Triple

T1311613
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Thomas Kailath E28003 entity
Predicate doctoralStudent P167 FINISHED
Object Babak Hassibi
Babak Hassibi is an Iranian-American electrical engineer and information theorist known for his contributions to wireless communications, signal processing, and control theory, and for serving as a professor at the California Institute of Technology.
E153029 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: Babak Hassibi | Statement: [Thomas Kailath, doctoralStudent, Babak Hassibi]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Babak Hassibi
Context triple: [Thomas Kailath, doctoralStudent, Babak Hassibi]
  • A. Omid Kordestani
    Omid Kordestani is an Iranian-American business executive best known for senior leadership roles at major tech companies including Google and Twitter.
  • B. Ramin Toloui
    Ramin Toloui is an American economist and former global co-head of emerging markets at PIMCO who has served in senior international economic policy roles in the U.S. government.
  • C. David Bakhtiari
    David Bakhtiari is an American football offensive tackle best known for his Pro Bowl career with the Green Bay Packers in the NFL.
  • D. Farhad Moshiri
    Farhad Moshiri is a British-Iranian businessman and investor best known for his majority ownership stake in Premier League football clubs, most notably Everton.
  • E. Omar Samhan
    Omar Samhan is an American former professional basketball center best known for starring at Saint Mary's College, where he became one of the program's most dominant and recognizable players.
  • 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: Babak Hassibi
Triple: [Thomas Kailath, doctoralStudent, Babak Hassibi]
Generated description
Babak Hassibi is an Iranian-American electrical engineer and information theorist known for his contributions to wireless communications, signal processing, and control theory, and for serving as a professor at the California Institute of Technology.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Babak Hassibi
Target entity description: Babak Hassibi is an Iranian-American electrical engineer and information theorist known for his contributions to wireless communications, signal processing, and control theory, and for serving as a professor at the California Institute of Technology.
  • A. Omid Kordestani
    Omid Kordestani is an Iranian-American business executive best known for senior leadership roles at major tech companies including Google and Twitter.
  • B. Ramin Toloui
    Ramin Toloui is an American economist and former global co-head of emerging markets at PIMCO who has served in senior international economic policy roles in the U.S. government.
  • C. David Bakhtiari
    David Bakhtiari is an American football offensive tackle best known for his Pro Bowl career with the Green Bay Packers in the NFL.
  • D. Farhad Moshiri
    Farhad Moshiri is a British-Iranian businessman and investor best known for his majority ownership stake in Premier League football clubs, most notably Everton.
  • E. Omar Samhan
    Omar Samhan is an American former professional basketball center best known for starring at Saint Mary's College, where he became one of the program's most dominant and recognizable players.
  • 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_69a498532c3481909223b74af2e578df completed March 1, 2026, 7:49 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c1560f888190bdd9107b08395e0b completed March 1, 2026, 10:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acc6255b808190823bc240365ed304 completed March 8, 2026, 12:43 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acc684fb34819097fbb1659032d3c2 completed March 8, 2026, 12:44 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69acc6ec853c8190b60bd2d876605c48 completed March 8, 2026, 12:46 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:55 p.m.