Triple
T7316100
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | American school of relativistic cosmology |
E168415
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableTheorist |
P55473
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Howard P. 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 P. Robertson | Statement: [American school of relativistic cosmology, notableTheorist, Howard P. Robertson]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howard P. Robertson Context triple: [American school of relativistic cosmology, notableTheorist, Howard P. 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.
Edwin F. Taylor
Edwin F. Taylor is an American physicist and educator best known for his influential textbooks and popularizations of special and general relativity.
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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.
William Eddins McMath
William Eddins McMath was an American individual known primarily through genealogical records as the husband of Lela Emogene Owens McMath.
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E.
Robert B. Leighton
Robert B. Leighton was an American experimental physicist and educator known for his contributions to cosmic-ray and infrared astronomy and for coauthoring the influential Feynman Lectures on Physics.
- 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_69c68a5251508190ad68df4151cfeb04 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 1:46 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c6ef162d488190bf1c63b71b20a294 |
completed | March 27, 2026, 8:56 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c7eef3b1c48190ae65a136121b39cb |
completed | March 28, 2026, 3:08 p.m. |
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:02 p.m.