Triple

T925425
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject University of St Andrews E19971 entity
Predicate hasNotableAlumnus P51 FINISHED
Object Sir James Black
Sir James Black was a Scottish pharmacologist and Nobel laureate renowned for developing the first beta-blocker and the H2 receptor antagonist cimetidine, revolutionizing treatments for heart disease and peptic ulcers.
E115566 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: Sir James Black | Statement: [University of St Andrews, hasNotableAlumnus, Sir James Black]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir James Black
Context triple: [University of St Andrews, hasNotableAlumnus, Sir James Black]
  • A. Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
    Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins was an English biochemist and Nobel laureate renowned for discovering essential nutrients later known as vitamins and for pioneering the field of nutritional biochemistry.
  • B. Charles Best
    Charles Best was a Canadian physiologist best known for co-discovering insulin alongside Frederick Banting, a breakthrough that revolutionized the treatment of diabetes.
  • C. John James Rickard Macleod
    John James Rickard Macleod was a Scottish physiologist and Nobel Prize–winning co-discoverer of insulin whose work fundamentally transformed the treatment of diabetes.
  • D. Arthur Geoffrey Walker
    Arthur Geoffrey Walker was a British mathematician and physicist best known for his foundational contributions to relativistic cosmology, particularly the development of the Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker (FLRW) metric.
  • E. Frederick Banting
    Frederick Banting was a Canadian medical scientist and physician best known for co-discovering insulin, a breakthrough that revolutionized the treatment of diabetes and earned him the Nobel Prize 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: Sir James Black
Triple: [University of St Andrews, hasNotableAlumnus, Sir James Black]
Generated description
Sir James Black was a Scottish pharmacologist and Nobel laureate renowned for developing the first beta-blocker and the H2 receptor antagonist cimetidine, revolutionizing treatments for heart disease and peptic ulcers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir James Black
Target entity description: Sir James Black was a Scottish pharmacologist and Nobel laureate renowned for developing the first beta-blocker and the H2 receptor antagonist cimetidine, revolutionizing treatments for heart disease and peptic ulcers.
  • A. Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
    Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins was an English biochemist and Nobel laureate renowned for discovering essential nutrients later known as vitamins and for pioneering the field of nutritional biochemistry.
  • B. Charles Best
    Charles Best was a Canadian physiologist best known for co-discovering insulin alongside Frederick Banting, a breakthrough that revolutionized the treatment of diabetes.
  • C. John James Rickard Macleod
    John James Rickard Macleod was a Scottish physiologist and Nobel Prize–winning co-discoverer of insulin whose work fundamentally transformed the treatment of diabetes.
  • D. Arthur Geoffrey Walker
    Arthur Geoffrey Walker was a British mathematician and physicist best known for his foundational contributions to relativistic cosmology, particularly the development of the Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker (FLRW) metric.
  • E. Frederick Banting
    Frederick Banting was a Canadian medical scientist and physician best known for co-discovering insulin, a breakthrough that revolutionized the treatment of diabetes and earned him the Nobel Prize 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_69a493a099788190a696d9d8408cbaf4 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b32ad9f88190b7d477d0a9a9dbc8 completed March 1, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac1cd3444881908615a7962b4eef67 completed March 7, 2026, 12:40 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac1d2fc87c8190938cc8ce31d52343 completed March 7, 2026, 12:42 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac1db7ef408190b4f7fd04c3c4c111 completed March 7, 2026, 12:44 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:40 p.m.