Triple

T2629255
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Fortran E59594 entity
Predicate originalDesigner P184 FINISHED
Object John Backus E132264 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: John Backus | Statement: [Fortran, originalDesigner, John Backus]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Backus
Context triple: [Fortran, originalDesigner, John Backus]
  • A. John Backus chosen
    John Backus was an American computer scientist best known for leading the development of the Fortran programming language and contributing foundational work to programming language design and formal notation.
  • B. Alan Perlis
    Alan Perlis was an American computer scientist and educator renowned for his pioneering work in programming languages and for being the first recipient of the Turing Award.
  • C. John McCarthy
    John McCarthy was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist best known as a pioneer of artificial intelligence and the creator of the Lisp programming language.
  • D. Fernando J. Corbató
    Fernando J. Corbató was an American computer scientist best known for pioneering time-sharing operating systems and helping to lay the foundations of modern interactive computing.
  • E. Alonzo Church
    Alonzo Church was an American mathematician and logician best known for developing lambda calculus and making foundational contributions to computability theory and mathematical logic.
  • 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_69ab4ac8596c8190b34997e73d9e991c completed March 6, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69abd8c452508190b02e1630d725497a completed March 7, 2026, 7:50 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69af90a44a348190b8b49b37418dd94b completed March 10, 2026, 3:31 a.m.
Created at: March 6, 2026, 9:50 p.m.