Triple

T1646
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Edison Medal E31 entity
Predicate hasRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Michael I. Pupin
Michael I. Pupin was a Serbian-American physicist and inventor known for his pioneering work in telecommunications and long-distance telephone transmission.
E8093 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: Michael I. Pupin | Statement: [Edison Medal, hasRecipient, Michael I. Pupin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michael I. Pupin
Context triple: [Edison Medal, hasRecipient, Michael I. Pupin]
  • A. Nikola Tesla
    Nikola Tesla was a pioneering Serbian-American inventor and electrical engineer best known for his contributions to alternating current (AC) power systems and numerous innovations in electromagnetism.
  • B. Harold Stephen Black
    Harold Stephen Black was an American electrical engineer best known for inventing the negative feedback amplifier, a breakthrough that revolutionized electronics and communications.
  • C. Edwin H. Armstrong
    Edwin H. Armstrong was a pioneering American electrical engineer and inventor best known for developing frequency modulation (FM) radio and several fundamental radio technologies.
  • D. George Westinghouse
    George Westinghouse was an American inventor and industrialist best known for pioneering railway air brakes and promoting alternating current (AC) power systems.
  • E. Harold Hazen
    Harold Hazen was an American electrical engineer and MIT professor known for his pioneering work in control systems and his role in developing early analog computing devices.
  • 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: Michael I. Pupin
Triple: [Edison Medal, hasRecipient, Michael I. Pupin]
Generated description
Michael I. Pupin was a Serbian-American physicist and inventor known for his pioneering work in telecommunications and long-distance telephone transmission.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Michael I. Pupin
Target entity description: Michael I. Pupin was a Serbian-American physicist and inventor known for his pioneering work in telecommunications and long-distance telephone transmission.
  • A. Nikola Tesla
    Nikola Tesla was a pioneering Serbian-American inventor and electrical engineer best known for his contributions to alternating current (AC) power systems and numerous innovations in electromagnetism.
  • B. Harold Stephen Black
    Harold Stephen Black was an American electrical engineer best known for inventing the negative feedback amplifier, a breakthrough that revolutionized electronics and communications.
  • C. Edwin H. Armstrong
    Edwin H. Armstrong was a pioneering American electrical engineer and inventor best known for developing frequency modulation (FM) radio and several fundamental radio technologies.
  • D. George Westinghouse
    George Westinghouse was an American inventor and industrialist best known for pioneering railway air brakes and promoting alternating current (AC) power systems.
  • E. Harold Hazen
    Harold Hazen was an American electrical engineer and MIT professor known for his pioneering work in control systems and his role in developing early analog computing devices.
  • 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_69a22a285828819081a58308fb963df1 completed Feb. 27, 2026, 11:35 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a232e673a881909276dbf9c37bbff6 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 12:12 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a262364cf48190b390bab67cee9312 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:34 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a262e524e88190854d3585d6694bc0 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:37 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a26357a9d08190972bfc596be2baac completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:39 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 27, 2026, 11:36 p.m.