Triple

T1470271
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject IEEE James Clerk Maxwell Award E27118 entity
Predicate notableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Federico Capasso
Federico Capasso is an Italian-American physicist renowned for pioneering work in quantum electronics and nanophotonics, including the invention of the quantum cascade laser.
 E168669 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: Federico Capasso | Statement: [IEEE James Clerk Maxwell Award, notableRecipient, Federico Capasso]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Federico Capasso
Context triple: [IEEE James Clerk Maxwell Award, notableRecipient, Federico Capasso]
  • A. Phaedon Avouris
    Phaedon Avouris is a Greek-American physicist and nanoscientist renowned for his pioneering research in carbon nanotubes, graphene, and nanoelectronics.
  • B. Eli Yablonovitch
    Eli Yablonovitch is an American physicist and engineer renowned as a pioneer of photonic crystals and a leading figure in the field of photonics and optoelectronics.
  • C. Nick Holonyak Jr.
    Nick Holonyak Jr. was an American engineer and inventor best known for creating the first practical visible-spectrum LED, earning him recognition as a pioneer in semiconductor lighting technology.
  • D. Michael Grätzel
    Michael Grätzel is a Swiss chemist best known for inventing dye-sensitized solar cells, a breakthrough in low-cost, efficient solar energy technology.
  • E. Chad A. Mirkin
    Chad A. Mirkin is an American chemist and nanoscientist renowned for pioneering work in nanoparticle-based biodiagnostics and materials, including the development of spherical nucleic acids and dip-pen nanolithography.
  • 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: Federico Capasso
Triple: [IEEE James Clerk Maxwell Award, notableRecipient, Federico Capasso]
Generated description
Federico Capasso is an Italian-American physicist renowned for pioneering work in quantum electronics and nanophotonics, including the invention of the quantum cascade laser.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Federico Capasso
Target entity description: Federico Capasso is an Italian-American physicist renowned for pioneering work in quantum electronics and nanophotonics, including the invention of the quantum cascade laser.
  • A. Phaedon Avouris
    Phaedon Avouris is a Greek-American physicist and nanoscientist renowned for his pioneering research in carbon nanotubes, graphene, and nanoelectronics.
  • B. Eli Yablonovitch
    Eli Yablonovitch is an American physicist and engineer renowned as a pioneer of photonic crystals and a leading figure in the field of photonics and optoelectronics.
  • C. Nick Holonyak Jr.
    Nick Holonyak Jr. was an American engineer and inventor best known for creating the first practical visible-spectrum LED, earning him recognition as a pioneer in semiconductor lighting technology.
  • D. Michael Grätzel
    Michael Grätzel is a Swiss chemist best known for inventing dye-sensitized solar cells, a breakthrough in low-cost, efficient solar energy technology.
  • E. Chad A. Mirkin
    Chad A. Mirkin is an American chemist and nanoscientist renowned for pioneering work in nanoparticle-based biodiagnostics and materials, including the development of spherical nucleic acids and dip-pen nanolithography.
  • 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_69a496d25d6881909dbd84f86d763992 completed March 1, 2026, 7:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c5d9dd4c8190ba840a9255cd1293 completed March 1, 2026, 11:03 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ad15a74fbc8190b53511713032dc63 completed March 8, 2026, 6:22 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ad162d7d08819085108fa5bb33f40f completed March 8, 2026, 6:24 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ad16a5c76c8190a0bb3ccf5557b1b0 completed March 8, 2026, 6:26 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 8:01 p.m.