Triple
T2291698
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Comstock Prize in Physics |
E51517
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableRecipient |
P108
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Edward M. Purcell |
E53418
|
NE FINISHED |
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: Edward M. Purcell | Statement: [Comstock Prize in Physics, notableRecipient, Edward M. Purcell]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward M. Purcell Context triple: [Comstock Prize in Physics, notableRecipient, Edward M. Purcell]
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A.
Edward M. Purcell
chosen
Edward M. Purcell was an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance, which laid the foundation for technologies such as MRI.
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B.
Robert B. Leighton
Robert B. Leighton was an American experimental physicist and educator known for his contributions to cosmic-ray and infrared astronomy and for coauthoring the influential Feynman Lectures on Physics.
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C.
Murray Feshbach
Murray Feshbach was an American demographer and scholar known for his pioneering research on Soviet and Russian population, public health, and environmental issues.
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D.
David E. Pritchard
David E. Pritchard is an American physicist known for his pioneering work in atomic, molecular, and optical physics and for his influential contributions to physics education.
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E.
Robert H. Dicke
Robert H. Dicke was an influential American physicist known for his pioneering work in gravitation, cosmology, and microwave physics, including contributions that helped establish the Big Bang theory.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69a88b09c644819090b503456d96bf70 |
completed | March 4, 2026, 7:42 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69abc5b50df481908a3d8f71d245e8fa |
completed | March 7, 2026, 6:29 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69aeb3b974d881909b35dfd08def7b80 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 11:49 a.m. |
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:48 p.m.