Triple

T20241965
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman E498317 entity
Predicate starring P1507 FINISHED
Object William Shockley — NE NERFINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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: William Shockley | Statement: [Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, starring, William Shockley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Shockley
Context triple: [Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, starring, William Shockley]
  • A. William Shockley
    William Shockley was an American physicist and co-inventor of the transistor whose work helped launch the field of solid-state electronics and earned him a share of the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics.
  • B. William R. Shockley
    William R. Shockley was a United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient for his actions during World War II.
  • C. Jean Hoerni
    Jean Hoerni was a Swiss-born physicist and engineer best known for inventing the planar process, a foundational technology that enabled the modern semiconductor and integrated circuit industry.
  • D. Walter Brattain
    Walter Brattain was an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known as one of the co-inventors of the transistor.
  • E. Clarence Zener
    Clarence Zener was an American physicist best known for his work on quantum mechanics and solid-state physics, including the theoretical explanation of Zener tunneling in semiconductors.
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Shockley
Target entity description: William Shockley is an American actor best known for his role as Hank Lawson on the television series "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman."
  • A. William Shockley
    William Shockley was an American physicist and co-inventor of the transistor whose work helped launch the field of solid-state electronics and earned him a share of the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics.
  • B. William R. Shockley
    William R. Shockley was a United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient for his actions during World War II.
  • C. Jean Hoerni
    Jean Hoerni was a Swiss-born physicist and engineer best known for inventing the planar process, a foundational technology that enabled the modern semiconductor and integrated circuit industry.
  • D. Walter Brattain
    Walter Brattain was an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known as one of the co-inventors of the transistor.
  • E. Clarence Zener
    Clarence Zener was an American physicist best known for his work on quantum mechanics and solid-state physics, including the theoretical explanation of Zener tunneling in semiconductors.
  • F. None of above. chosen

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_69da6274c58c81909c646eabed6f4f30 completed April 11, 2026, 3:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6716f9d248190a145f6883827ebbe completed April 20, 2026, 6:33 p.m.
Created at: April 11, 2026, 11:40 p.m.