Triple

T11961052
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Wightman functions E284669 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Arthur Wightman
Arthur Wightman was an influential mathematical physicist best known for formulating the Wightman axioms, which provided a rigorous foundation for quantum field theory.
E956265 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: Arthur Wightman | Statement: [Wightman functions, namedAfter, Arthur Wightman]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Arthur Wightman
Context triple: [Wightman functions, namedAfter, Arthur Wightman]
  • A. Walter Livingston
    Walter Livingston was an American lawyer, politician, and Continental Congress delegate from New York who played a significant role in the financial administration of the early United States.
  • B. John Haviland
    John Haviland was a prominent 19th-century British-born American architect best known for pioneering radial-plan prison designs and influencing modern penitentiary architecture.
  • C. Harry Weston
    Harry Weston is the widowed pediatrician father at the center of the sitcom "Empty Nest," known for his caring nature and humorous struggles with his adult daughters living at home.
  • D. Edmund Hartt
    Edmund Hartt was an American shipbuilder best known for constructing the famed early U.S. Navy frigate USS Constitution in his Boston shipyard.
  • E. Michael Marks
    Michael Marks was a Polish-born British businessman best known as the co-founder of the major retail chain Marks & Spencer.
  • 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: Arthur Wightman
Triple: [Wightman functions, namedAfter, Arthur Wightman]
Generated description
Arthur Wightman was an influential mathematical physicist best known for formulating the Wightman axioms, which provided a rigorous foundation for quantum field theory.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Arthur Wightman
Target entity description: Arthur Wightman was an influential mathematical physicist best known for formulating the Wightman axioms, which provided a rigorous foundation for quantum field theory.
  • A. Walter Livingston
    Walter Livingston was an American lawyer, politician, and Continental Congress delegate from New York who played a significant role in the financial administration of the early United States.
  • B. John Haviland
    John Haviland was a prominent 19th-century British-born American architect best known for pioneering radial-plan prison designs and influencing modern penitentiary architecture.
  • C. Harry Weston
    Harry Weston is the widowed pediatrician father at the center of the sitcom "Empty Nest," known for his caring nature and humorous struggles with his adult daughters living at home.
  • D. Edmund Hartt
    Edmund Hartt was an American shipbuilder best known for constructing the famed early U.S. Navy frigate USS Constitution in his Boston shipyard.
  • E. Michael Marks
    Michael Marks was a Polish-born British businessman best known as the co-founder of the major retail chain Marks & Spencer.
  • 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_69d6ab2eaeb881909f7914758f859413 completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d9036941948190b150369094551731 completed April 10, 2026, 2:04 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f4592fa9a48190a0450e3d0c57c4d3 completed May 1, 2026, 7:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f4645ef63881909b46937f73d637a3 completed May 1, 2026, 8:29 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f465be4db08190882898a17d077019 completed May 1, 2026, 8:35 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:45 p.m.