Triple

T12408478
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Frederic Ives Medal E296449 entity
Predicate notableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Tingye Li
Tingye Li was a pioneering Chinese-American optical engineer and physicist renowned for his foundational contributions to laser and fiber-optic communications.
E985418 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: Tingye Li | Statement: [Frederic Ives Medal, notableRecipient, Tingye Li]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tingye Li
Context triple: [Frederic Ives Medal, notableRecipient, Tingye Li]
  • A. Xing Li
    Xing Li is the creator and original developer of FanFiction.net, one of the largest and earliest online archives for user-written fan fiction.
  • B. Xing Li
    Xing Li is a computer networking expert known for co-authoring IETF standards, including RFC 6145 on IPv4/IPv6 translation mechanisms.
  • C. Yuhuai Wu
    Yuhuai Wu is an AI researcher and entrepreneur known for his work on large language models and as a member of Elon Musk’s xAI team.
  • D. Geling Yan
    Geling Yan is a Chinese-American novelist and screenwriter known for her emotionally powerful works that often explore the human impact of war, political upheaval, and social change in modern Chinese history.
  • E. Xiaodong Chen
    Xiaodong Chen is a prominent materials scientist and nanotechnology researcher who serves as editor-in-chief of the journal ACS Nano.
  • 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: Tingye Li
Triple: [Frederic Ives Medal, notableRecipient, Tingye Li]
Generated description
Tingye Li was a pioneering Chinese-American optical engineer and physicist renowned for his foundational contributions to laser and fiber-optic communications.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Tingye Li
Target entity description: Tingye Li was a pioneering Chinese-American optical engineer and physicist renowned for his foundational contributions to laser and fiber-optic communications.
  • A. Xing Li
    Xing Li is the creator and original developer of FanFiction.net, one of the largest and earliest online archives for user-written fan fiction.
  • B. Xing Li
    Xing Li is a computer networking expert known for co-authoring IETF standards, including RFC 6145 on IPv4/IPv6 translation mechanisms.
  • C. Yuhuai Wu
    Yuhuai Wu is an AI researcher and entrepreneur known for his work on large language models and as a member of Elon Musk’s xAI team.
  • D. Geling Yan
    Geling Yan is a Chinese-American novelist and screenwriter known for her emotionally powerful works that often explore the human impact of war, political upheaval, and social change in modern Chinese history.
  • E. Xiaodong Chen
    Xiaodong Chen is a prominent materials scientist and nanotechnology researcher who serves as editor-in-chief of the journal ACS Nano.
  • 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_69d6ad9f464c81909db36d7e96e34b9e completed April 8, 2026, 7:33 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d94d4a08e0819085c656e35038e6b2 completed April 10, 2026, 7:19 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f63efe60388190944fe3226be4cc7c completed May 2, 2026, 6:14 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f64305712881908a8ccd884b19e602 completed May 2, 2026, 6:31 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f644dc87b08190a99846fee86b0570 completed May 2, 2026, 6:39 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:55 p.m.