Triple

T12653496
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject General Advisory Committee E302222 entity
Predicate notableMember P10 FINISHED
Object Cyril S. Smith
Cyril S. Smith was a prominent American metallurgist and materials scientist known for his key role in the Manhattan Project and his influential work on the structure and history of metals.
E1055412 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: Cyril S. Smith | Statement: [General Advisory Committee, notableMember, Cyril S. Smith]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cyril S. Smith
Context triple: [General Advisory Committee, notableMember, Cyril S. Smith]
  • A. Charles Ferguson Smith
    Charles Ferguson Smith was a distinguished United States Army officer and West Point instructor who served in the Mexican–American War and early in the American Civil War.
  • B. Cyril J. Mockridge
    Cyril J. Mockridge was a British-born American film composer and arranger best known for his extensive work scoring Hollywood films for 20th Century Fox during the mid-20th century.
  • C. J. Duncan Smith
    J. Duncan Smith is an American media executive and businessman, known as one of the sons of television broadcasting pioneer Julian Sinclair Smith.
  • D. Raymond J. Smith
    Raymond J. Smith was an American editor, publisher, and co-founder of The Ontario Review, best known as the longtime husband and literary collaborator of author Joyce Carol Oates.
  • E. Robert Weston Smith
    Robert Weston Smith was an influential American disc jockey and radio personality best known for his gravelly voice and larger-than-life on-air persona "Wolfman Jack."
  • 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: Cyril S. Smith
Triple: [General Advisory Committee, notableMember, Cyril S. Smith]
Generated description
Cyril S. Smith was a prominent American metallurgist and materials scientist known for his key role in the Manhattan Project and his influential work on the structure and history of metals.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cyril S. Smith
Target entity description: Cyril S. Smith was a prominent American metallurgist and materials scientist known for his key role in the Manhattan Project and his influential work on the structure and history of metals.
  • A. Charles Ferguson Smith
    Charles Ferguson Smith was a distinguished United States Army officer and West Point instructor who served in the Mexican–American War and early in the American Civil War.
  • B. Cyril J. Mockridge
    Cyril J. Mockridge was a British-born American film composer and arranger best known for his extensive work scoring Hollywood films for 20th Century Fox during the mid-20th century.
  • C. J. Duncan Smith
    J. Duncan Smith is an American media executive and businessman, known as one of the sons of television broadcasting pioneer Julian Sinclair Smith.
  • D. Raymond J. Smith
    Raymond J. Smith was an American editor, publisher, and co-founder of The Ontario Review, best known as the longtime husband and literary collaborator of author Joyce Carol Oates.
  • E. Robert Weston Smith
    Robert Weston Smith was an influential American disc jockey and radio personality best known for his gravelly voice and larger-than-life on-air persona "Wolfman Jack."
  • 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_69d7bded71a88190bb76e2413af9ea66 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d96160730c81909e1aa3efb51bf159 completed April 10, 2026, 8:45 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f79418e26c819088f3aa608d9d65d6 completed May 3, 2026, 6:29 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f79523bf608190addeca563bea132e completed May 3, 2026, 6:34 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f7965cc9f88190acbf232615a9e87b completed May 3, 2026, 6:39 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:18 p.m.