Triple

T7337960
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Gosper glider gun E169177 entity
Predicate discoveredBy P412 FINISHED
Object Bill Gosper
Bill Gosper is an American mathematician and computer scientist known for his pioneering work in cellular automata, especially Conway’s Game of Life, and for contributions to experimental mathematics and symbolic computation.
E656654 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: Bill Gosper | Statement: [Gosper glider gun, discoveredBy, Bill Gosper]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bill Gosper
Context triple: [Gosper glider gun, discoveredBy, Bill Gosper]
  • A. Ray W. Bliss
    Ray W. Bliss was a prominent American physician and U.S. Army medical officer whose service and leadership in military medicine led to a major Army health center being named in his honor.
  • B. Ken Sallows
    Ken Sallows is an Australian film editor known for his work on numerous feature films and television productions.
  • C. Stephen Cole
    Stephen Cole was an early American settler and pioneer after whom Cole County in Missouri was named.
  • D. Alan Emtage
    Alan Emtage is a computer scientist best known for creating Archie, the first widely used Internet search engine, which laid foundational groundwork for modern web search.
  • E. Stephen Cook
    Stephen Cook is a Canadian-American computer scientist renowned for founding the field of computational complexity theory, particularly through his seminal work on NP-completeness.
  • 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: Bill Gosper
Triple: [Gosper glider gun, discoveredBy, Bill Gosper]
Generated description
Bill Gosper is an American mathematician and computer scientist known for his pioneering work in cellular automata, especially Conway’s Game of Life, and for contributions to experimental mathematics and symbolic computation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Bill Gosper
Target entity description: Bill Gosper is an American mathematician and computer scientist known for his pioneering work in cellular automata, especially Conway’s Game of Life, and for contributions to experimental mathematics and symbolic computation.
  • A. Ray W. Bliss
    Ray W. Bliss was a prominent American physician and U.S. Army medical officer whose service and leadership in military medicine led to a major Army health center being named in his honor.
  • B. Ken Sallows
    Ken Sallows is an Australian film editor known for his work on numerous feature films and television productions.
  • C. Stephen Cole
    Stephen Cole was an early American settler and pioneer after whom Cole County in Missouri was named.
  • D. Alan Emtage
    Alan Emtage is a computer scientist best known for creating Archie, the first widely used Internet search engine, which laid foundational groundwork for modern web search.
  • E. Stephen Cook
    Stephen Cook is a Canadian-American computer scientist renowned for founding the field of computational complexity theory, particularly through his seminal work on NP-completeness.
  • 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_69c68a57710481909f0c1f3c6ebdb6f2 completed March 27, 2026, 1:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f0d599c88190875514eae7084f8d completed March 27, 2026, 9:04 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7ef266fd0819096cf3ece3fff6b90 completed March 28, 2026, 3:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7efa4f5148190842f30988cbea94c completed March 28, 2026, 3:11 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7f0092bac819080ded1863f99290a completed March 28, 2026, 3:13 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:04 p.m.