Triple
T7247699
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | William H. Press |
E156517
|
entity |
| Predicate | coAuthoredWith |
P2389
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
William T. Vetterling
William T. Vetterling is a computer scientist and software developer best known as a co-author of the influential scientific computing book "Numerical Recipes."
|
E714786
|
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: William T. Vetterling | Statement: [William H. Press, coAuthoredWith, William T. Vetterling]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William T. Vetterling Context triple: [William H. Press, coAuthoredWith, William T. Vetterling]
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A.
John F. Hartwig
John F. Hartwig is an American chemist renowned for pioneering work in organometallic chemistry and catalytic reactions, particularly in C–H activation and cross-coupling.
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B.
William R. Schowalter
William R. Schowalter is an American chemical engineer and fluid dynamicist renowned for his pioneering contributions to non-Newtonian fluid mechanics and transport phenomena.
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C.
Charles Rettig
Charles Rettig is an American tax attorney who served as the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from 2018 to 2022.
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D.
Ralph E. Winters
Ralph E. Winters was an Academy Award–winning Canadian-American film editor known for his work on numerous major Hollywood films throughout the mid-20th century.
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E.
Clarence Randall Van Buskirk
Clarence Randall Van Buskirk was an American architect best known for designing Brooklyn’s historic Ebbets Field baseball stadium.
- 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: William T. Vetterling Triple: [William H. Press, coAuthoredWith, William T. Vetterling]
Generated description
William T. Vetterling is a computer scientist and software developer best known as a co-author of the influential scientific computing book "Numerical Recipes."
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William T. Vetterling Target entity description: William T. Vetterling is a computer scientist and software developer best known as a co-author of the influential scientific computing book "Numerical Recipes."
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A.
John F. Hartwig
John F. Hartwig is an American chemist renowned for pioneering work in organometallic chemistry and catalytic reactions, particularly in C–H activation and cross-coupling.
-
B.
William R. Schowalter
William R. Schowalter is an American chemical engineer and fluid dynamicist renowned for his pioneering contributions to non-Newtonian fluid mechanics and transport phenomena.
-
C.
Charles Rettig
Charles Rettig is an American tax attorney who served as the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from 2018 to 2022.
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D.
Ralph E. Winters
Ralph E. Winters was an Academy Award–winning Canadian-American film editor known for his work on numerous major Hollywood films throughout the mid-20th century.
-
E.
Clarence Randall Van Buskirk
Clarence Randall Van Buskirk was an American architect best known for designing Brooklyn’s historic Ebbets Field baseball stadium.
- 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_69c68827b5e481908dc05e145b2c92d4 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 1:37 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c6ea749fb08190841c0aa8c5bd0727 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 8:37 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ccbd5d671481908ecbdb8ce6ef898a |
completed | April 1, 2026, 6:38 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69ccc24a39f88190995f076d1a7ec3e7 |
completed | April 1, 2026, 6:59 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69ccc37f0ca88190b4e077f23dbbe6f8 |
completed | April 1, 2026, 7:04 a.m. |
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:56 p.m.