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]
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.