Triple

T353512
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Oersted Medal E7493 entity
Predicate hasRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Robert A. Millikan
Robert A. Millikan was an American experimental physicist best known for his oil-drop experiment measuring the electron’s charge and for his Nobel Prize–winning work on the photoelectric effect.
 E65870 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 A. Millikan | Statement: [Oersted Medal, hasRecipient, Robert A. Millikan]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Robert A. Millikan
Context triple: [Oersted Medal, hasRecipient, Robert A. Millikan]
  • A. Arthur H. Compton
    Arthur H. Compton was an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for discovering the Compton effect and for his leadership in early nuclear research.
  • B. Percy W. Bridgman
    Percy W. Bridgman was an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in high-pressure physics and for developing the philosophical approach known as operationalism.
  • C. Ernest O. Lawrence
    Ernest O. Lawrence was an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known for inventing the cyclotron and pioneering nuclear physics research.
  • D. I. I. Rabi
    I. I. Rabi was a Nobel Prize–winning American physicist renowned for his pioneering work in nuclear magnetic resonance and contributions to quantum physics.
  • E. Albert A. Michelson
    Albert A. Michelson was an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his precise measurements of the speed of light and foundational contributions to experimental physics.
  • 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 A. Millikan
Triple: [Oersted Medal, hasRecipient, Robert A. Millikan]
Generated description
Robert A. Millikan was an American experimental physicist best known for his oil-drop experiment measuring the electron’s charge and for his Nobel Prize–winning work on the photoelectric effect.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Robert A. Millikan
Target entity description: Robert A. Millikan was an American experimental physicist best known for his oil-drop experiment measuring the electron’s charge and for his Nobel Prize–winning work on the photoelectric effect.
  • A. Arthur H. Compton
    Arthur H. Compton was an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for discovering the Compton effect and for his leadership in early nuclear research.
  • B. Percy W. Bridgman
    Percy W. Bridgman was an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in high-pressure physics and for developing the philosophical approach known as operationalism.
  • C. Ernest O. Lawrence
    Ernest O. Lawrence was an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known for inventing the cyclotron and pioneering nuclear physics research.
  • D. I. I. Rabi
    I. I. Rabi was a Nobel Prize–winning American physicist renowned for his pioneering work in nuclear magnetic resonance and contributions to quantum physics.
  • E. Albert A. Michelson
    Albert A. Michelson was an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his precise measurements of the speed of light and foundational contributions to experimental physics.
  • 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_69a2e7e696948190bebc966535995e45 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2eb80f524819093f4c2c18c3d615f completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:20 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a4b238cd848190b5d9152d63dbe71c completed March 1, 2026, 9:40 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4b4dd7fe48190b6dd29b2b806a2a5 completed March 1, 2026, 9:51 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4b52a79548190ac8ff1b7dd9ccbe5 completed March 1, 2026, 9:52 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.