Triple

T2532843
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John W. Mauchly E56200 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Mauchly
Mauchly is the surname of John W. Mauchly, the American physicist and co-inventor of the ENIAC, one of the earliest general-purpose electronic digital computers.
 E275052 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: Mauchly | Statement: [John W. Mauchly, familyName, Mauchly]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Mauchly
Context triple: [John W. Mauchly, familyName, Mauchly]
  • A. F-test
    The F-test is a statistical hypothesis test used to compare variances and assess the overall significance of models, especially in analysis of variance (ANOVA) and regression.
  • B. Cochran
    Cochran is a surname of Scottish origin borne by various notable individuals in fields such as politics, science, and the arts.
  • C. Behrens
    Behrens is a German surname most notably associated with influential architect and designer Peter Behrens.
  • D. Cochran Square
    Cochran Square is a public square located in the coastal city of Brunswick, Georgia.
  • E. Hotelling’s T-squared distribution
    Hotelling’s T-squared distribution is a multivariate generalization of Student’s t-distribution used primarily for hypothesis testing and constructing confidence regions for mean vectors in multivariate statistics.
  • 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: Mauchly
Triple: [John W. Mauchly, familyName, Mauchly]
Generated description
Mauchly is the surname of John W. Mauchly, the American physicist and co-inventor of the ENIAC, one of the earliest general-purpose electronic digital computers.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Mauchly
Target entity description: Mauchly is the surname of John W. Mauchly, the American physicist and co-inventor of the ENIAC, one of the earliest general-purpose electronic digital computers.
  • A. F-test
    The F-test is a statistical hypothesis test used to compare variances and assess the overall significance of models, especially in analysis of variance (ANOVA) and regression.
  • B. Cochran
    Cochran is a surname of Scottish origin borne by various notable individuals in fields such as politics, science, and the arts.
  • C. Behrens
    Behrens is a German surname most notably associated with influential architect and designer Peter Behrens.
  • D. Cochran Square
    Cochran Square is a public square located in the coastal city of Brunswick, Georgia.
  • E. Hotelling’s T-squared distribution
    Hotelling’s T-squared distribution is a multivariate generalization of Student’s t-distribution used primarily for hypothesis testing and constructing confidence regions for mean vectors in multivariate statistics.
  • 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_69ab4a49b6508190bc467fbef4bac334 completed March 6, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd279cf108190b03fb6e0265f39d9 completed March 7, 2026, 7:23 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af2bb9c37081909128d7a227651c8b completed March 9, 2026, 8:21 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69af4fedb0a48190a9d9da8eeebfe074 completed March 9, 2026, 10:55 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69af50551fd88190829d20ab2be426d4 completed March 9, 2026, 10:57 p.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:47 p.m.