Triple

T20200862
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Acta Materialia Gold Medal E493212 entity
Predicate hasAwarded P2391 FINISHED
Object Yiu-Wing Mai
Yiu-Wing Mai is a renowned materials scientist and engineer recognized internationally for his pioneering contributions to fracture mechanics, composite materials, and nanostructured materials.
E1417611 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: Yiu-Wing Mai | Statement: [Acta Materialia Gold Medal, hasAwarded, Yiu-Wing Mai]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Yiu-Wing Mai
Context triple: [Acta Materialia Gold Medal, hasAwarded, Yiu-Wing Mai]
  • A. George K. T. Hau
    George K. T. Hau is an astronomer known for his work on nearby galaxies, including the discovery of the dwarf spheroidal galaxy Andromeda VI.
  • B. Tung-Mow Yan
    Tung-Mow Yan is a theoretical physicist best known for co-formulating the Drell–Yan process, a fundamental mechanism for lepton pair production in high-energy particle collisions.
  • C. Ben Ngai-Cheung Lee
    Ben Ngai-Cheung Lee is a screenwriter known for his work in film and television, contributing to contemporary scripted storytelling.
  • D. Shun-Tak Leung
    Shun-Tak Leung is a computer scientist known for co-authoring the influential Google File System paper on distributed storage infrastructure at Google.
  • E. Ching-Yun Hu
    Ching-Yun Hu is a Taiwanese-American concert pianist acclaimed for her international competition successes and performances with major orchestras worldwide.
  • 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: Yiu-Wing Mai
Triple: [Acta Materialia Gold Medal, hasAwarded, Yiu-Wing Mai]
Generated description
Yiu-Wing Mai is a renowned materials scientist and engineer recognized internationally for his pioneering contributions to fracture mechanics, composite materials, and nanostructured materials.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Yiu-Wing Mai
Target entity description: Yiu-Wing Mai is a renowned materials scientist and engineer recognized internationally for his pioneering contributions to fracture mechanics, composite materials, and nanostructured materials.
  • A. George K. T. Hau
    George K. T. Hau is an astronomer known for his work on nearby galaxies, including the discovery of the dwarf spheroidal galaxy Andromeda VI.
  • B. Tung-Mow Yan
    Tung-Mow Yan is a theoretical physicist best known for co-formulating the Drell–Yan process, a fundamental mechanism for lepton pair production in high-energy particle collisions.
  • C. Ben Ngai-Cheung Lee
    Ben Ngai-Cheung Lee is a screenwriter known for his work in film and television, contributing to contemporary scripted storytelling.
  • D. Shun-Tak Leung
    Shun-Tak Leung is a computer scientist known for co-authoring the influential Google File System paper on distributed storage infrastructure at Google.
  • E. Ching-Yun Hu
    Ching-Yun Hu is a Taiwanese-American concert pianist acclaimed for her international competition successes and performances with major orchestras worldwide.
  • 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_69da6269614c8190bb40475d9d477358 completed April 11, 2026, 3:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e66d8d01648190b1b3a6e03f0258d8 completed April 20, 2026, 6:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0843e8cd9c8190853f116ed0e4662b completed May 16, 2026, 10:16 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0844d37fc48190a73ab9d45227e7eb completed May 16, 2026, 10:20 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a084554462081908a1b801fe1528fa0 completed May 16, 2026, 10:22 a.m.
Created at: April 11, 2026, 11:37 p.m.