Triple
T1465535
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Donald Davies |
E27013
|
entity |
| Predicate | fullName |
P16
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Donald Watts Davies |
E27013
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Donald Watts Davies | Statement: [Donald Davies, fullName, Donald Watts Davies]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Donald Watts Davies Context triple: [Donald Davies, fullName, Donald Watts Davies]
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A.
Donald Davies
chosen
Donald Davies was a British computer scientist who pioneered the concept of packet switching, a foundational technology for modern computer networks and the internet.
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B.
Leonard Kleinrock
Leonard Kleinrock is an American computer scientist and Internet pioneer best known for his foundational work on packet-switching theory that underpinned the development of the ARPANET and the modern Internet.
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C.
Ralph Tomlinson
Ralph Tomlinson was an 18th-century English lawyer and poet best known for writing the original lyrics to the popular drinking song "To Anacreon in Heaven," whose melody later became the tune of "The Star-Spangled Banner."
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D.
Vinton Cerf
Vinton Cerf is an American computer scientist widely regarded as one of the "fathers of the Internet" for his co-design of the TCP/IP protocols and fundamental contributions to internet architecture.
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E.
Robert Kahn
Robert Kahn is an American electrical engineer and computer scientist best known as a co-inventor of the TCP/IP protocols that form the foundation of the modern Internet.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69a496d25d6881909dbd84f86d763992 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4c5bb4e288190997c7e8985e9a2bd |
completed | March 1, 2026, 11:03 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ad0e7c8a608190b3ca574c118e89b5 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 5:51 a.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 8:01 p.m.