Triple

T1933836
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Carl Woese E41403 entity
Predicate hasAcademicAdvisor P167 FINISHED
Object Ernest C. Pollard
Ernest C. Pollard was a British-born American physicist and biophysicist known for his work in nuclear physics and for mentoring influential scientists, including microbiologist Carl Woese.
E567803 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: Ernest C. Pollard | Statement: [Carl Woese, hasAcademicAdvisor, Ernest C. Pollard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ernest C. Pollard
Context triple: [Carl Woese, hasAcademicAdvisor, Ernest C. Pollard]
  • A. Edmund G. Ross
    Edmund G. Ross was a 19th-century U.S. senator from Kansas best known for casting the decisive vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, an act later celebrated in John F. Kennedy’s "Profiles in Courage."
  • B. George T. Brown
    George T. Brown was an American businessman best known as a founder of the Brown & Williamson tobacco company, which became one of the major U.S. cigarette manufacturers.
  • C. Charles D. Norton
    Charles D. Norton was an American figure notable for helping establish the American Cancer Society, a leading nonprofit organization dedicated to cancer research and patient support.
  • D. Francis W. Sears
    Francis W. Sears was an American physicist and influential physics educator known for his widely used textbooks and contributions to physics teaching.
  • E. John A. Pearson
    John A. Pearson was a prominent early 20th-century Canadian architect known for designing major public and institutional buildings.
  • 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: Ernest C. Pollard
Triple: [Carl Woese, hasAcademicAdvisor, Ernest C. Pollard]
Generated description
Ernest C. Pollard was a British-born American physicist and biophysicist known for his work in nuclear physics and for mentoring influential scientists, including microbiologist Carl Woese.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ernest C. Pollard
Target entity description: Ernest C. Pollard was a British-born American physicist and biophysicist known for his work in nuclear physics and for mentoring influential scientists, including microbiologist Carl Woese.
  • A. Edmund G. Ross
    Edmund G. Ross was a 19th-century U.S. senator from Kansas best known for casting the decisive vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, an act later celebrated in John F. Kennedy’s "Profiles in Courage."
  • B. George T. Brown
    George T. Brown was an American businessman best known as a founder of the Brown & Williamson tobacco company, which became one of the major U.S. cigarette manufacturers.
  • C. Charles D. Norton
    Charles D. Norton was an American figure notable for helping establish the American Cancer Society, a leading nonprofit organization dedicated to cancer research and patient support.
  • D. Francis W. Sears
    Francis W. Sears was an American physicist and influential physics educator known for his widely used textbooks and contributions to physics teaching.
  • E. John A. Pearson
    John A. Pearson was a prominent early 20th-century Canadian architect known for designing major public and institutional buildings.
  • 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_69a88649b24c819080047f26b6db2ded completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb29b51408190afb2f918814e68c7 completed March 7, 2026, 5:07 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c124d359ec819086420b7e00b8d630 completed March 23, 2026, 11:32 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c12605b8148190967526967a8a1231 completed March 23, 2026, 11:37 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c126c641448190a826c213e8ab05af completed March 23, 2026, 11:40 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:35 p.m.