Triple
T18347849
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Jerome Y. Lettvin |
E439588
|
entity |
| Predicate | authorOf |
P4244
|
FINISHED |
| Object | What the frog’s eye tells the frog’s brain |
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NE NERFINISHED |
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: What the frog’s eye tells the frog’s brain | Statement: [Jerome Y. Lettvin, authorOf, What the frog’s eye tells the frog’s brain]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: What the frog’s eye tells the frog’s brain Context triple: [Jerome Y. Lettvin, authorOf, What the frog’s eye tells the frog’s brain]
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A.
What the frog’s eye tells the frog’s brain
chosen
"What the frog’s eye tells the frog’s brain" is a landmark 1959 neuroscience paper that revealed how the frog’s visual system extracts specific features from the environment, helping to found the field of sensory information processing.
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B.
“Eye, Brain, and Vision”
“Eye, Brain, and Vision” is a popular science book by neurophysiologist David H. Hubel that explains how the visual system works, from the eye’s structure to the brain’s processing of visual information.
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C.
Vision: A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information
Vision: A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information is a seminal 1982 book by David Marr that laid the foundations of computational neuroscience and modern theories of visual perception.
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D.
Biophysics of Computation: Information Processing in Single Neurons
Biophysics of Computation: Information Processing in Single Neurons is a seminal book that rigorously explains how individual neurons perform complex information processing using biophysical and computational principles.
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E.
The Computational Brain
The Computational Brain is an influential book that explores how principles of computation and neural networks can explain brain function and cognition.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (2 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_69d8b9175fec8190af865699b4e64d8c |
completed | April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e514f594f88190a683e6224e091593 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 5:46 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:37 a.m.