Triple

T353525
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Oersted Medal E7493 entity
Predicate hasRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Francis W. Sears
Francis W. Sears was an American physicist and influential physics educator known for his widely used textbooks and contributions to physics teaching.
E214880 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: Francis W. Sears | Statement: [Oersted Medal, hasRecipient, Francis W. Sears]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Francis W. Sears
Context triple: [Oersted Medal, hasRecipient, Francis W. Sears]
  • A. Edmund G. Ross
    Edmund G. Ross was a 19th-century U.S. senator from Kansas best known for casting the decisive vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, an act later celebrated in John F. Kennedy’s "Profiles in Courage."
  • B. Harry M. Wegeforth
    Harry M. Wegeforth was an American physician and civic leader best known for establishing and guiding the early development of the San Diego Zoo into a major zoological institution.
  • C. Ralph B. Lloyd
    Ralph B. Lloyd was an American oilman and real estate developer whose investments and land holdings played a major role in shaping urban districts in the western United States.
  • D. William C. Foster
    William C. Foster was an American government official and diplomat best known for his leadership roles in U.S. foreign aid and arms control policy during the mid-20th century.
  • E. Nathaniel A. Owings
    Nathaniel A. Owings was an American architect best known as a co-founder of the influential modernist architecture and engineering firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
  • 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: Francis W. Sears
Triple: [Oersted Medal, hasRecipient, Francis W. Sears]
Generated description
Francis W. Sears was an American physicist and influential physics educator known for his widely used textbooks and contributions to physics teaching.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Francis W. Sears
Target entity description: Francis W. Sears was an American physicist and influential physics educator known for his widely used textbooks and contributions to physics teaching.
  • A. Edmund G. Ross
    Edmund G. Ross was a 19th-century U.S. senator from Kansas best known for casting the decisive vote against the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, an act later celebrated in John F. Kennedy’s "Profiles in Courage."
  • B. Harry M. Wegeforth
    Harry M. Wegeforth was an American physician and civic leader best known for establishing and guiding the early development of the San Diego Zoo into a major zoological institution.
  • C. Ralph B. Lloyd
    Ralph B. Lloyd was an American oilman and real estate developer whose investments and land holdings played a major role in shaping urban districts in the western United States.
  • D. William C. Foster
    William C. Foster was an American government official and diplomat best known for his leadership roles in U.S. foreign aid and arms control policy during the mid-20th century.
  • E. Nathaniel A. Owings
    Nathaniel A. Owings was an American architect best known as a co-founder of the influential modernist architecture and engineering firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
  • 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_69adf39f5694819086fcdbd27fa2ea4b completed March 8, 2026, 10:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adf471909881909de20d9d1fa0b372 completed March 8, 2026, 10:13 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adf50b17a081909b93ad3e08c71772 completed March 8, 2026, 10:15 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.