor known for his foundational contributions to information theory, statistics, and machine learning.
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B.
Andrea Goldsmith
Andrea Goldsmith is an American electrical engineer and academic renowned for her pioneering contributions to wireless communications and information theory.
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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.
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D.
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.
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E.
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.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69c68861678881909961ddf4d779f750 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c6e265ea348190a9bd3807c0d605d8 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 8:02 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c788980b50819085473407a176e04b |
completed | March 28, 2026, 7:51 a.m. |
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:37 p.m.