Triple

T926696
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Timoshenko Medal E19998 entity
Predicate hasNotableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object William Prager
William Prager was a prominent 20th-century engineer and applied mathematician known for his foundational contributions to plasticity theory and solid mechanics.
 E235739 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: William Prager | Statement: [Timoshenko Medal, hasNotableRecipient, William Prager]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Prager
Context triple: [Timoshenko Medal, hasNotableRecipient, William Prager]
  • A. Walter Naegle
    Walter Naegle is an American activist and archivist best known as the longtime partner and estate executor of civil rights leader Bayard Rustin.
  • B. Alfred P. Boller
    Alfred P. Boller was an American civil engineer known for designing major infrastructure projects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. William Wendt
    William Wendt was a prominent American landscape painter celebrated as a leading figure of the California Impressionist movement.
  • D. Arthur J. Altmeyer
    Arthur J. Altmeyer was a key architect of the U.S. Social Security system and a prominent public administrator in the development of American social welfare policy.
  • E. William Sachse
    William Sachse was a 19th-century Texas pioneer and landowner after whom the city of Sachse, Texas, is named.
  • 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: William Prager
Triple: [Timoshenko Medal, hasNotableRecipient, William Prager]
Generated description
William Prager was a prominent 20th-century engineer and applied mathematician known for his foundational contributions to plasticity theory and solid mechanics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Prager
Target entity description: William Prager was a prominent 20th-century engineer and applied mathematician known for his foundational contributions to plasticity theory and solid mechanics.
  • A. Walter Naegle
    Walter Naegle is an American activist and archivist best known as the longtime partner and estate executor of civil rights leader Bayard Rustin.
  • B. Alfred P. Boller
    Alfred P. Boller was an American civil engineer known for designing major infrastructure projects in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. William Wendt
    William Wendt was a prominent American landscape painter celebrated as a leading figure of the California Impressionist movement.
  • D. Arthur J. Altmeyer
    Arthur J. Altmeyer was a key architect of the U.S. Social Security system and a prominent public administrator in the development of American social welfare policy.
  • E. William Sachse
    William Sachse was a 19th-century Texas pioneer and landowner after whom the city of Sachse, Texas, is named.
  • 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_69a493af3dc48190adb7263e6e445ea1 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b32c5b508190a570c94a6647ba70 completed March 1, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae5150360881909dabd3d6d12f83e1 completed March 9, 2026, 4:49 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae51e8aaa48190919397831d46db23 completed March 9, 2026, 4:51 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae526dd8608190baefb3101884c83f completed March 9, 2026, 4:54 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:40 p.m.