Triple

T210705
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Fluid Dynamics Prize E4710 entity
Predicate hasRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object R. Byron Bird
R. Byron Bird was an influential American chemical engineer and professor renowned for his pioneering work in transport phenomena and rheology.
E87849 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: R. Byron Bird | Statement: [Fluid Dynamics Prize, hasRecipient, R. Byron Bird]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: R. Byron Bird
Context triple: [Fluid Dynamics Prize, hasRecipient, R. Byron Bird]
  • A. Harold A. Wheeler
    Harold A. Wheeler was an influential American electrical engineer and inventor known for his pioneering contributions to radio and radar technology.
  • B. Robert K. Brigham
    Robert K. Brigham is an American historian and scholar of the Vietnam War, known for his extensive research and writings on U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam conflict.
  • C. Robert B. Hotz
    Robert B. Hotz was an American aviation journalist and editor known for his expertise in aerospace and defense, who served on the presidential Rogers Commission investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
  • D. George L. Dahl
    George L. Dahl was a prominent 20th-century American architect known for shaping much of Dallas’s skyline and major civic landmarks.
  • E. Harry L. Parr
    Harry L. Parr was an American attorney best known as one of the founding partners of the prominent law firm Perkins Coie.
  • 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: R. Byron Bird
Triple: [Fluid Dynamics Prize, hasRecipient, R. Byron Bird]
Generated description
R. Byron Bird was an influential American chemical engineer and professor renowned for his pioneering work in transport phenomena and rheology.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: R. Byron Bird
Target entity description: R. Byron Bird was an influential American chemical engineer and professor renowned for his pioneering work in transport phenomena and rheology.
  • A. Harold A. Wheeler
    Harold A. Wheeler was an influential American electrical engineer and inventor known for his pioneering contributions to radio and radar technology.
  • B. Robert K. Brigham
    Robert K. Brigham is an American historian and scholar of the Vietnam War, known for his extensive research and writings on U.S. foreign policy and the Vietnam conflict.
  • C. Robert B. Hotz
    Robert B. Hotz was an American aviation journalist and editor known for his expertise in aerospace and defense, who served on the presidential Rogers Commission investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
  • D. George L. Dahl
    George L. Dahl was a prominent 20th-century American architect known for shaping much of Dallas’s skyline and major civic landmarks.
  • E. Harry L. Parr
    Harry L. Parr was an American attorney best known as one of the founding partners of the prominent law firm Perkins Coie.
  • 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_69a2575cb1dc8190a01ad332426dc339 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25c2ead8481909996042efcae5e9d completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a64a467f74819092d3b89baf4be2bc completed March 3, 2026, 2:41 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a64c24ed908190b124c1eab5b57cce completed March 3, 2026, 2:49 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a64c70803c81909cb7f3c0189733b4 completed March 3, 2026, 2:50 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:52 a.m.