Triple

T9571192
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dennis Sciama E230919 entity
Predicate influenced P9 FINISHED
Object David Sciama
David Sciama is a British theoretical physicist known for his influential work in cosmology and for mentoring a generation of leading scientists in gravitation and astrophysics.
E45978 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: David Sciama | Statement: [Dennis Sciama, influenced, David Sciama]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Sciama
Context triple: [Dennis Sciama, influenced, David Sciama]
  • A. Dennis Sciama
    Dennis Sciama was a prominent British theoretical physicist and cosmologist who played a key role in developing modern cosmology and mentoring a generation of leading physicists.
  • B. Alan Cowan
    Alan Cowan is a tense, sharp-tongued New York lawyer and one of the four central parents in Roman Polanski’s film "Carnage," whose escalating argument drives the movie’s darkly comic conflict.
  • C. Nicholas Sagan
    Nicholas Sagan is the son of science communicator Ann Druyan and famed astronomer Carl Sagan.
  • D. Sam Bard Treiman
    Sam Bard Treiman was an influential American theoretical physicist known for his major contributions to particle physics and for mentoring several prominent physicists.
  • E. Robert Danforth
    Robert Danforth is a practical, industrious blacksmith who serves as the foil to the idealistic watchmaker Owen Warland in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story "The Artist of the Beautiful."
  • 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: David Sciama
Triple: [Dennis Sciama, influenced, David Sciama]
Generated description
David Sciama is a British theoretical physicist known for his influential work in cosmology and for mentoring a generation of leading scientists in gravitation and astrophysics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Sciama
Target entity description: David Sciama is a British theoretical physicist known for his influential work in cosmology and for mentoring a generation of leading scientists in gravitation and astrophysics.
  • A. Dennis Sciama chosen
    Dennis Sciama was a prominent British theoretical physicist and cosmologist who played a key role in developing modern cosmology and mentoring a generation of leading physicists.
  • B. Alan Cowan
    Alan Cowan is a tense, sharp-tongued New York lawyer and one of the four central parents in Roman Polanski’s film "Carnage," whose escalating argument drives the movie’s darkly comic conflict.
  • C. Nicholas Sagan
    Nicholas Sagan is the son of science communicator Ann Druyan and famed astronomer Carl Sagan.
  • D. Sam Bard Treiman
    Sam Bard Treiman was an influential American theoretical physicist known for his major contributions to particle physics and for mentoring several prominent physicists.
  • E. Robert Danforth
    Robert Danforth is a practical, industrious blacksmith who serves as the foil to the idealistic watchmaker Owen Warland in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story "The Artist of the Beautiful."
  • F. None of above.

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_69ca847f22188190a56e4a97625bef22 completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd998ab5948190be78db4eed7825a0 completed April 1, 2026, 10:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d190d741588190a2cced8da13036bb completed April 4, 2026, 10:29 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d193623fac8190a8dcdac664a977f3 completed April 4, 2026, 10:40 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d193cc61208190b98fe862b295dda3 completed April 4, 2026, 10:42 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:04 p.m.