Triple

T100458
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Bell Telephone Laboratories E2027 entity
Predicate employed P7 FINISHED
Object Walter Brattain E16476 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: Walter Brattain | Statement: [Bell Telephone Laboratories, employed, Walter Brattain]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Walter Brattain
Context triple: [Bell Telephone Laboratories, employed, Walter Brattain]
  • A. Walter Brattain chosen
    Walter Brattain was an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known as one of the co-inventors of the transistor.
  • B. William Shockley
    William Shockley was an American physicist and co-inventor of the transistor whose work helped launch the field of solid-state electronics and earned him a share of the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics.
  • C. John Bardeen
    John Bardeen was an American physicist and electrical engineer, uniquely renowned for being the only person to win the Nobel Prize in Physics twice for his work on the transistor and superconductivity.
  • D. I. I. Rabi
    I. I. Rabi was a Nobel Prize–winning American physicist renowned for his pioneering work in nuclear magnetic resonance and contributions to quantum physics.
  • E. Ernest O. Lawrence
    Ernest O. Lawrence was an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known for inventing the cyclotron and pioneering nuclear physics research.
  • 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_69a24d4862f881908cc8b89d3a78031d completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:04 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a24ff1a8cc8190843d4c6807cebd09 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:16 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a305e1600c81909e421bf423229878 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:12 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:09 a.m.