Triple
T18829676
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Colin Reese |
E460489
|
entity |
| Predicate | supervisedDoctoralResearchOf |
P16021
|
FINISHED |
| Object | John Sulston |
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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: John Sulston | Statement: [Colin Reese, supervisedDoctoralResearchOf, John Sulston]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Sulston Context triple: [Colin Reese, supervisedDoctoralResearchOf, John Sulston]
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A.
John Sulston
chosen
John Sulston was a British biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the genetics and cell lineage of the nematode C. elegans and for his leadership in the Human Genome Project.
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B.
Sydney Brenner
Sydney Brenner was a pioneering South African biologist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for his foundational work in molecular biology and the use of C. elegans as a model organism.
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C.
Oliver Smithies
Oliver Smithies was a British-born American geneticist and Nobel laureate renowned for pioneering gene targeting techniques that revolutionized the creation of genetically modified organisms for biomedical research.
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D.
Sir Tim Hunt
Sir Tim Hunt is a British biochemist and Nobel Prize laureate recognized for his discovery of key regulators of the cell cycle.
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E.
John B. Gurdon
John B. Gurdon is a British developmental biologist renowned for his pioneering work in nuclear reprogramming and cloning, which demonstrated that mature cells can be reverted to an embryonic state.
- 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_69d8dcf94c288190a06dea029ae4b223 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e5a9981be88190b709c0e72ad3f7e6 |
completed | April 20, 2026, 4:20 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:56 a.m.