Triple

T3530644
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Michael Bishop E74650 entity
Predicate doctoralAdvisor P167 FINISHED
Object B. N. Ames (postdoctoral mentor; biochemistry at NIH)
B. N. Ames is a biochemist at the U.S. National Institutes of Health who served as a postdoctoral mentor to future Nobel laureate John Michael Bishop.
 E364460 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: B. N. Ames (postdoctoral mentor; biochemistry at NIH) | Statement: [John Michael Bishop, doctoralAdvisor, B. N. Ames (postdoctoral mentor; biochemistry at NIH)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: B. N. Ames (postdoctoral mentor; biochemistry at NIH)
Context triple: [John Michael Bishop, doctoralAdvisor, B. N. Ames (postdoctoral mentor; biochemistry at NIH)]
  • A. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
    The Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is a prestigious research fellowship that supports outstanding early-career scientists in conducting innovative, independent research in the chemical and life sciences.
  • B. Max Delbrück Medal
    The Max Delbrück Medal is a prestigious German scientific award recognizing outstanding contributions to molecular biology and related life sciences.
  • C. Max Delbrück
    Max Delbrück was a German-American biophysicist and Nobel Prize–winning pioneer of molecular genetics whose work on bacteriophages helped establish the foundations of modern molecular biology.
  • D. Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge
    The Department of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge is a leading research and teaching center focused on understanding the molecular mechanisms of life, spanning areas such as structural biology, cell biology, and systems biology.
  • E. George W. Beadle
    George W. Beadle was an American geneticist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on the "one gene–one enzyme" hypothesis, which helped establish the field of molecular genetics.
  • 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: B. N. Ames (postdoctoral mentor; biochemistry at NIH)
Triple: [John Michael Bishop, doctoralAdvisor, B. N. Ames (postdoctoral mentor; biochemistry at NIH)]
Generated description
B. N. Ames is a biochemist at the U.S. National Institutes of Health who served as a postdoctoral mentor to future Nobel laureate John Michael Bishop.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: B. N. Ames (postdoctoral mentor; biochemistry at NIH)
Target entity description: B. N. Ames is a biochemist at the U.S. National Institutes of Health who served as a postdoctoral mentor to future Nobel laureate John Michael Bishop.
  • A. Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
    The Beckman Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is a prestigious research fellowship that supports outstanding early-career scientists in conducting innovative, independent research in the chemical and life sciences.
  • B. Max Delbrück Medal
    The Max Delbrück Medal is a prestigious German scientific award recognizing outstanding contributions to molecular biology and related life sciences.
  • C. Max Delbrück
    Max Delbrück was a German-American biophysicist and Nobel Prize–winning pioneer of molecular genetics whose work on bacteriophages helped establish the foundations of modern molecular biology.
  • D. Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge
    The Department of Biochemistry at the University of Cambridge is a leading research and teaching center focused on understanding the molecular mechanisms of life, spanning areas such as structural biology, cell biology, and systems biology.
  • E. George W. Beadle
    George W. Beadle was an American geneticist and Nobel laureate renowned for his work on the "one gene–one enzyme" hypothesis, which helped establish the field of molecular genetics.
  • 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_69ad85d1a3948190931fd1ea1f49717b completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adbc988ee081909c6b9d5eed0d2d6d completed March 8, 2026, 6:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b37e97536881908d5ed3dfe602c9e0 completed March 13, 2026, 3:03 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b37f232b8881908f7b4df89399d1d8 completed March 13, 2026, 3:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b37f8fea9481909eb82a06e6c71e98 completed March 13, 2026, 3:08 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:19 p.m.