Triple

T9347281
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Penrose Medal E224923 entity
Predicate notableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Allan V. Cox
Allan V. Cox was an American geophysicist renowned for his pioneering work on paleomagnetism and plate tectonics.
 E809547 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: Allan V. Cox | Statement: [Penrose Medal, notableRecipient, Allan V. Cox]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Allan V. Cox
Context triple: [Penrose Medal, notableRecipient, Allan V. Cox]
  • A. Allan J. Hook
    Allan J. Hook was an artist associated with the Cullercoats artist colony, a noted 19th-century community of painters on the northeast coast of England.
  • B. Fred M. Wilcox
    Fred M. Wilcox was an American film director best known for the science fiction classic "Forbidden Planet" and the family film "Lassie Come Home."
  • C. Allan F. Nicholls
    Allan F. Nicholls is an American actor, director, and screenwriter known for his collaborations with filmmaker Robert Altman in the 1970s.
  • D. Robert N. Fitch
    Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
  • E. Robert J. Kolenkow
    Robert J. Kolenkow is a physicist and educator best known as the co-author of the influential undergraduate textbook "An Introduction to Mechanics."
  • 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: Allan V. Cox
Triple: [Penrose Medal, notableRecipient, Allan V. Cox]
Generated description
Allan V. Cox was an American geophysicist renowned for his pioneering work on paleomagnetism and plate tectonics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Allan V. Cox
Target entity description: Allan V. Cox was an American geophysicist renowned for his pioneering work on paleomagnetism and plate tectonics.
  • A. Allan J. Hook
    Allan J. Hook was an artist associated with the Cullercoats artist colony, a noted 19th-century community of painters on the northeast coast of England.
  • B. Fred M. Wilcox
    Fred M. Wilcox was an American film director best known for the science fiction classic "Forbidden Planet" and the family film "Lassie Come Home."
  • C. Allan F. Nicholls
    Allan F. Nicholls is an American actor, director, and screenwriter known for his collaborations with filmmaker Robert Altman in the 1970s.
  • D. Robert N. Fitch
    Robert N. Fitch was a composer best known for writing the University of California fight song "Fight for California."
  • E. Robert J. Kolenkow
    Robert J. Kolenkow is a physicist and educator best known as the co-author of the influential undergraduate textbook "An Introduction to Mechanics."
  • 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_69ca842993248190a79ab06968994b86 completed March 30, 2026, 2:09 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd4f0f4c4c8190a94c0d44ef349d7d completed April 1, 2026, 4:59 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d178c93484819086ca14e196461178 completed April 4, 2026, 8:47 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d179e99d6481909d31145b6e627a29 completed April 4, 2026, 8:51 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d17a3aebfc8190acbe62ac900dd9e7 completed April 4, 2026, 8:53 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:41 p.m.