Triple

T16659956
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Keary M. Engle E404828 entity
Predicate doctoralAdvisor P167 FINISHED
Object J. Du Bois
J. Du Bois is an American chemist known for his contributions to synthetic organic chemistry, particularly in the development of novel C–H bond functionalization methods.
E1226529 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: J. Du Bois | Statement: [Keary M. Engle, doctoralAdvisor, J. Du Bois]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J. Du Bois
Context triple: [Keary M. Engle, doctoralAdvisor, J. Du Bois]
  • A. W. E. B. Du Bois
    W. E. B. Du Bois was an influential African American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, and co-founder of the NAACP, renowned for his pioneering work on race and inequality.
  • B. Josiah E. DuBois Jr.
    Josiah E. DuBois Jr. was a U.S. Treasury Department lawyer and key Holocaust whistleblower whose efforts helped expose government inaction and led to the rescue of tens of thousands of Jews during World War II.
  • C. William Du Bois Duddell
    William Du Bois Duddell was a British physicist and electrical engineer best known for his pioneering work on electrical oscillations and the invention of the "singing arc."
  • D. Carter G. Woodson
    Carter G. Woodson was an American historian, educator, and author known as the "Father of Black History" for founding Negro History Week, the precursor to Black History Month.
  • E. William Monroe Trotter
    William Monroe Trotter was an influential African American newspaper editor and civil rights activist who fiercely opposed racial segregation and challenged Booker T. Washington’s accommodationist approach in the early 20th century.
  • 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: J. Du Bois
Triple: [Keary M. Engle, doctoralAdvisor, J. Du Bois]
Generated description
J. Du Bois is an American chemist known for his contributions to synthetic organic chemistry, particularly in the development of novel C–H bond functionalization methods.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J. Du Bois
Target entity description: J. Du Bois is an American chemist known for his contributions to synthetic organic chemistry, particularly in the development of novel C–H bond functionalization methods.
  • A. W. E. B. Du Bois
    W. E. B. Du Bois was an influential African American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, and co-founder of the NAACP, renowned for his pioneering work on race and inequality.
  • B. Josiah E. DuBois Jr.
    Josiah E. DuBois Jr. was a U.S. Treasury Department lawyer and key Holocaust whistleblower whose efforts helped expose government inaction and led to the rescue of tens of thousands of Jews during World War II.
  • C. William Du Bois Duddell
    William Du Bois Duddell was a British physicist and electrical engineer best known for his pioneering work on electrical oscillations and the invention of the "singing arc."
  • D. Carter G. Woodson
    Carter G. Woodson was an American historian, educator, and author known as the "Father of Black History" for founding Negro History Week, the precursor to Black History Month.
  • E. William Monroe Trotter
    William Monroe Trotter was an influential African American newspaper editor and civil rights activist who fiercely opposed racial segregation and challenged Booker T. Washington’s accommodationist approach in the early 20th century.
  • 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_69d8838b5fbc81908c6575c132b82e80 completed April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e37bfe0fb081909f2de38df0ed59d7 completed April 18, 2026, 12:41 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0084ce7cf0819091e7a4de2cc010ea completed May 10, 2026, 1:14 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a00862fe04481908bc114001357aea9 completed May 10, 2026, 1:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a00879d9f948190bdf40ff7be2505ff completed May 10, 2026, 1:26 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:18 a.m.