Triple

T26971
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Barbara McClintock E540 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object McClintock
McClintock is a surname most notably associated with Barbara McClintock, the pioneering American cytogeneticist and Nobel Prize laureate recognized for her discovery of genetic transposition.
 E3532 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: McClintock | Statement: [Barbara McClintock, familyName, McClintock]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: McClintock
Context triple: [Barbara McClintock, familyName, McClintock]
  • A. Moore
    Moore is the middle name of Edward M. Kennedy, the long-serving U.S. senator from Massachusetts and prominent member of the Kennedy political family.
  • B. Douglas
    Douglas is a masculine given name of Scottish origin that has been widely used in English-speaking countries.
  • C. Nelson
    Nelson is a common English-language surname borne by numerous notable figures across politics, sports, entertainment, and academia.
  • D. Lynn
    Lynn is a coastal city in northeastern Massachusetts, known as one of the larger urban centers in the Greater Boston metropolitan area.
  • E. Lawrence
    Lawrence is a historic mill city in northeastern Massachusetts that developed as a major textile manufacturing center along the Merrimack River.
  • 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: McClintock
Triple: [Barbara McClintock, familyName, McClintock]
Generated description
McClintock is a surname most notably associated with Barbara McClintock, the pioneering American cytogeneticist and Nobel Prize laureate recognized for her discovery of genetic transposition.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: McClintock
Target entity description: McClintock is a surname most notably associated with Barbara McClintock, the pioneering American cytogeneticist and Nobel Prize laureate recognized for her discovery of genetic transposition.
  • A. Moore
    Moore is the middle name of Edward M. Kennedy, the long-serving U.S. senator from Massachusetts and prominent member of the Kennedy political family.
  • B. Douglas
    Douglas is a masculine given name of Scottish origin that has been widely used in English-speaking countries.
  • C. Nelson
    Nelson is a common English-language surname borne by numerous notable figures across politics, sports, entertainment, and academia.
  • D. Lynn
    Lynn is a coastal city in northeastern Massachusetts, known as one of the larger urban centers in the Greater Boston metropolitan area.
  • E. Lawrence
    Lawrence is a historic mill city in northeastern Massachusetts that developed as a major textile manufacturing center along the Merrimack River.
  • 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_69a243b4ac2c8190b93c303df797b7b2 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:24 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2467875048190aad87347c7a1cb67 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:36 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a24e5b531481909078feeee5cf26e2 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:09 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a2506ad2ac8190b5a61c3fb3890d47 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:18 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a25147eccc8190b6151a03b064d31c completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:22 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:34 a.m.