Triple

T2370896
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Herbert Boyer E46086 entity
Predicate notableStudentOrCollaborator P25977 FINISHED
Object Stanley N. Cohen
Stanley N. Cohen is an American geneticist and a pioneer of recombinant DNA technology, best known for co-developing methods to clone and manipulate DNA in bacteria.
E267321 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: Stanley N. Cohen | Statement: [Herbert Boyer, notableStudentOrCollaborator, Stanley N. Cohen]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Stanley N. Cohen
Context triple: [Herbert Boyer, notableStudentOrCollaborator, Stanley N. Cohen]
  • A. Herbert Boyer
    Herbert Boyer is an American biochemist and genetic engineer renowned as a pioneer of recombinant DNA technology and a co-founder of the biotechnology company Genentech.
  • B. J. Michael Bishop
    J. Michael Bishop is an American immunologist and microbiologist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes, fundamentally advancing cancer biology.
  • C. Renato Dulbecco
    Renato Dulbecco was an Italian virologist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the interaction between viruses and the genetic material of cells, which advanced the understanding of cancer.
  • D. Phillip A. Sharp
    Phillip A. Sharp is an American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his discovery of RNA splicing and his long-standing research and leadership at MIT.
  • E. Sydney Brenner
    Sydney Brenner was a pioneering South African biologist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for his foundational work in molecular biology and the use of C. elegans as a model organism.
  • 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: Stanley N. Cohen
Triple: [Herbert Boyer, notableStudentOrCollaborator, Stanley N. Cohen]
Generated description
Stanley N. Cohen is an American geneticist and a pioneer of recombinant DNA technology, best known for co-developing methods to clone and manipulate DNA in bacteria.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Stanley N. Cohen
Target entity description: Stanley N. Cohen is an American geneticist and a pioneer of recombinant DNA technology, best known for co-developing methods to clone and manipulate DNA in bacteria.
  • A. Herbert Boyer
    Herbert Boyer is an American biochemist and genetic engineer renowned as a pioneer of recombinant DNA technology and a co-founder of the biotechnology company Genentech.
  • B. J. Michael Bishop
    J. Michael Bishop is an American immunologist and microbiologist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes, fundamentally advancing cancer biology.
  • C. Renato Dulbecco
    Renato Dulbecco was an Italian virologist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for his pioneering work on the interaction between viruses and the genetic material of cells, which advanced the understanding of cancer.
  • D. Phillip A. Sharp
    Phillip A. Sharp is an American molecular biologist and Nobel laureate renowned for his discovery of RNA splicing and his long-standing research and leadership at MIT.
  • E. Sydney Brenner
    Sydney Brenner was a pioneering South African biologist and Nobel Prize laureate renowned for his foundational work in molecular biology and the use of C. elegans as a model organism.
  • 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_69a88a145268819083e2736cb835c696 completed March 4, 2026, 7:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abc76f5aec8190867d621e6849258c completed March 7, 2026, 6:36 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69aef094fd8081909fc9a19f3e36c0d0 completed March 9, 2026, 4:08 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69aef252765081909e36c8355cb14c18 completed March 9, 2026, 4:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69aef5b78e248190b1f064f3942a24ff completed March 9, 2026, 4:30 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:56 p.m.