Triple
T22729239
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Nichols Medal |
E562085
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableRecipient |
P108
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Ahmed Zewail |
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|
NE NERFINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Ahmed Zewail | Statement: [Nichols Medal, notableRecipient, Ahmed Zewail]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ahmed Zewail Context triple: [Nichols Medal, notableRecipient, Ahmed Zewail]
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A.
Ahmed Zewail
chosen
Ahmed Zewail was an Egyptian-American chemist and Nobel laureate renowned as the “father of femtochemistry” for his pioneering work using ultrafast lasers to observe chemical reactions in real time.
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B.
John Polanyi
John Polanyi is a Canadian chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in chemical kinetics and reaction dynamics.
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C.
Dudley R. Herschbach
Dudley R. Herschbach is an American chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in molecular beam experiments that advanced the understanding of chemical reaction dynamics.
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D.
Joachim Frank
Joachim Frank is a German-American biophysicist and Nobel laureate renowned for pioneering cryo-electron microscopy techniques that revolutionized the visualization of biomolecules.
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E.
Hartmut Michel
Hartmut Michel is a German biochemist and Nobel laureate renowned for elucidating the structure of membrane proteins, particularly the photosynthetic reaction center.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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_69e24550859c81908727d91efc3a81b4 |
completed | April 17, 2026, 2:36 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69f1792be7d88190b6d7d79041fcba25 |
completed | April 29, 2026, 3:21 a.m. |
Created at: April 17, 2026, 3:21 p.m.