Triple

T1961141
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Gene Amdahl E42388 entity
Predicate doctoralThesis P6 FINISHED
Object A Logical Design of an Intermediate Speed Digital Computer
"A Logical Design of an Intermediate Speed Digital Computer" is Gene Amdahl’s doctoral thesis, presenting an early and influential computer architecture design that helped launch his career in computer engineering.
E219381 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: A Logical Design of an Intermediate Speed Digital Computer | Statement: [Gene Amdahl, doctoralThesis, A Logical Design of an Intermediate Speed Digital Computer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Logical Design of an Intermediate Speed Digital Computer
Context triple: [Gene Amdahl, doctoralThesis, A Logical Design of an Intermediate Speed Digital Computer]
  • A. First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC
    First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC is a seminal 1945 technical report that laid out the stored-program computer architecture that became the foundation for most modern computers.
  • B. Control Program for Microcomputers
    Control Program for Microcomputers is an early operating system widely used on 8-bit microcomputers in the late 1970s and early 1980s, known for influencing the design of later systems like MS-DOS.
  • C. A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits
    A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits is Claude Shannon’s landmark 1937 master’s thesis that founded modern digital circuit design by applying Boolean algebra to relay and switching systems.
  • D. EDVAC
    EDVAC was one of the earliest electronic stored-program computers, pioneering the use of binary arithmetic and influencing the development of modern computer architecture.
  • E. ENIAC project
    The ENIAC project was an early U.S. military-funded effort during World War II to develop one of the first general-purpose electronic digital computers, laying foundational concepts for modern 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: A Logical Design of an Intermediate Speed Digital Computer
Triple: [Gene Amdahl, doctoralThesis, A Logical Design of an Intermediate Speed Digital Computer]
Generated description
"A Logical Design of an Intermediate Speed Digital Computer" is Gene Amdahl’s doctoral thesis, presenting an early and influential computer architecture design that helped launch his career in computer engineering.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: A Logical Design of an Intermediate Speed Digital Computer
Target entity description: "A Logical Design of an Intermediate Speed Digital Computer" is Gene Amdahl’s doctoral thesis, presenting an early and influential computer architecture design that helped launch his career in computer engineering.
  • A. First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC
    First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC is a seminal 1945 technical report that laid out the stored-program computer architecture that became the foundation for most modern computers.
  • B. Control Program for Microcomputers
    Control Program for Microcomputers is an early operating system widely used on 8-bit microcomputers in the late 1970s and early 1980s, known for influencing the design of later systems like MS-DOS.
  • C. A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits
    A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits is Claude Shannon’s landmark 1937 master’s thesis that founded modern digital circuit design by applying Boolean algebra to relay and switching systems.
  • D. EDVAC
    EDVAC was one of the earliest electronic stored-program computers, pioneering the use of binary arithmetic and influencing the development of modern computer architecture.
  • E. ENIAC project
    The ENIAC project was an early U.S. military-funded effort during World War II to develop one of the first general-purpose electronic digital computers, laying foundational concepts for modern 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_69a8870eea088190a38781990812a9bc completed March 4, 2026, 7:25 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abb380bfc08190ae80f8e6570494b8 completed March 7, 2026, 5:11 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69adfbcea048819091d705095f0d3f68 completed March 8, 2026, 10:44 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adfc8efb0c81908bce5a4a13359801 completed March 8, 2026, 10:47 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adfd8115d481909716e11b943cbf61 completed March 8, 2026, 10:51 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:36 p.m.