Triple

T886672
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Leslie Lamport E19144 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object "Reaching Agreement in the Presence of Faults"
"Reaching Agreement in the Presence of Faults" is a seminal paper in distributed computing that introduced the Byzantine Generals Problem and laid the foundations for understanding consensus in unreliable, fault-prone systems.
E105801 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: "Reaching Agreement in the Presence of Faults" | Statement: [Leslie Lamport, notableWork, "Reaching Agreement in the Presence of Faults"]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: "Reaching Agreement in the Presence of Faults"
Context triple: [Leslie Lamport, notableWork, "Reaching Agreement in the Presence of Faults"]
  • A. Paxos
    Paxos is a small Greek island in the Ionian Sea, known for its clear turquoise waters, olive groves, and tranquil, less-touristed atmosphere.
  • B. Secrecy, Authentication, and Public Key Systems
    "Secrecy, Authentication, and Public Key Systems" is Ralph Merkle's influential doctoral thesis that helped lay the foundations of modern public-key cryptography and secure communication protocols.
  • C. Merkle puzzles
    Merkle puzzles are an early cryptographic protocol that introduced the concept of public-key exchange by allowing two parties to establish a shared secret over an insecure channel using computationally asymmetric “puzzle” problems.
  • D. Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing
    Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing is a 1985 ACM conference volume collecting influential research papers in theoretical computer science, including foundational work on topics such as interactive proof systems and computational complexity.
  • E. IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing
    The IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing is a professional body within the IEEE Computer Society that focuses on advancing research, standards, and community activities in distributed computing systems and related technologies.
  • 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: "Reaching Agreement in the Presence of Faults"
Triple: [Leslie Lamport, notableWork, "Reaching Agreement in the Presence of Faults"]
Generated description
"Reaching Agreement in the Presence of Faults" is a seminal paper in distributed computing that introduced the Byzantine Generals Problem and laid the foundations for understanding consensus in unreliable, fault-prone systems.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: "Reaching Agreement in the Presence of Faults"
Target entity description: "Reaching Agreement in the Presence of Faults" is a seminal paper in distributed computing that introduced the Byzantine Generals Problem and laid the foundations for understanding consensus in unreliable, fault-prone systems.
  • A. Paxos
    Paxos is a small Greek island in the Ionian Sea, known for its clear turquoise waters, olive groves, and tranquil, less-touristed atmosphere.
  • B. Secrecy, Authentication, and Public Key Systems
    "Secrecy, Authentication, and Public Key Systems" is Ralph Merkle's influential doctoral thesis that helped lay the foundations of modern public-key cryptography and secure communication protocols.
  • C. Merkle puzzles
    Merkle puzzles are an early cryptographic protocol that introduced the concept of public-key exchange by allowing two parties to establish a shared secret over an insecure channel using computationally asymmetric “puzzle” problems.
  • D. Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing
    Proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual ACM Symposium on Theory of Computing is a 1985 ACM conference volume collecting influential research papers in theoretical computer science, including foundational work on topics such as interactive proof systems and computational complexity.
  • E. IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing
    The IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing is a professional body within the IEEE Computer Society that focuses on advancing research, standards, and community activities in distributed computing systems and related technologies.
  • 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_69a4939c32488190a7ccd41cf0abb22b completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4ace714ec81909b0b1deaeac66be5 completed March 1, 2026, 9:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7c021732c8190a3b4020f8e3cb90e completed March 4, 2026, 5:16 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7c0f4bd348190a5c258650a92958a completed March 4, 2026, 5:19 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7c206d5c481908f45fcf9b94eec14 completed March 4, 2026, 5:24 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:39 p.m.