Triple

T7593355
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject President of the American Physical Society E179793 entity
Predicate officeHolder P537 FINISHED
Object Robert L. Byer
Robert L. Byer is an American physicist renowned for his pioneering work in laser science and nonlinear optics.
E674706 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: Robert L. Byer | Statement: [President of the American Physical Society, officeHolder, Robert L. Byer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert L. Byer
Context triple: [President of the American Physical Society, officeHolder, Robert L. Byer]
  • A. Federico Capasso
    Federico Capasso is an Italian-American physicist renowned for pioneering work in quantum electronics and nanophotonics, including the invention of the quantum cascade laser.
  • B. Roy Glauber
    Roy Glauber was an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in quantum optics and the quantum theory of optical coherence.
  • C. Carl E. Wieman
    Carl E. Wieman is an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in Bose–Einstein condensation and contributions to physics education.
  • D. William D. Phillips
    William D. Phillips is an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in laser cooling and trapping of atoms.
  • E. Eli Yablonovitch
    Eli Yablonovitch is an American physicist and engineer renowned as a pioneer of photonic crystals and a leading figure in the field of photonics and optoelectronics.
  • 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: Robert L. Byer
Triple: [President of the American Physical Society, officeHolder, Robert L. Byer]
Generated description
Robert L. Byer is an American physicist renowned for his pioneering work in laser science and nonlinear optics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert L. Byer
Target entity description: Robert L. Byer is an American physicist renowned for his pioneering work in laser science and nonlinear optics.
  • A. Federico Capasso
    Federico Capasso is an Italian-American physicist renowned for pioneering work in quantum electronics and nanophotonics, including the invention of the quantum cascade laser.
  • B. Roy Glauber
    Roy Glauber was an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in quantum optics and the quantum theory of optical coherence.
  • C. Carl E. Wieman
    Carl E. Wieman is an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in Bose–Einstein condensation and contributions to physics education.
  • D. William D. Phillips
    William D. Phillips is an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in laser cooling and trapping of atoms.
  • E. Eli Yablonovitch
    Eli Yablonovitch is an American physicist and engineer renowned as a pioneer of photonic crystals and a leading figure in the field of photonics and optoelectronics.
  • 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_69c69f3487ec8190bf7acdf2dd91e6d6 completed March 27, 2026, 3:16 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f9bab3a08190a2c36b2c72a1de25 completed March 27, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c86197fe0881908307a411cabdca7f completed March 28, 2026, 11:17 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c86223bfec8190b47f840e39c9a51a completed March 28, 2026, 11:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c862bb95e881909a60608a5279238d completed March 28, 2026, 11:22 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:53 p.m.