Triple
T317069
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Stephen Hawking |
E7730
|
entity |
| Predicate | fullName |
P16
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Stephen William Hawking |
E7730
|
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: Stephen William Hawking | Statement: [Stephen Hawking, fullName, Stephen William Hawking]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Stephen William Hawking Context triple: [Stephen Hawking, fullName, Stephen William Hawking]
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A.
Stephen Hawking
chosen
Stephen Hawking was a renowned theoretical physicist and cosmologist best known for his work on black holes, Hawking radiation, and his popular science book "A Brief History of Time."
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B.
Jacob Bekenstein
Jacob Bekenstein was an Israeli-American theoretical physicist best known for pioneering the concept of black hole entropy and contributing fundamentally to black hole thermodynamics.
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C.
John Archibald Wheeler
John Archibald Wheeler was a prominent American theoretical physicist known for his pioneering work in quantum mechanics, general relativity, and nuclear physics, and for coining influential terms such as "black hole."
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D.
Frank Tipler
Frank Tipler is an American mathematical physicist and cosmologist known for his controversial ideas on the Fermi paradox, the Omega Point theory, and the intersection of physics with theology.
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E.
Peter Higgs
Peter Higgs is a British theoretical physicist best known for proposing the Higgs mechanism, which predicted the existence of the Higgs boson and fundamentally shaped the Standard Model of particle physics.
- 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_69a2e7e7af7881908890039d6be4e9b8 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a2ea65ca7081908093e6aaaf2d34f7 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 1:15 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a3c41c00888190861d2b6d4bfc8904 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 4:44 a.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.