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]
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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."
  • 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.
  • 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.