Triple
T1165477
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Rumford Medal |
E24588
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableRecipient |
P108
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Charles K. Kao |
E19769
|
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: Charles K. Kao | Statement: [Rumford Medal, notableRecipient, Charles K. Kao]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles K. Kao Context triple: [Rumford Medal, notableRecipient, Charles K. Kao]
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A.
Charles K. Kao
chosen
Charles K. Kao was a pioneering physicist and electrical engineer known as the "father of fiber optics" for his groundbreaking work enabling high-speed optical fiber communications.
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B.
Zhores Alferov
Zhores Alferov was a Soviet and Russian physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on semiconductor heterostructures, which underpins modern electronics and optoelectronics.
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C.
Yuan T. Lee
Yuan T. Lee is a Taiwanese chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in chemical reaction dynamics.
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D.
Nick Holonyak Jr.
Nick Holonyak Jr. was an American engineer and inventor best known for creating the first practical visible-spectrum LED, earning him recognition as a pioneer in semiconductor lighting technology.
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E.
Shuji Nakamura
Shuji Nakamura is a Japanese-American engineer and physicist best known for inventing the efficient blue LED, a breakthrough that enabled modern white LED lighting and earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics.
- 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_69a494060e148190abb42f971242c197 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4bccc62a88190882d8801908015a4 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 10:25 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ac668290008190a5e175c0a2e5feb0 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 5:55 p.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:45 p.m.