Triple

T1224912
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Cockcroft E26304 entity
Predicate coWorker P398 FINISHED
Object Ernest Walton
Ernest Walton was an Irish physicist and Nobel laureate best known for co-developing the Cockcroft–Walton accelerator, which achieved the first artificial nuclear disintegration.
E143306 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: Ernest Walton | Statement: [John Cockcroft, coWorker, Ernest Walton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ernest Walton
Context triple: [John Cockcroft, coWorker, Ernest Walton]
  • A. John Cockcroft
    John Cockcroft was a British physicist and Nobel laureate best known for splitting the atomic nucleus with Ernest Walton, pioneering early nuclear physics and contributing to the development of nuclear energy.
  • B. James Chadwick
    James Chadwick was a British physicist best known for discovering the neutron and later playing a major scientific leadership role in the development of nuclear weapons during World War II.
  • C. Cecil F. Powell
    Cecil F. Powell was a British physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in particle physics using photographic emulsion techniques.
  • D. Ernest Rutherford
    Ernest Rutherford was a pioneering New Zealand-born physicist known as the father of nuclear physics for his groundbreaking work on radioactivity and the structure of the atom.
  • E. George Paget Thomson
    George Paget Thomson was a British physicist and Nobel laureate best known for demonstrating the wave-like properties of electrons through diffraction experiments.
  • 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: Ernest Walton
Triple: [John Cockcroft, coWorker, Ernest Walton]
Generated description
Ernest Walton was an Irish physicist and Nobel laureate best known for co-developing the Cockcroft–Walton accelerator, which achieved the first artificial nuclear disintegration.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ernest Walton
Target entity description: Ernest Walton was an Irish physicist and Nobel laureate best known for co-developing the Cockcroft–Walton accelerator, which achieved the first artificial nuclear disintegration.
  • A. John Cockcroft
    John Cockcroft was a British physicist and Nobel laureate best known for splitting the atomic nucleus with Ernest Walton, pioneering early nuclear physics and contributing to the development of nuclear energy.
  • B. James Chadwick
    James Chadwick was a British physicist best known for discovering the neutron and later playing a major scientific leadership role in the development of nuclear weapons during World War II.
  • C. Cecil F. Powell
    Cecil F. Powell was a British physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in particle physics using photographic emulsion techniques.
  • D. Ernest Rutherford
    Ernest Rutherford was a pioneering New Zealand-born physicist known as the father of nuclear physics for his groundbreaking work on radioactivity and the structure of the atom.
  • E. George Paget Thomson
    George Paget Thomson was a British physicist and Nobel laureate best known for demonstrating the wave-like properties of electrons through diffraction experiments.
  • 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_69a49484688c8190a1bf285eb396a8b6 completed March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4be382c4081909238c18b805352a7 completed March 1, 2026, 10:31 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac93bcdbbc8190a5eb1f4285faa8d4 completed March 7, 2026, 9:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac9453f4488190a13ebabf3c8e07a5 completed March 7, 2026, 9:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac952f74d48190b075919e0acd513d completed March 7, 2026, 9:14 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:47 p.m.