Triple

T8672947
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Howard Aiken E205843 entity
Predicate designed P184 FINISHED
Object Harvard Mark III computer
The Harvard Mark III computer was an early electromechanical/digital hybrid computer developed in the late 1940s that advanced stored-program concepts and military computation at Harvard University.
E754756 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: Harvard Mark III computer | Statement: [Howard Aiken, designed, Harvard Mark III computer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harvard Mark III computer
Context triple: [Howard Aiken, designed, Harvard Mark III computer]
  • A. Harvard Mark I computer
    The Harvard Mark I computer was an early electromechanical, general-purpose computer built during World War II that pioneered the separation of data and instruction storage later known as the Harvard architecture.
  • B. UNIVAC I
    UNIVAC I was one of the earliest commercial electronic computers, pioneering large-scale data processing for government and business in the early 1950s.
  • C. Mark-8 computer
    The Mark-8 computer was an early 1970s do-it-yourself microcomputer kit for hobbyists, notable as one of the first published designs for a home computer.
  • D. EDVAC
    EDVAC was one of the earliest electronic stored-program computers, pioneering the use of binary arithmetic and influencing the development of modern computer architecture.
  • E. IBM 704
    The IBM 704 was a pioneering 1950s vacuum-tube mainframe computer notable for its support of floating-point arithmetic and its influential role in early high-level programming languages and computer architecture.
  • 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: Harvard Mark III computer
Triple: [Howard Aiken, designed, Harvard Mark III computer]
Generated description
The Harvard Mark III computer was an early electromechanical/digital hybrid computer developed in the late 1940s that advanced stored-program concepts and military computation at Harvard University.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harvard Mark III computer
Target entity description: The Harvard Mark III computer was an early electromechanical/digital hybrid computer developed in the late 1940s that advanced stored-program concepts and military computation at Harvard University.
  • A. Harvard Mark I computer
    The Harvard Mark I computer was an early electromechanical, general-purpose computer built during World War II that pioneered the separation of data and instruction storage later known as the Harvard architecture.
  • B. UNIVAC I
    UNIVAC I was one of the earliest commercial electronic computers, pioneering large-scale data processing for government and business in the early 1950s.
  • C. Mark-8 computer
    The Mark-8 computer was an early 1970s do-it-yourself microcomputer kit for hobbyists, notable as one of the first published designs for a home computer.
  • D. EDVAC
    EDVAC was one of the earliest electronic stored-program computers, pioneering the use of binary arithmetic and influencing the development of modern computer architecture.
  • E. IBM 704
    The IBM 704 was a pioneering 1950s vacuum-tube mainframe computer notable for its support of floating-point arithmetic and its influential role in early high-level programming languages and computer architecture.
  • 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_69ca83529a9c8190b5c075b4f14636ed completed March 30, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc491b807c81909563a34a947bc21a completed March 31, 2026, 10:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cf4277f84881909e3cc60eeaf05586 completed April 3, 2026, 4:30 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cf440051bc8190ad9d649150187932 completed April 3, 2026, 4:37 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cf4473ee0081908ed22eb0d855d7dd completed April 3, 2026, 4:39 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:31 p.m.