Triple

T3566577
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John G. Trump E75462 entity
Predicate workedOn P3 FINISHED
Object Van de Graaff generators
Van de Graaff generators are electrostatic machines that use a moving belt to accumulate very high voltages on a hollow metal sphere, commonly used for physics research and educational demonstrations of electricity.
E369717 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: Van de Graaff generators | Statement: [John G. Trump, workedOn, Van de Graaff generators]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Van de Graaff generators
Context triple: [John G. Trump, workedOn, Van de Graaff generators]
  • A. Cockcroft–Walton generator
    The Cockcroft–Walton generator is a high-voltage power supply circuit that uses a cascade of capacitors and diodes to multiply an input AC voltage, historically important for early particle acceleration experiments.
  • B. Tesla coil
    The Tesla coil is a high-voltage, high-frequency resonant transformer circuit invented by Nikola Tesla, famous for producing spectacular electrical discharges and demonstrating principles of wireless power transmission.
  • C. Cockcroft–Walton experiment
    The Cockcroft–Walton experiment was a pioneering 1932 nuclear physics experiment that achieved the first artificial disintegration of atomic nuclei using accelerated protons, confirming Einstein’s mass–energy equivalence.
  • D. Maser
    Maser is a small town in the Veneto region of northern Italy, noted for its Renaissance architecture and association with the architect Andrea Palladio.
  • E. Alexanderson alternator
    The Alexanderson alternator is an early high-frequency radio transmitter that generated continuous-wave signals using a rotating machine, playing a key role in long-distance wireless communication before vacuum-tube oscillators.
  • 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: Van de Graaff generators
Triple: [John G. Trump, workedOn, Van de Graaff generators]
Generated description
Van de Graaff generators are electrostatic machines that use a moving belt to accumulate very high voltages on a hollow metal sphere, commonly used for physics research and educational demonstrations of electricity.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Van de Graaff generators
Target entity description: Van de Graaff generators are electrostatic machines that use a moving belt to accumulate very high voltages on a hollow metal sphere, commonly used for physics research and educational demonstrations of electricity.
  • A. Cockcroft–Walton generator
    The Cockcroft–Walton generator is a high-voltage power supply circuit that uses a cascade of capacitors and diodes to multiply an input AC voltage, historically important for early particle acceleration experiments.
  • B. Tesla coil
    The Tesla coil is a high-voltage, high-frequency resonant transformer circuit invented by Nikola Tesla, famous for producing spectacular electrical discharges and demonstrating principles of wireless power transmission.
  • C. Cockcroft–Walton experiment
    The Cockcroft–Walton experiment was a pioneering 1932 nuclear physics experiment that achieved the first artificial disintegration of atomic nuclei using accelerated protons, confirming Einstein’s mass–energy equivalence.
  • D. Maser
    Maser is a small town in the Veneto region of northern Italy, noted for its Renaissance architecture and association with the architect Andrea Palladio.
  • E. Alexanderson alternator
    The Alexanderson alternator is an early high-frequency radio transmitter that generated continuous-wave signals using a rotating machine, playing a key role in long-distance wireless communication before vacuum-tube oscillators.
  • 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_69ad85d512708190829c8b2d3a2ccfb8 completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc0aa0fcc8190bc99df68d2bd9139 completed March 8, 2026, 6:32 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b3bbacbb1081908fc57168a8fc3ade completed March 13, 2026, 7:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b3bf78d6a881908d5bcc4ae50a76e5 completed March 13, 2026, 7:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b3f5b2fdcc8190842d2d7bd09c65c4 completed March 13, 2026, 11:32 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:21 p.m.