Triple

T818716
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Pembroke College, Cambridge E17704 entity
Predicate notableAlumnus P304 FINISHED
Object John Sulston
John Sulston was a British biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the genetics and cell lineage of the nematode C. elegans and for his leadership in the Human Genome Project.
E103865 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: John Sulston | Statement: [Pembroke College, Cambridge, notableAlumnus, John Sulston]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Sulston
Context triple: [Pembroke College, Cambridge, notableAlumnus, John Sulston]
  • A. Phillip A. Sharp
    Phillip A. Sharp is an American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his discovery of RNA splicing and his long-standing research and leadership at MIT.
  • B. J. Michael Bishop
    J. Michael Bishop is an American immunologist and microbiologist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes, fundamentally advancing cancer biology.
  • C. Mark Ptashne
    Mark Ptashne is an American molecular biologist renowned for his pioneering work on gene regulation and the discovery of how transcription factors control gene expression in phage and eukaryotic systems.
  • D. Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
    Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard is a German developmental biologist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for her pioneering work on the genetic control of embryonic development in Drosophila.
  • E. James Watson
    James Watson is an American molecular biologist best known as a co-discoverer of the DNA double-helix structure and a Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine.
  • 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: John Sulston
Triple: [Pembroke College, Cambridge, notableAlumnus, John Sulston]
Generated description
John Sulston was a British biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the genetics and cell lineage of the nematode C. elegans and for his leadership in the Human Genome Project.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Sulston
Target entity description: John Sulston was a British biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the genetics and cell lineage of the nematode C. elegans and for his leadership in the Human Genome Project.
  • A. Phillip A. Sharp
    Phillip A. Sharp is an American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his discovery of RNA splicing and his long-standing research and leadership at MIT.
  • B. J. Michael Bishop
    J. Michael Bishop is an American immunologist and microbiologist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes, fundamentally advancing cancer biology.
  • C. Mark Ptashne
    Mark Ptashne is an American molecular biologist renowned for his pioneering work on gene regulation and the discovery of how transcription factors control gene expression in phage and eukaryotic systems.
  • D. Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
    Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard is a German developmental biologist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for her pioneering work on the genetic control of embryonic development in Drosophila.
  • E. James Watson
    James Watson is an American molecular biologist best known as a co-discoverer of the DNA double-helix structure and a Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine.
  • 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_69a4937bcaac8190a322524ac6f45a5a completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4ab656418819091ecb09e7ede2825 completed March 1, 2026, 9:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7b84122cc81909b12b69e27d50008 completed March 4, 2026, 4:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7b946a4348190bfe86d5b93696383 completed March 4, 2026, 4:47 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7b9bb13f08190ad75518ba81b210d completed March 4, 2026, 4:48 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.