Triple
T16794880
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Beckman Coulter |
E408206
|
entity |
| Predicate | foundedBy |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Arnold O. Beckman |
E73549
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Arnold O. Beckman | Statement: [Beckman Coulter, foundedBy, Arnold O. Beckman]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Arnold O. Beckman Context triple: [Beckman Coulter, foundedBy, Arnold O. Beckman]
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A.
Arnold O. Beckman
chosen
Arnold O. Beckman was an American chemist, inventor, and philanthropist best known for developing the pH meter and founding Beckman Instruments, which significantly advanced scientific instrumentation.
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B.
Charles Sprague Smith
Charles Sprague Smith was an American educator and social reformer best known for promoting public access to culture and the arts, including helping to establish influential institutions in New York City.
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C.
Herman Wiardi Beckman
Herman Wiardi Beckman was a Dutch social-democratic politician and intellectual known for his resistance to Nazism and his influence on the Dutch Labour Party’s ideological development.
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D.
Frederick Seitz
Frederick Seitz was an influential American physicist and solid-state physics pioneer who served as president of the National Academy of Sciences and Rockefeller University.
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E.
Melvin Wydler
Melvin Wydler was a U.S. Congressman whose legislative work on technology and innovation policy led to a federal law being named in his honor.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69d88393905081908d00a86b99996ac8 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 4:58 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e3b2a96d888190a9876c3784bb7f95 |
completed | April 18, 2026, 4:34 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a00ab0e1e9c8190bb2ef0825b25f6e5 |
completed | May 10, 2026, 3:58 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:22 a.m.