Triple

T2169595
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Edmund M. Clarke E46990 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object Edmund Melson Clarke Jr.
Edmund Melson Clarke Jr. was an American computer scientist best known for co-developing model checking, a pioneering technique in formal verification of hardware and software systems.
 E239162 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: Edmund Melson Clarke Jr. | Statement: [Edmund M. Clarke, birthName, Edmund Melson Clarke Jr.]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Edmund Melson Clarke Jr.
Context triple: [Edmund M. Clarke, birthName, Edmund Melson Clarke Jr.]
  • A. Charles Ranlett Flint
    Charles Ranlett Flint was an American financier and industrialist best known for orchestrating mergers that led to the creation of major corporations, including the company that became IBM.
  • B. George A. Perkins
    George A. Perkins was an American lawyer best known as a founding partner of the prominent U.S. law firm Perkins Coie.
  • C. George C. Perkins
    George C. Perkins was an American politician and businessman who served as the 14th governor of California and later as a U.S. Senator.
  • D. Henry G. Morse
    Henry G. Morse was an American industrialist and shipbuilder best known as the founder of the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, once one of the largest and most advanced shipyards in the United States.
  • E. Amos G. Throop
    Amos G. Throop was an American educator and philanthropist whose early vocational school in Pasadena evolved into the California Institute of Technology.
  • 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: Edmund Melson Clarke Jr.
Triple: [Edmund M. Clarke, birthName, Edmund Melson Clarke Jr.]
Generated description
Edmund Melson Clarke Jr. was an American computer scientist best known for co-developing model checking, a pioneering technique in formal verification of hardware and software systems.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Edmund Melson Clarke Jr.
Target entity description: Edmund Melson Clarke Jr. was an American computer scientist best known for co-developing model checking, a pioneering technique in formal verification of hardware and software systems.
  • A. Charles Ranlett Flint
    Charles Ranlett Flint was an American financier and industrialist best known for orchestrating mergers that led to the creation of major corporations, including the company that became IBM.
  • B. George A. Perkins
    George A. Perkins was an American lawyer best known as a founding partner of the prominent U.S. law firm Perkins Coie.
  • C. George C. Perkins
    George C. Perkins was an American politician and businessman who served as the 14th governor of California and later as a U.S. Senator.
  • D. Henry G. Morse
    Henry G. Morse was an American industrialist and shipbuilder best known as the founder of the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, once one of the largest and most advanced shipyards in the United States.
  • E. Amos G. Throop
    Amos G. Throop was an American educator and philanthropist whose early vocational school in Pasadena evolved into the California Institute of Technology.
  • 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_69a88a184cbc8190877791f6552c2484 completed March 4, 2026, 7:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abbeaeb58881908ad34f7b253bac2a completed March 7, 2026, 5:59 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae58f511a08190880fbde8900d59df completed March 9, 2026, 5:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae59a9b010819081491e988184b386 completed March 9, 2026, 5:24 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae5a12f11c81908cc345905f0a485e completed March 9, 2026, 5:26 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:45 p.m.