Triple

T7160314
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John B. Pendry E166925 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object John
John B. Pendry is a British theoretical physicist renowned for his pioneering work in metamaterials and the concept of the perfect lens.
E645386 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: John | Statement: [John B. Pendry, givenName, John]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John
Context triple: [John B. Pendry, givenName, John]
  • A. John
    John is traditionally regarded as the author of the New Testament’s Book of Revelation, a prophetic and apocalyptic text in Christian scripture.
  • B. John
    John is the given first name of J. Edgar Hoover, the long-serving and influential first director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
  • C. John
    John is the given first name of the legendary American professional golfer Byron Nelson, one of the sport’s early great champions.
  • D. John
    John is the given name of John H. Hammond Jr., the influential American record producer and talent scout known for discovering and promoting numerous major jazz, blues, and rock musicians.
  • E. John
    John is the given name of the late American comedian and actor John Belushi, famed for his work on "Saturday Night Live" and in films like "Animal House" and "The Blues Brothers."
  • 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: John
Triple: [John B. Pendry, givenName, John]
Generated description
John B. Pendry is a British theoretical physicist renowned for his pioneering work in metamaterials and the concept of the perfect lens.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John
Target entity description: John B. Pendry is a British theoretical physicist renowned for his pioneering work in metamaterials and the concept of the perfect lens.
  • A. John
    John is the given name of John W. Cahn, a prominent American materials scientist known for his influential work in the theory of phase transformations and materials microstructure.
  • B. John
    John is the given name of John Robert Schrieffer, the American physicist and Nobel laureate known for co-developing the BCS theory of superconductivity.
  • C. John
    John is the given name of John Cockcroft, a pioneering British physicist and Nobel laureate known for his work on nuclear physics and particle acceleration.
  • D. John
    John Meurig Thomas was a renowned Welsh chemist and materials scientist known for his pioneering work in solid-state chemistry and heterogeneous catalysis.
  • E. John
    John is the given name of the British physicist J. J. Thomson, who is best known for discovering the electron and proposing the plum pudding model of the atom.
  • 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_69c68887a5cc8190bec0ea96227164f7 completed March 27, 2026, 1:39 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6e82ce770819081dccf7ffd50c2ab completed March 27, 2026, 8:27 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, 2:47 p.m.