Triple

T1193106
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sylvester Medal E25606 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object James Joseph Sylvester
James Joseph Sylvester was a prominent 19th-century English mathematician known for his foundational work in invariant theory, matrix theory, and number theory, and for co-founding the American Journal of Mathematics.
 E137173 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: James Joseph Sylvester | Statement: [Sylvester Medal, namedAfter, James Joseph Sylvester]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James Joseph Sylvester
Context triple: [Sylvester Medal, namedAfter, James Joseph Sylvester]
  • A. Augustus De Morgan
    Augustus De Morgan was a 19th-century British mathematician and logician known for formulating De Morgan's laws and contributing foundational work to symbolic logic.
  • B. Paul Gordan
    Paul Gordan was a 19th-century German mathematician known as the "king of invariant theory" for his foundational work in algebraic invariants.
  • C. Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
    Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi was a 19th-century German mathematician renowned for his fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, number theory, and differential equations.
  • D. John Charles Fields
    John Charles Fields was a Canadian mathematician best known for founding and endowing the Fields Medal, one of the most prestigious awards in mathematics.
  • E. Alfred Clebsch
    Alfred Clebsch was a 19th-century German mathematician known for his influential work in algebraic geometry and invariant theory.
  • 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: James Joseph Sylvester
Triple: [Sylvester Medal, namedAfter, James Joseph Sylvester]
Generated description
James Joseph Sylvester was a prominent 19th-century English mathematician known for his foundational work in invariant theory, matrix theory, and number theory, and for co-founding the American Journal of Mathematics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: James Joseph Sylvester
Target entity description: James Joseph Sylvester was a prominent 19th-century English mathematician known for his foundational work in invariant theory, matrix theory, and number theory, and for co-founding the American Journal of Mathematics.
  • A. Augustus De Morgan
    Augustus De Morgan was a 19th-century British mathematician and logician known for formulating De Morgan's laws and contributing foundational work to symbolic logic.
  • B. Paul Gordan
    Paul Gordan was a 19th-century German mathematician known as the "king of invariant theory" for his foundational work in algebraic invariants.
  • C. Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi
    Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi was a 19th-century German mathematician renowned for his fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, number theory, and differential equations.
  • D. John Charles Fields
    John Charles Fields was a Canadian mathematician best known for founding and endowing the Fields Medal, one of the most prestigious awards in mathematics.
  • E. Alfred Clebsch
    Alfred Clebsch was a 19th-century German mathematician known for his influential work in algebraic geometry and invariant theory.
  • 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_69a49429f5ec8190a6a205eb0ae81e5e completed March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bd761ef08190b431b80f326d1ab2 completed March 1, 2026, 10:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac764ea588819082f7d5d0e44e1211 completed March 7, 2026, 7:02 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac76e2df308190807cc6b7d7555e69 completed March 7, 2026, 7:05 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac77585c708190b5f4b239d9574cd7 completed March 7, 2026, 7:07 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:45 p.m.