Triple

T7421042
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Steven A. Coons Award E171245 entity
Predicate hasRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Turner Whitted
Turner Whitted is a pioneering computer graphics researcher best known for introducing recursive ray tracing, a foundational technique for realistic image synthesis.
E662798 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: Turner Whitted | Statement: [Steven A. Coons Award, hasRecipient, Turner Whitted]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Turner Whitted
Context triple: [Steven A. Coons Award, hasRecipient, Turner Whitted]
  • A. Elgin Turner
    Elgin Turner is the birth name of Masta Killa, an American rapper best known as a member of the influential hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan.
  • B. Turner Layton
    Turner Layton was an American songwriter, pianist, and singer best known for co-writing popular early 20th-century standards such as "After You've Gone" and "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans."
  • C. Joseph Wightman
    Joseph Wightman was a British Army officer best known for commanding government forces against the Jacobites during the early 18th-century uprisings.
  • D. Johnny Whitaker
    Johnny Whitaker is an American former child actor best known for his roles in the TV series "Family Affair" and films such as "Tom Sawyer" (1973) and "The Biscuit Eater."
  • E. William Van Tine
    William Van Tine was an American architect known for contributing to the design of Fair Lane, the historic Henry Ford estate in Dearborn, Michigan.
  • 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: Turner Whitted
Triple: [Steven A. Coons Award, hasRecipient, Turner Whitted]
Generated description
Turner Whitted is a pioneering computer graphics researcher best known for introducing recursive ray tracing, a foundational technique for realistic image synthesis.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Turner Whitted
Target entity description: Turner Whitted is a pioneering computer graphics researcher best known for introducing recursive ray tracing, a foundational technique for realistic image synthesis.
  • A. Elgin Turner
    Elgin Turner is the birth name of Masta Killa, an American rapper best known as a member of the influential hip hop group Wu-Tang Clan.
  • B. Turner Layton
    Turner Layton was an American songwriter, pianist, and singer best known for co-writing popular early 20th-century standards such as "After You've Gone" and "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans."
  • C. Joseph Wightman
    Joseph Wightman was a British Army officer best known for commanding government forces against the Jacobites during the early 18th-century uprisings.
  • D. Johnny Whitaker
    Johnny Whitaker is an American former child actor best known for his roles in the TV series "Family Affair" and films such as "Tom Sawyer" (1973) and "The Biscuit Eater."
  • E. William Van Tine
    William Van Tine was an American architect known for contributing to the design of Fair Lane, the historic Henry Ford estate in Dearborn, Michigan.
  • 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_69c68a625d048190af70eb8b63bec5a0 completed March 27, 2026, 1:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f2ebc520819087cfc2eb9dda0e17 completed March 27, 2026, 9:13 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c81ef7fc808190a564ab4d9d97ab37 completed March 28, 2026, 6:33 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c81f9b565881909bebcc3112037f52 completed March 28, 2026, 6:36 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c8207912f4819086e99ed441bee805 completed March 28, 2026, 6:39 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:11 p.m.