Triple

T1844499
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Gerrit Blaauw E41251 entity
Predicate doctoralAdvisor P167 FINISHED
Object Howard Aiken
Howard Aiken was an American engineer and computing pioneer best known for designing the IBM Harvard Mark I, one of the earliest large-scale automatic digital computers.
 E205843 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: Howard Aiken | Statement: [Gerrit Blaauw, doctoralAdvisor, Howard Aiken]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Howard Aiken
Context triple: [Gerrit Blaauw, doctoralAdvisor, Howard Aiken]
  • A. John W. Mauchly
    John W. Mauchly was an American physicist and computer engineer best known as the co-inventor of the ENIAC, one of the earliest general-purpose electronic digital computers.
  • B. J. Presper Eckert
    J. Presper Eckert was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer best known as the co-inventor of ENIAC, one of the earliest general-purpose electronic digital computers.
  • C. Vannevar Bush
    American electrical engineer and science administrator (1890~1974)
  • D. John Backus
    John Backus was an American computer scientist best known for leading the development of the Fortran programming language and contributing foundational work to programming language design and formal notation.
  • E. Gene Amdahl
    Gene Amdahl was an American computer architect and high-tech entrepreneur best known for his pioneering work on mainframe computers and for formulating Amdahl's Law in parallel computing.
  • 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: Howard Aiken
Triple: [Gerrit Blaauw, doctoralAdvisor, Howard Aiken]
Generated description
Howard Aiken was an American engineer and computing pioneer best known for designing the IBM Harvard Mark I, one of the earliest large-scale automatic digital computers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Howard Aiken
Target entity description: Howard Aiken was an American engineer and computing pioneer best known for designing the IBM Harvard Mark I, one of the earliest large-scale automatic digital computers.
  • A. John W. Mauchly
    John W. Mauchly was an American physicist and computer engineer best known as the co-inventor of the ENIAC, one of the earliest general-purpose electronic digital computers.
  • B. J. Presper Eckert
    J. Presper Eckert was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer best known as the co-inventor of ENIAC, one of the earliest general-purpose electronic digital computers.
  • C. Vannevar Bush
    American electrical engineer and science administrator (1890~1974)
  • D. John Backus
    John Backus was an American computer scientist best known for leading the development of the Fortran programming language and contributing foundational work to programming language design and formal notation.
  • E. Gene Amdahl
    Gene Amdahl was an American computer architect and high-tech entrepreneur best known for his pioneering work on mainframe computers and for formulating Amdahl's Law in parallel computing.
  • 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_69a88648cd44819093303206d96d76ad completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb04fe9d481909b5c1973d3f9b92d completed March 7, 2026, 4:57 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adc9c070548190af52d3feaa3aead2 completed March 8, 2026, 7:10 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adcb1466788190bdcb50107d838f83 completed March 8, 2026, 7:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adcbf5b0b881909d43c748034481f4 completed March 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:33 p.m.