Triple

T910939
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Rufus Oldenburger Medal E19655 entity
Predicate hasNotableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Stephen P. Boyd
Stephen P. Boyd is an American professor of electrical engineering and a leading expert in convex optimization and control theory, widely recognized for his influential research and textbooks in these fields.
E107500 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: Stephen P. Boyd | Statement: [Rufus Oldenburger Medal, hasNotableRecipient, Stephen P. Boyd]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Stephen P. Boyd
Context triple: [Rufus Oldenburger Medal, hasNotableRecipient, Stephen P. Boyd]
  • A. Thomas Kailath
    Thomas Kailath is an Indian-American electrical engineer and Stanford professor renowned for his influential contributions to information theory, control, and signal processing.
  • B. William Karush
    William Karush was an American mathematician best known for his early formulation of the Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions, a cornerstone of nonlinear optimization theory.
  • C. Petar V. Kokotović
    Petar V. Kokotović is a prominent control systems engineer known for his foundational contributions to nonlinear and adaptive control theory and influential academic leadership in the field.
  • D. Alberto Isidori
    Alberto Isidori is a prominent Italian control theorist renowned for his foundational contributions to nonlinear control systems and geometric control theory.
  • E. J. R. McCarl
    J. R. McCarl was an American government official who served as the first Comptroller General of the United States, playing a key role in establishing federal auditing and fiscal oversight practices.
  • 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: Stephen P. Boyd
Triple: [Rufus Oldenburger Medal, hasNotableRecipient, Stephen P. Boyd]
Generated description
Stephen P. Boyd is an American professor of electrical engineering and a leading expert in convex optimization and control theory, widely recognized for his influential research and textbooks in these fields.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Stephen P. Boyd
Target entity description: Stephen P. Boyd is an American professor of electrical engineering and a leading expert in convex optimization and control theory, widely recognized for his influential research and textbooks in these fields.
  • A. Thomas Kailath
    Thomas Kailath is an Indian-American electrical engineer and Stanford professor renowned for his influential contributions to information theory, control, and signal processing.
  • B. William Karush
    William Karush was an American mathematician best known for his early formulation of the Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions, a cornerstone of nonlinear optimization theory.
  • C. Petar V. Kokotović
    Petar V. Kokotović is a prominent control systems engineer known for his foundational contributions to nonlinear and adaptive control theory and influential academic leadership in the field.
  • D. Alberto Isidori
    Alberto Isidori is a prominent Italian control theorist renowned for his foundational contributions to nonlinear control systems and geometric control theory.
  • E. J. R. McCarl
    J. R. McCarl was an American government official who served as the first Comptroller General of the United States, playing a key role in establishing federal auditing and fiscal oversight practices.
  • 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_69a4939f91a08190ba68c2c81eab90fe completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b2de5b008190851852331db41324 completed March 1, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7c73d5bdc8190828cdf9f54e33a46 completed March 4, 2026, 5:46 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7c8c148708190bfdee5a55ab6d149 completed March 4, 2026, 5:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7ca1e37f4819086cda13a446642e2 completed March 4, 2026, 5:58 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:39 p.m.