Triple

T286490
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Met Lab E5895 entity
Predicate employed P7 FINISHED
Object Robert F. Christy
Robert F. Christy was a Canadian-American theoretical physicist best known for his key role in the Manhattan Project, including designing the "Christy pit" core used in the Trinity test and the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
 E45562 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: Robert F. Christy | Statement: [Met Lab, employed, Robert F. Christy]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Robert F. Christy
Context triple: [Met Lab, employed, Robert F. Christy]
  • A. Robert B. Leighton
    Robert B. Leighton was an American experimental physicist and educator known for his contributions to cosmic-ray and infrared astronomy and for coauthoring the influential Feynman Lectures on Physics.
  • B. John R. Pierce
    John R. Pierce was an American engineer and scientist best known for his pioneering work in communications technology, including satellite and microwave systems, and for coining the term "transistor."
  • C. Luis Alvarez
    Luis Alvarez was an American experimental physicist and Nobel laureate known for his work on radar, the Manhattan Project, and the discovery of numerous particle resonances.
  • D. Stanley Corrsin
    Stanley Corrsin was a prominent American fluid dynamicist renowned for his pioneering contributions to the study of turbulence and mixing in fluid flows.
  • E. Dr. Newton Geiszler
    Dr. Newton Geiszler is an eccentric and brilliant kaiju-obsessed scientist who plays a key role in understanding and combating the monstrous threats in the Pacific Rim universe.
  • 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: Robert F. Christy
Triple: [Met Lab, employed, Robert F. Christy]
Generated description
Robert F. Christy was a Canadian-American theoretical physicist best known for his key role in the Manhattan Project, including designing the "Christy pit" core used in the Trinity test and the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Robert F. Christy
Target entity description: Robert F. Christy was a Canadian-American theoretical physicist best known for his key role in the Manhattan Project, including designing the "Christy pit" core used in the Trinity test and the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
  • A. Robert B. Leighton
    Robert B. Leighton was an American experimental physicist and educator known for his contributions to cosmic-ray and infrared astronomy and for coauthoring the influential Feynman Lectures on Physics.
  • B. John R. Pierce
    John R. Pierce was an American engineer and scientist best known for his pioneering work in communications technology, including satellite and microwave systems, and for coining the term "transistor."
  • C. Luis Alvarez
    Luis Alvarez was an American experimental physicist and Nobel laureate known for his work on radar, the Manhattan Project, and the discovery of numerous particle resonances.
  • D. Stanley Corrsin
    Stanley Corrsin was a prominent American fluid dynamicist renowned for his pioneering contributions to the study of turbulence and mixing in fluid flows.
  • E. Dr. Newton Geiszler
    Dr. Newton Geiszler is an eccentric and brilliant kaiju-obsessed scientist who plays a key role in understanding and combating the monstrous threats in the Pacific Rim universe.
  • 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_69a25946a7ac8190a78871c210213272 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:56 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a25e2c73a48190b549b688254e5fee completed Feb. 28, 2026, 3:17 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a3e56fd6b88190b18e081386436ea9 completed March 1, 2026, 7:06 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a3e61ad63c8190940eaba657cd3df2 completed March 1, 2026, 7:09 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a3e668e05c8190ba92c581622756df completed March 1, 2026, 7:10 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 3:02 a.m.