Triple
T1378019
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Luis Alvarez |
E29268
|
entity |
| Predicate | coAuthor |
P398
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Walter Alvarez
Walter Alvarez is an American geologist best known for proposing the asteroid impact theory that explains the mass extinction event which wiped out the dinosaurs.
|
E158808
|
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: Walter Alvarez | Statement: [Luis Alvarez, coAuthor, Walter Alvarez]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Alvarez Context triple: [Luis Alvarez, coAuthor, Walter Alvarez]
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A.
Luis Alvarez
Luis Alvarez was an American experimental physicist and Nobel laureate known for his work on radar, the Manhattan Project, and the discovery of numerous particle resonances.
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B.
David Alan Stevenson
David Alan Stevenson was a prominent Scottish civil engineer and lighthouse designer from the famous Stevenson family, responsible for many lighthouses around the Scottish coast in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
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C.
Archie Marshek
Archie Marshek was an American film editor known for his work during Hollywood’s early sound era, including editing the 1932 thriller "The Most Dangerous Game."
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D.
Beno Gutenberg
Beno Gutenberg was a German seismologist whose pioneering work in measuring and understanding earthquakes, including co-developing the Richter magnitude scale, helped lay the foundations of modern seismology.
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E.
J. Tuzo Wilson
J. Tuzo Wilson was a pioneering Canadian geophysicist whose work on plate tectonics and transform faults fundamentally reshaped modern understanding of Earth's dynamic crust.
- 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: Walter Alvarez Triple: [Luis Alvarez, coAuthor, Walter Alvarez]
Generated description
Walter Alvarez is an American geologist best known for proposing the asteroid impact theory that explains the mass extinction event which wiped out the dinosaurs.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter Alvarez Target entity description: Walter Alvarez is an American geologist best known for proposing the asteroid impact theory that explains the mass extinction event which wiped out the dinosaurs.
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A.
Luis Alvarez
Luis Alvarez was an American experimental physicist and Nobel laureate known for his work on radar, the Manhattan Project, and the discovery of numerous particle resonances.
-
B.
David Alan Stevenson
David Alan Stevenson was a prominent Scottish civil engineer and lighthouse designer from the famous Stevenson family, responsible for many lighthouses around the Scottish coast in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
-
C.
Archie Marshek
Archie Marshek was an American film editor known for his work during Hollywood’s early sound era, including editing the 1932 thriller "The Most Dangerous Game."
-
D.
Beno Gutenberg
Beno Gutenberg was a German seismologist whose pioneering work in measuring and understanding earthquakes, including co-developing the Richter magnitude scale, helped lay the foundations of modern seismology.
-
E.
J. Tuzo Wilson
J. Tuzo Wilson was a pioneering Canadian geophysicist whose work on plate tectonics and transform faults fundamentally reshaped modern understanding of Earth's dynamic crust.
- 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_69a498d883a48190bfdca525296ef7ee |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:51 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4c3173548819082aec7c1af9c577c |
completed | March 1, 2026, 10:52 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69acd488698481909411c004aadfcaec |
completed | March 8, 2026, 1:44 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69acd625592481908c688802ce8381ee |
completed | March 8, 2026, 1:51 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69acd6daf83881909cf5a4105ebf14a5 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 1:54 a.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:59 p.m.