Triple

T23332803
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject X-ray Diffraction (book) E591491 entity
Predicate author P4 FINISHED
Object B. E. Warren
B. E. Warren was an American physicist and crystallographer renowned for his pioneering work in X-ray diffraction and the structure of solids.
E1579689 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: B. E. Warren | Statement: [X-ray Diffraction (book), author, B. E. Warren]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: B. E. Warren
Context triple: [X-ray Diffraction (book), author, B. E. Warren]
  • A. D. K. Warren
    D. K. Warren was a prominent figure in Oregon’s early history, recognized as the influential settler and community leader for whom the city of Warrenton is named.
  • B. Burton J. Westcott
    Burton J. Westcott was an American industrialist and automobile executive best known as the owner for whom Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Westcott House in Springfield, Ohio.
  • C. C. B. Hunt
    C. B. Hunt was a geologist who formally named and described the Entrada Sandstone formation.
  • D. F. B. Meek
    F. B. Meek was a 19th-century American paleontologist known for his extensive work on fossil invertebrates and contributions to early geological surveys in the United States.
  • E. Alan S. Boyd
    Alan S. Boyd was an American lawyer and public official who became the first U.S. Secretary of Transportation, helping to shape national transportation policy in the late 1960s.
  • 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: B. E. Warren
Triple: [X-ray Diffraction (book), author, B. E. Warren]
Generated description
B. E. Warren was an American physicist and crystallographer renowned for his pioneering work in X-ray diffraction and the structure of solids.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: B. E. Warren
Target entity description: B. E. Warren was an American physicist and crystallographer renowned for his pioneering work in X-ray diffraction and the structure of solids.
  • A. D. K. Warren
    D. K. Warren was a prominent figure in Oregon’s early history, recognized as the influential settler and community leader for whom the city of Warrenton is named.
  • B. Burton J. Westcott
    Burton J. Westcott was an American industrialist and automobile executive best known as the owner for whom Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Westcott House in Springfield, Ohio.
  • C. C. B. Hunt
    C. B. Hunt was a geologist who formally named and described the Entrada Sandstone formation.
  • D. F. B. Meek
    F. B. Meek was a 19th-century American paleontologist known for his extensive work on fossil invertebrates and contributions to early geological surveys in the United States.
  • E. Alan S. Boyd
    Alan S. Boyd was an American lawyer and public official who became the first U.S. Secretary of Transportation, helping to shape national transportation policy in the late 1960s.
  • 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_69e25d20156c81908c5c53195bd9c738 completed April 17, 2026, 4:17 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f197eecc5c81908089eb43bc701196 completed April 29, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0c4cb082f881909256738232b060b9 completed May 19, 2026, 11:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0c4e669b6481909f198d1c51b68bf3 completed May 19, 2026, 11:49 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0c4f011a188190b801f2ae0f134356 completed May 19, 2026, 11:52 a.m.
Created at: April 17, 2026, 5:15 p.m.