Triple
T161877
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Frederick Banting |
E3304
|
entity |
| Predicate | collaboratedWith |
P435
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Charles Best
Charles Best was a Canadian physiologist best known for co-discovering insulin alongside Frederick Banting, a breakthrough that revolutionized the treatment of diabetes.
|
E20379
|
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: Charles Best | Statement: [Frederick Banting, collaboratedWith, Charles Best]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Best Context triple: [Frederick Banting, collaboratedWith, Charles Best]
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A.
Frederick Banting
Frederick Banting was a Canadian medical scientist and physician best known for co-discovering insulin, a breakthrough that revolutionized the treatment of diabetes and earned him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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B.
John James Rickard Macleod
John James Rickard Macleod was a Scottish physiologist and Nobel Prize–winning co-discoverer of insulin whose work fundamentally transformed the treatment of diabetes.
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C.
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins was an English biochemist and Nobel laureate renowned for discovering essential nutrients later known as vitamins and for pioneering the field of nutritional biochemistry.
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D.
Emil Theodor Kocher
Emil Theodor Kocher was a Swiss surgeon and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in thyroid surgery and surgical techniques.
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E.
Arthur Geoffrey Walker
Arthur Geoffrey Walker was a British mathematician and physicist best known for his foundational contributions to relativistic cosmology, particularly the development of the Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker (FLRW) metric.
- 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: Charles Best Triple: [Frederick Banting, collaboratedWith, Charles Best]
Generated description
Charles Best was a Canadian physiologist best known for co-discovering insulin alongside Frederick Banting, a breakthrough that revolutionized the treatment of diabetes.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Best Target entity description: Charles Best was a Canadian physiologist best known for co-discovering insulin alongside Frederick Banting, a breakthrough that revolutionized the treatment of diabetes.
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A.
Frederick Banting
Frederick Banting was a Canadian medical scientist and physician best known for co-discovering insulin, a breakthrough that revolutionized the treatment of diabetes and earned him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
-
B.
John James Rickard Macleod
John James Rickard Macleod was a Scottish physiologist and Nobel Prize–winning co-discoverer of insulin whose work fundamentally transformed the treatment of diabetes.
-
C.
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins
Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins was an English biochemist and Nobel laureate renowned for discovering essential nutrients later known as vitamins and for pioneering the field of nutritional biochemistry.
-
D.
Emil Theodor Kocher
Emil Theodor Kocher was a Swiss surgeon and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in thyroid surgery and surgical techniques.
-
E.
Arthur Geoffrey Walker
Arthur Geoffrey Walker was a British mathematician and physicist best known for his foundational contributions to relativistic cosmology, particularly the development of the Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker (FLRW) metric.
- 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_69a2527757ec819090b8becb2cf1a862 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 2:27 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a2585877648190a2ec320182a69343 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 2:52 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a2db53aaf081909577b743e3660e5c |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 12:10 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69a2dbc0d1a881908d47bb4ebe2e3a26 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 12:12 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69a2dc307978819091019dff30f84e57 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 12:14 p.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:31 a.m.