Triple

T12408479
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Frederic Ives Medal E296449 entity
Predicate notableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Stephen A. Benton
Stephen A. Benton was an American scientist and inventor best known for pioneering modern holography and developing the rainbow hologram used on credit cards and security labels.
E1381690 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: Stephen A. Benton | Statement: [Frederic Ives Medal, notableRecipient, Stephen A. Benton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Stephen A. Benton
Context triple: [Frederic Ives Medal, notableRecipient, Stephen A. Benton]
  • A. George T. Dunlap
    George T. Dunlap was an American publisher best known as a co-founder of the prominent publishing house Grosset & Dunlap.
  • B. Samuel J. Kirkwood
    Samuel J. Kirkwood was a 19th-century American politician best known for serving as governor of Iowa and as a U.S. senator during the Civil War era.
  • C. James B. Ricketts
    James B. Ricketts was a Union Army general during the American Civil War, noted for his leadership in several major battles.
  • D. George D. Barnett
    George D. Barnett was an American architect known for designing prominent ecclesiastical and civic buildings in the early 20th century, particularly in St. Louis, Missouri.
  • E. Charles R. Boling
    Charles R. Boling was a prominent supporter and benefactor of the University of Tennessee whose contributions led to the major campus venue Thompson–Boling Arena bearing his name.
  • 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: Stephen A. Benton
Triple: [Frederic Ives Medal, notableRecipient, Stephen A. Benton]
Generated description
Stephen A. Benton was an American scientist and inventor best known for pioneering modern holography and developing the rainbow hologram used on credit cards and security labels.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Stephen A. Benton
Target entity description: Stephen A. Benton was an American scientist and inventor best known for pioneering modern holography and developing the rainbow hologram used on credit cards and security labels.
  • A. George T. Dunlap
    George T. Dunlap was an American publisher best known as a co-founder of the prominent publishing house Grosset & Dunlap.
  • B. Samuel J. Kirkwood
    Samuel J. Kirkwood was a 19th-century American politician best known for serving as governor of Iowa and as a U.S. senator during the Civil War era.
  • C. James B. Ricketts
    James B. Ricketts was a Union Army general during the American Civil War, noted for his leadership in several major battles.
  • D. George D. Barnett
    George D. Barnett was an American architect known for designing prominent ecclesiastical and civic buildings in the early 20th century, particularly in St. Louis, Missouri.
  • E. Charles R. Boling
    Charles R. Boling was a prominent supporter and benefactor of the University of Tennessee whose contributions led to the major campus venue Thompson–Boling Arena bearing his name.
  • 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_6a074e5e9fb88190aab63e3d3318b63b completed May 15, 2026, 4:48 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a074f4f3c008190b6483a994b2309cd completed May 15, 2026, 4:52 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a075019f0b48190ae2469b1979e6cce completed May 15, 2026, 4:55 p.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:55 p.m.