Triple

T7887554
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Douglas D. Osheroff E183140 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Osheroff
Osheroff is the surname of Douglas D. Osheroff, an American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate known for his work on superfluidity in helium-3.
 E701260 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: Osheroff | Statement: [Douglas D. Osheroff, familyName, Osheroff]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Osheroff
Context triple: [Douglas D. Osheroff, familyName, Osheroff]
  • A. Osthoff
    Osthoff is a German-language surname borne by various individuals, including those of notable public and historical prominence.
  • B. Slichter
    Slichter is a surname most notably associated with American physicist Charles P. Slichter, renowned for his pioneering work in nuclear magnetic resonance.
  • C. Zaslofsky
    Zaslofsky is a surname most notably associated with Max Zaslofsky, an early star guard in the National Basketball Association.
  • D. Gerlach
    Gerlach is a small, remote community in northwestern Nevada best known as the gateway to the Black Rock Desert and the annual Burning Man festival.
  • E. Gerlach
    Gerlach is the highest peak in the High Tatras and in Slovakia, renowned as the tallest summit in the entire Carpathian mountain range.
  • 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: Osheroff
Triple: [Douglas D. Osheroff, familyName, Osheroff]
Generated description
Osheroff is the surname of Douglas D. Osheroff, an American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate known for his work on superfluidity in helium-3.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Osheroff
Target entity description: Osheroff is the surname of Douglas D. Osheroff, an American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate known for his work on superfluidity in helium-3.
  • A. Osthoff
    Osthoff is a German-language surname borne by various individuals, including those of notable public and historical prominence.
  • B. Slichter
    Slichter is a surname most notably associated with American physicist Charles P. Slichter, renowned for his pioneering work in nuclear magnetic resonance.
  • C. Zaslofsky
    Zaslofsky is a surname most notably associated with Max Zaslofsky, an early star guard in the National Basketball Association.
  • D. Gerlach
    Gerlach is a small, remote community in northwestern Nevada best known as the gateway to the Black Rock Desert and the annual Burning Man festival.
  • E. Gerlach
    Gerlach is the highest peak in the High Tatras and in Slovakia, renowned as the tallest summit in the entire Carpathian mountain range.
  • 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_69ca828af6e48190a06ee7010d8f0e64 completed March 30, 2026, 2:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb39d97460819089e37169813af5c2 completed March 31, 2026, 3:04 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cb5b98f9b88190b25b5c23a9ae9ced completed March 31, 2026, 5:28 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cb7631d10881908e3c7dacb98520cd completed March 31, 2026, 7:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cbbf847f3c819092d690d8d65f6d60 completed March 31, 2026, 12:35 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 4:59 p.m.