Triple

T2296738
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Edwin E. Salpeter E51632 entity
Predicate coAuthor P398 FINISHED
Object William A. Fowler
William A. Fowler was an American nuclear physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the nuclear reactions that power stars and synthesize the chemical elements.
E253720 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: William A. Fowler | Statement: [Edwin E. Salpeter, coAuthor, William A. Fowler]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William A. Fowler
Context triple: [Edwin E. Salpeter, coAuthor, William A. Fowler]
  • A. Ralph Fowler
    Ralph Fowler was a prominent British theoretical physicist and mathematician known for his influential work in statistical mechanics and quantum theory, as well as for mentoring leading physicists of the 20th century.
  • B. Hans Bethe
    Hans Bethe was a German-American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on nuclear reactions in stars and his leadership in nuclear physics research during World War II and beyond.
  • C. Edwin E. Salpeter
    Edwin E. Salpeter was an influential Austrian–Australian astrophysicist best known for his pioneering work on stellar nucleosynthesis and the initial mass function of stars.
  • D. 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.
  • 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. 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: William A. Fowler
Triple: [Edwin E. Salpeter, coAuthor, William A. Fowler]
Generated description
William A. Fowler was an American nuclear physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the nuclear reactions that power stars and synthesize the chemical elements.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William A. Fowler
Target entity description: William A. Fowler was an American nuclear physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the nuclear reactions that power stars and synthesize the chemical elements.
  • A. Ralph Fowler
    Ralph Fowler was a prominent British theoretical physicist and mathematician known for his influential work in statistical mechanics and quantum theory, as well as for mentoring leading physicists of the 20th century.
  • B. Hans Bethe
    Hans Bethe was a German-American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on nuclear reactions in stars and his leadership in nuclear physics research during World War II and beyond.
  • C. Edwin E. Salpeter
    Edwin E. Salpeter was an influential Austrian–Australian astrophysicist best known for his pioneering work on stellar nucleosynthesis and the initial mass function of stars.
  • D. 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.
  • 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. 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_69a88b0a9f248190bcff941463d8f65a completed March 4, 2026, 7:42 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc5ddf00081909acb47cbd9a5f20e completed March 7, 2026, 6:29 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae7f28db6c81909dbe55c704307da6 completed March 9, 2026, 8:04 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae7fd6e8608190b48f3a50ee62d664 completed March 9, 2026, 8:07 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae804b402c81909a5fc68c6ee3decb completed March 9, 2026, 8:09 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:49 p.m.