Triple

T1655
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Edison Medal E31 entity
Predicate hasRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Ernst Alexanderson
Ernst Alexanderson was a Swedish-American electrical engineer and pioneer in radio and television technology, best known for developing early high-frequency alternators used in long-distance radio communication.
E11555 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: Ernst Alexanderson | Statement: [Edison Medal, hasRecipient, Ernst Alexanderson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ernst Alexanderson
Context triple: [Edison Medal, hasRecipient, Ernst Alexanderson]
  • A. Charles Proteus Steinmetz
    Charles Proteus Steinmetz was a pioneering German-American electrical engineer and mathematician whose work on alternating current (AC) systems and electrical theory greatly advanced modern power engineering.
  • B. Arthur E. Kennelly
    Arthur E. Kennelly was a prominent electrical engineer and physicist known for his pioneering work in alternating current theory and radio science.
  • C. 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.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Lee de Forest
    Lee de Forest was an American inventor and radio pioneer best known for creating the Audion vacuum tube, a key development in early electronics and wireless communication.
  • 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: Ernst Alexanderson
Triple: [Edison Medal, hasRecipient, Ernst Alexanderson]
Generated description
Ernst Alexanderson was a Swedish-American electrical engineer and pioneer in radio and television technology, best known for developing early high-frequency alternators used in long-distance radio communication.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ernst Alexanderson
Target entity description: Ernst Alexanderson was a Swedish-American electrical engineer and pioneer in radio and television technology, best known for developing early high-frequency alternators used in long-distance radio communication.
  • A. Charles Proteus Steinmetz
    Charles Proteus Steinmetz was a pioneering German-American electrical engineer and mathematician whose work on alternating current (AC) systems and electrical theory greatly advanced modern power engineering.
  • B. Arthur E. Kennelly
    Arthur E. Kennelly was a prominent electrical engineer and physicist known for his pioneering work in alternating current theory and radio science.
  • C. 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.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Lee de Forest
    Lee de Forest was an American inventor and radio pioneer best known for creating the Audion vacuum tube, a key development in early electronics and wireless communication.
  • 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_69a27bfa1fdc8190ba22f503585051d7 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 5:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a27c5c994c8190857a0f3d8829d249 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a27e688cb88190a9ab0e5422c0d392 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 5:34 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 27, 2026, 11:36 p.m.