Triple
T719427
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Arthur Geoffrey Walker |
E14382
|
entity |
| Predicate | coAuthor |
P398
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Howard Percy Robertson |
E27106
|
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: Howard Percy Robertson | Statement: [Arthur Geoffrey Walker, coAuthor, Howard Percy Robertson]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard Percy Robertson Context triple: [Arthur Geoffrey Walker, coAuthor, Howard Percy Robertson]
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A.
Howard P. Robertson
chosen
Howard P. Robertson was an American mathematician and physicist known for his foundational contributions to relativistic cosmology and the formulation of the Robertson–Walker metric used in modern cosmological models.
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B.
Arthur Stanley Eddington
Arthur Stanley Eddington was a pioneering 20th-century British astrophysicist and mathematician known for his work on general relativity, stellar structure, and the 1919 eclipse expedition that confirmed Einstein’s theory of gravity.
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C.
Richard C. Tolman
Richard C. Tolman was an American physicist and physical chemist known for his contributions to statistical mechanics, thermodynamics, and cosmology, as well as his scientific advisory roles during World War II.
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D.
Robert Hanbury Brown
Robert Hanbury Brown was a British physicist and radio astronomer best known for pioneering intensity interferometry, which led to the Hanbury Brown and Twiss effect and advanced the measurement of stellar diameters.
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E.
Horace Lamb
Horace Lamb was a British applied mathematician renowned for his foundational work in hydrodynamics and the theory of sound.
- 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_69a4934a36e081909e7abef98b898a4e |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4a58e65e8819098cba7e6a20d8f33 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 8:46 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a66d936bbc81908708ee5d0fc82100 |
completed | March 3, 2026, 5:11 a.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:37 p.m.