Triple

T7074043
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award E164769 entity
Predicate notableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Marshall Kirk McKusick
Marshall Kirk McKusick is an American computer scientist best known for his pioneering work on the BSD Unix operating system and its filesystems.
E639782 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: Marshall Kirk McKusick | Statement: [USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award, notableRecipient, Marshall Kirk McKusick]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Marshall Kirk McKusick
Context triple: [USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award, notableRecipient, Marshall Kirk McKusick]
  • A. Hal McKusick
    Hal McKusick was an American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer known for his cool-toned style and work in the 1950s modern jazz scene.
  • B. Walter Bodmer
    Walter Bodmer is a prominent British human geneticist and immunologist known for his influential work on the genetics of human populations and cancer.
  • C. Arthur J. Ornitz
    Arthur J. Ornitz was an American cinematographer known for his work on influential films of the 1960s and 1970s, contributing a distinctive visual style to contemporary cinema.
  • D. Thomas Gerdine
    Thomas Gerdine was an early mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of Glacier Peak in Washington State.
  • E. John Vogelstein
    John Vogelstein was a prominent American private equity investor and longtime co-leader of Warburg Pincus, where he helped shape the modern buyout and growth-investing industry.
  • 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: Marshall Kirk McKusick
Triple: [USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award, notableRecipient, Marshall Kirk McKusick]
Generated description
Marshall Kirk McKusick is an American computer scientist best known for his pioneering work on the BSD Unix operating system and its filesystems.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Marshall Kirk McKusick
Target entity description: Marshall Kirk McKusick is an American computer scientist best known for his pioneering work on the BSD Unix operating system and its filesystems.
  • A. Hal McKusick
    Hal McKusick was an American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, and composer known for his cool-toned style and work in the 1950s modern jazz scene.
  • B. Walter Bodmer
    Walter Bodmer is a prominent British human geneticist and immunologist known for his influential work on the genetics of human populations and cancer.
  • C. Arthur J. Ornitz
    Arthur J. Ornitz was an American cinematographer known for his work on influential films of the 1960s and 1970s, contributing a distinctive visual style to contemporary cinema.
  • D. Thomas Gerdine
    Thomas Gerdine was an early mountaineer known for making the first recorded ascent of Glacier Peak in Washington State.
  • E. John Vogelstein
    John Vogelstein was a prominent American private equity investor and longtime co-leader of Warburg Pincus, where he helped shape the modern buyout and growth-investing industry.
  • 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_69c6887b96548190a8a9b3ac8adf4119 completed March 27, 2026, 1:39 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6e4ccb42c81909f5627aa97db7a84 completed March 27, 2026, 8:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c794641dd481908df979600b7a8e92 completed March 28, 2026, 8:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7950271a48190b6e0c3f307ebdc5a completed March 28, 2026, 8:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7957439b8819081fb2721bbd8b65c completed March 28, 2026, 8:46 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:39 p.m.