Triple

T19906663
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject finite element method E478434 entity
Predicate notableContributor P304 FINISHED
Object Ray W. Clough
Ray W. Clough was an American civil engineer and academic widely recognized as a pioneer of the finite element method and a leading figure in structural dynamics and earthquake engineering.
E1402737 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: Ray W. Clough | Statement: [finite element method, notableContributor, Ray W. Clough]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ray W. Clough
Context triple: [finite element method, notableContributor, Ray W. Clough]
  • A. G. Wayne Clough
    G. Wayne Clough is an American civil engineer and academic leader best known for serving as president of the Georgia Institute of Technology and as the 12th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
  • B. Clem Haskins
    Clem Haskins is an American former professional basketball player and college coach best known for his standout career at Western Kentucky, his NBA tenure in the late 1960s and 1970s, and his successful run as head coach of the University of Minnesota men's basketball team.
  • C. Charles W. Dressen
    Charles W. Dressen was an American Major League Baseball manager and former infielder best known for managing the Brooklyn Dodgers in the early 1950s.
  • D. Curtis Jadwin
    Curtis Jadwin is the ambitious grain speculator who serves as the central figure in Frank Norris’s novel "The Pit: A Story of Chicago," embodying the risks and obsessions of early 20th-century commodities trading.
  • E. Robert McGuire
    Robert McGuire is a musician best known for performing the opening theme of the American sitcom "The Drew Carey Show."
  • 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: Ray W. Clough
Triple: [finite element method, notableContributor, Ray W. Clough]
Generated description
Ray W. Clough was an American civil engineer and academic widely recognized as a pioneer of the finite element method and a leading figure in structural dynamics and earthquake engineering.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ray W. Clough
Target entity description: Ray W. Clough was an American civil engineer and academic widely recognized as a pioneer of the finite element method and a leading figure in structural dynamics and earthquake engineering.
  • A. G. Wayne Clough
    G. Wayne Clough is an American civil engineer and academic leader best known for serving as president of the Georgia Institute of Technology and as the 12th Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
  • B. Clem Haskins
    Clem Haskins is an American former professional basketball player and college coach best known for his standout career at Western Kentucky, his NBA tenure in the late 1960s and 1970s, and his successful run as head coach of the University of Minnesota men's basketball team.
  • C. Charles W. Dressen
    Charles W. Dressen was an American Major League Baseball manager and former infielder best known for managing the Brooklyn Dodgers in the early 1950s.
  • D. Curtis Jadwin
    Curtis Jadwin is the ambitious grain speculator who serves as the central figure in Frank Norris’s novel "The Pit: A Story of Chicago," embodying the risks and obsessions of early 20th-century commodities trading.
  • E. Robert McGuire
    Robert McGuire is a musician best known for performing the opening theme of the American sitcom "The Drew Carey Show."
  • 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_69d8e520682081909892916424699bd5 completed April 10, 2026, 11:55 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6598cc5108190bca2a47c9f8ef70f completed April 20, 2026, 4:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a07f6dbed3c8190abba458865896766 completed May 16, 2026, 4:47 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a07f83250fc8190bdcf86f1981e47f6 completed May 16, 2026, 4:53 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a07f8c025488190bdc06977f07e6ddc completed May 16, 2026, 4:55 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 1:52 p.m.