Triple
T9730451
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | George Ellis |
E235724
|
entity |
| Predicate | coAuthor |
P398
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Dennis W. Sciama |
E45978
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Dennis W. Sciama | Statement: [George Ellis, coAuthor, Dennis W. Sciama]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dennis W. Sciama Context triple: [George Ellis, coAuthor, Dennis W. Sciama]
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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.
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B.
Willis E. Davidge
Willis E. Davidge is a human fighter pilot who becomes stranded on an alien world and forges an unlikely bond with his Drac enemy in the science fiction story "Enemy Mine."
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C.
Robert H. Dicke
Robert H. Dicke was an influential American physicist known for his pioneering work in gravitation, cosmology, and microwave physics, including contributions that helped establish the Big Bang theory.
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D.
John Ernest Randall
John Ernest Randall was a physicist and academic known for his contributions to nuclear physics and for being a prominent student of Ernest Marsden.
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E.
Edwin E. Salpeter
Edwin E. Salpeter was an influential Austrian–Australian astrophysicist best known for his pioneering work on stellar nucleosynthesis and the initial mass function of stars.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ca84d0fad481909cdd45aa77416c48 |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:12 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cd9eb0ff488190ac32ed304a3cd3bc |
completed | April 1, 2026, 10:39 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d1eabcf3148190b25e4f816f4dcd13 |
completed | April 5, 2026, 4:53 a.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:21 p.m.