Triple

T1661
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Edison Medal E31 entity
Predicate hasRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object 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.
E9976 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: Nick Holonyak Jr. | Statement: [Edison Medal, hasRecipient, Nick Holonyak Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nick Holonyak Jr.
Context triple: [Edison Medal, hasRecipient, Nick Holonyak Jr.]
  • A. William Shockley
    William Shockley was an American physicist and co-inventor of the transistor whose work helped launch the field of solid-state electronics and earned him a share of the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics.
  • B. Robert N. Noyce
    Robert N. Noyce was an American physicist, co-inventor of the integrated circuit, and co-founder of Intel Corporation, often called the "Mayor of Silicon Valley" for his pivotal role in the semiconductor industry.
  • C. Jerome H. Lemelson
    Jerome H. Lemelson was a prolific American inventor and patent holder known for his numerous innovations across diverse technological fields and for endowing major awards that support invention and entrepreneurship.
  • D. John Bardeen
    John Bardeen was an American physicist and electrical engineer, uniquely renowned for being the only person to win the Nobel Prize in Physics twice for his work on the transistor and superconductivity.
  • E. Gordon E. Moore
    Gordon E. Moore was an American engineer, co-founder of Intel Corporation, and originator of Moore’s Law, which predicted the exponential growth of computing power.
  • 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: Nick Holonyak Jr.
Triple: [Edison Medal, hasRecipient, Nick Holonyak Jr.]
Generated description
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.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nick Holonyak Jr.
Target entity description: 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.
  • A. William Shockley
    William Shockley was an American physicist and co-inventor of the transistor whose work helped launch the field of solid-state electronics and earned him a share of the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics.
  • B. Robert N. Noyce
    Robert N. Noyce was an American physicist, co-inventor of the integrated circuit, and co-founder of Intel Corporation, often called the "Mayor of Silicon Valley" for his pivotal role in the semiconductor industry.
  • C. Jerome H. Lemelson
    Jerome H. Lemelson was a prolific American inventor and patent holder known for his numerous innovations across diverse technological fields and for endowing major awards that support invention and entrepreneurship.
  • D. John Bardeen
    John Bardeen was an American physicist and electrical engineer, uniquely renowned for being the only person to win the Nobel Prize in Physics twice for his work on the transistor and superconductivity.
  • E. Gordon E. Moore
    Gordon E. Moore was an American engineer, co-founder of Intel Corporation, and originator of Moore’s Law, which predicted the exponential growth of computing power.
  • 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_69a26c120b98819087a09540c2a57366 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 4:16 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a26cf320908190a9c8b23e9cd9b5bd completed Feb. 28, 2026, 4:20 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a26e202e9c81909e0cd66a10314a76 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 4:25 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 27, 2026, 11:36 p.m.