Triple

T2941749
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Maurice Wilkins E79401 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Third Man of the Double Helix
The Third Man of the Double Helix is Maurice Wilkins’s autobiographical account of his role in the discovery of the DNA double-helix structure and the surrounding scientific and personal controversies.
E311376 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: The Third Man of the Double Helix | Statement: [Maurice Wilkins, notableWork, The Third Man of the Double Helix]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Third Man of the Double Helix
Context triple: [Maurice Wilkins, notableWork, The Third Man of the Double Helix]
  • A. The Language of Life
    The Language of Life is a popular science book by geneticist Francis Collins that explains how advances in genomics are transforming medicine and personal health.
  • B. The Double Helix (scientific contribution, not the book author)
    The Double Helix is the iconic structural model of DNA, revealing its two-stranded, twisted-ladder configuration that underpins modern molecular biology and genetics.
  • C. Molecular Biology of the Gene
    Molecular Biology of the Gene is a landmark molecular biology textbook, co-authored by James Watson, that helped define and systematize modern understanding of DNA structure, gene function, and genetic regulation.
  • D. The Selfish Gene
    The Selfish Gene is a landmark 1976 book by Richard Dawkins that popularized a gene-centered view of evolution and introduced concepts like memes to a broad audience.
  • E. How to Win the Nobel Prize: An Unexpected Life in Science
    "How to Win the Nobel Prize: An Unexpected Life in Science" is a memoir by Nobel Prize–winning scientist J. Michael Bishop that recounts his unconventional journey in biomedical research and offers insights into the nature of scientific discovery.
  • 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: The Third Man of the Double Helix
Triple: [Maurice Wilkins, notableWork, The Third Man of the Double Helix]
Generated description
The Third Man of the Double Helix is Maurice Wilkins’s autobiographical account of his role in the discovery of the DNA double-helix structure and the surrounding scientific and personal controversies.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Third Man of the Double Helix
Target entity description: The Third Man of the Double Helix is Maurice Wilkins’s autobiographical account of his role in the discovery of the DNA double-helix structure and the surrounding scientific and personal controversies.
  • A. The Language of Life
    The Language of Life is a popular science book by geneticist Francis Collins that explains how advances in genomics are transforming medicine and personal health.
  • B. The Double Helix (scientific contribution, not the book author)
    The Double Helix is the iconic structural model of DNA, revealing its two-stranded, twisted-ladder configuration that underpins modern molecular biology and genetics.
  • C. Molecular Biology of the Gene
    Molecular Biology of the Gene is a landmark molecular biology textbook, co-authored by James Watson, that helped define and systematize modern understanding of DNA structure, gene function, and genetic regulation.
  • D. The Selfish Gene
    The Selfish Gene is a landmark 1976 book by Richard Dawkins that popularized a gene-centered view of evolution and introduced concepts like memes to a broad audience.
  • E. How to Win the Nobel Prize: An Unexpected Life in Science
    "How to Win the Nobel Prize: An Unexpected Life in Science" is a memoir by Nobel Prize–winning scientist J. Michael Bishop that recounts his unconventional journey in biomedical research and offers insights into the nature of scientific discovery.
  • 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_69ad8b1089588190b74d9e2505e45762 completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69ad9870e5d08190b3b277ba823fe6a1 completed March 8, 2026, 3:40 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b08689ec3481909d9f039069ff19c7 completed March 10, 2026, 9 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b0d241c7088190b440a47f4af54fbb completed March 11, 2026, 2:24 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b0d6466e848190bea4215cc9d358c7 completed March 11, 2026, 2:41 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 2:56 p.m.