Triple

T7128704
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Robert S. Mulliken E166130 entity
Predicate doctoralAdvisor P167 FINISHED
Object Edward W. Washburn
Edward W. Washburn was an American physical chemist known for his work in electrochemistry and thermodynamics and for mentoring future Nobel laureate Robert S. Mulliken.
E645367 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: Edward W. Washburn | Statement: [Robert S. Mulliken, doctoralAdvisor, Edward W. Washburn]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward W. Washburn
Context triple: [Robert S. Mulliken, doctoralAdvisor, Edward W. Washburn]
  • A. James Edward Keeler
    James Edward Keeler was an American astronomer noted for his pioneering spectroscopic studies of Saturn’s rings and for his influential role in late 19th-century astrophysical research.
  • B. Bernard A. Newcomb
    Bernard A. Newcomb is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the online brokerage firm E-Trade.
  • C. Samuel DeWitt Proctor
    Samuel DeWitt Proctor was an influential American Baptist minister, educator, and civil rights leader who served as a prominent pastor and public intellectual in the mid-20th century.
  • D. Charles Conrad Abbott
    Charles Conrad Abbott was a 19th-century American archaeologist and naturalist known for his controversial claims about early human presence in North America based on artifacts from the Delaware River Valley.
  • E. James Coblentz
    James Coblentz is a film editor best known for his work on movies such as the horror film "The People Under the Stairs."
  • 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: Edward W. Washburn
Triple: [Robert S. Mulliken, doctoralAdvisor, Edward W. Washburn]
Generated description
Edward W. Washburn was an American physical chemist known for his work in electrochemistry and thermodynamics and for mentoring future Nobel laureate Robert S. Mulliken.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward W. Washburn
Target entity description: Edward W. Washburn was an American physical chemist known for his work in electrochemistry and thermodynamics and for mentoring future Nobel laureate Robert S. Mulliken.
  • A. James Edward Keeler
    James Edward Keeler was an American astronomer noted for his pioneering spectroscopic studies of Saturn’s rings and for his influential role in late 19th-century astrophysical research.
  • B. Bernard A. Newcomb
    Bernard A. Newcomb is an American entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of the online brokerage firm E-Trade.
  • C. Samuel DeWitt Proctor
    Samuel DeWitt Proctor was an influential American Baptist minister, educator, and civil rights leader who served as a prominent pastor and public intellectual in the mid-20th century.
  • D. Charles Conrad Abbott
    Charles Conrad Abbott was a 19th-century American archaeologist and naturalist known for his controversial claims about early human presence in North America based on artifacts from the Delaware River Valley.
  • E. James Coblentz
    James Coblentz is a film editor best known for his work on movies such as the horror film "The People Under the Stairs."
  • 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_69c6888350588190870cd552b427a1cd completed March 27, 2026, 1:39 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6e66b230c819090ddbc5396868305 completed March 27, 2026, 8:19 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7ad8d00848190a5a4b9b64b3426e7 completed March 28, 2026, 10:29 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7ae0bcfa4819099249fa403bed288 completed March 28, 2026, 10:31 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7ae9f8f648190adc5cdf08bc01d93 completed March 28, 2026, 10:34 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:44 p.m.