Triple

T12590640
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Harvey Cushing E300594 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object Life of Sir William Osler
Life of Sir William Osler is a landmark biographical work by neurosurgeon Harvey Cushing that chronicles the life, career, and enduring influence of the famed physician Sir William Osler.
E993788 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: Life of Sir William Osler | Statement: [Harvey Cushing, notableWork, Life of Sir William Osler]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Life of Sir William Osler
Context triple: [Harvey Cushing, notableWork, Life of Sir William Osler]
  • A. Letters to a Young Physician
    Letters to a Young Physician is a 19th-century medical advice book in which James Jackson offers practical guidance and ethical reflections for early-career doctors.
  • B. Fifty Years of Medicine and Surgery
    Fifty Years of Medicine and Surgery is a historical memoir and professional retrospective by American surgeon Franklin H. Martin, chronicling the evolution of medical and surgical practice over half a century.
  • C. "The Scalpel, The Sword" (biography)
    "The Scalpel, The Sword" is a biography that chronicles the life, medical innovations, and political activism of Canadian surgeon Norman Bethune.
  • D. A Young Doctor's Notebook
    A Young Doctor's Notebook is a semi-autobiographical collection of short stories by Mikhail Bulgakov that chronicles the experiences and moral dilemmas of a young physician working in rural Russia after the Revolution.
  • E. The Lady with the Lamp
    The Lady with the Lamp is the famous nickname of Florence Nightingale, the pioneering 19th-century nurse known for her compassionate care of wounded soldiers and her foundational work in modern nursing.
  • 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: Life of Sir William Osler
Triple: [Harvey Cushing, notableWork, Life of Sir William Osler]
Generated description
Life of Sir William Osler is a landmark biographical work by neurosurgeon Harvey Cushing that chronicles the life, career, and enduring influence of the famed physician Sir William Osler.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Life of Sir William Osler
Target entity description: Life of Sir William Osler is a landmark biographical work by neurosurgeon Harvey Cushing that chronicles the life, career, and enduring influence of the famed physician Sir William Osler.
  • A. Letters to a Young Physician
    Letters to a Young Physician is a 19th-century medical advice book in which James Jackson offers practical guidance and ethical reflections for early-career doctors.
  • B. Fifty Years of Medicine and Surgery
    Fifty Years of Medicine and Surgery is a historical memoir and professional retrospective by American surgeon Franklin H. Martin, chronicling the evolution of medical and surgical practice over half a century.
  • C. "The Scalpel, The Sword" (biography)
    "The Scalpel, The Sword" is a biography that chronicles the life, medical innovations, and political activism of Canadian surgeon Norman Bethune.
  • D. A Young Doctor's Notebook
    A Young Doctor's Notebook is a semi-autobiographical collection of short stories by Mikhail Bulgakov that chronicles the experiences and moral dilemmas of a young physician working in rural Russia after the Revolution.
  • E. The Lady with the Lamp
    The Lady with the Lamp is the famous nickname of Florence Nightingale, the pioneering 19th-century nurse known for her compassionate care of wounded soldiers and her foundational work in modern nursing.
  • 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_69d7bde87b648190bcd0266e9efde098 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d954cc6d3c81908fbb22601c46f3f7 completed April 10, 2026, 7:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f65ec2dac88190bf31bb00f93feb30 completed May 2, 2026, 8:29 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f66308087c81908ab5b5795f255e37 completed May 2, 2026, 8:48 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f663fe2fac8190bb70c8f1b919d657 completed May 2, 2026, 8:52 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:07 p.m.