Triple

T14694
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lemelson-MIT Prize E293 entity
Predicate notableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Ray Kurzweil
Ray Kurzweil is an American inventor, futurist, and author known for his pioneering work in fields such as optical character recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, and artificial intelligence, as well as his predictions about technological singularity.
 E26127 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: Ray Kurzweil | Statement: [Lemelson-MIT Prize, notableRecipient, Ray Kurzweil]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ray Kurzweil
Context triple: [Lemelson-MIT Prize, notableRecipient, Ray Kurzweil]
  • A. Douglas Engelbart
    Douglas Engelbart was an American engineer and inventor best known for pioneering the computer mouse and groundbreaking concepts in interactive computing and hypertext that helped shape modern personal computing.
  • B. Brewster Kahle
    Brewster Kahle is an American computer engineer, internet entrepreneur, and digital librarian best known as the founder of the Internet Archive, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving and providing universal access to knowledge.
  • C. Dean Kamen
    Dean Kamen is an American inventor and entrepreneur best known for creating the Segway and numerous medical technologies, and for founding the FIRST robotics competition to inspire young people in science and engineering.
  • D. Sergey Brin
    Sergey Brin is a computer scientist and internet entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Google.
  • E. Peter Thiel
    Peter Thiel is a German-American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist best known as a co-founder of PayPal and an early investor in Facebook.
  • 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: Ray Kurzweil
Triple: [Lemelson-MIT Prize, notableRecipient, Ray Kurzweil]
Generated description
Ray Kurzweil is an American inventor, futurist, and author known for his pioneering work in fields such as optical character recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, and artificial intelligence, as well as his predictions about technological singularity.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ray Kurzweil
Target entity description: Ray Kurzweil is an American inventor, futurist, and author known for his pioneering work in fields such as optical character recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, and artificial intelligence, as well as his predictions about technological singularity.
  • A. Douglas Engelbart
    Douglas Engelbart was an American engineer and inventor best known for pioneering the computer mouse and groundbreaking concepts in interactive computing and hypertext that helped shape modern personal computing.
  • B. Brewster Kahle
    Brewster Kahle is an American computer engineer, internet entrepreneur, and digital librarian best known as the founder of the Internet Archive, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving and providing universal access to knowledge.
  • C. Dean Kamen
    Dean Kamen is an American inventor and entrepreneur best known for creating the Segway and numerous medical technologies, and for founding the FIRST robotics competition to inspire young people in science and engineering.
  • D. Sergey Brin
    Sergey Brin is a computer scientist and internet entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Google.
  • E. Peter Thiel
    Peter Thiel is a German-American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and political activist best known as a co-founder of PayPal and an early investor in Facebook.
  • 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_69a23d7ad88c8190bffe8ab091d86642 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 12:57 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2400257208190b3cd87ad2a06c18f completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3280cebb48190bffad33be40dc175 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 5:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3286a10a081909ff6a27df20a0f8e completed Feb. 28, 2026, 5:39 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a32b0b53488190a009ab2ebf362e66 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 5:51 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:02 a.m.