Triple

T3633031
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Wood–Anderson torsion seismometer E77001 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object John A. Anderson
John A. Anderson was a seismologist and instrument designer known for co-developing the Wood–Anderson torsion seismometer, an early and influential instrument for measuring earthquake ground motion.
E375609 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: John A. Anderson | Statement: [Wood–Anderson torsion seismometer, namedAfter, John A. Anderson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John A. Anderson
Context triple: [Wood–Anderson torsion seismometer, namedAfter, John A. Anderson]
  • A. George W. Romney
    George W. Romney was an American businessman and Republican politician who served as governor of Michigan in the 1960s and later as U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
  • B. Harold Agnew
    Harold Agnew was an American physicist and weapons designer best known for his role in the Manhattan Project and later as director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
  • C. James Nourse
    James Nourse was an 18th-century British sea captain involved in the transatlantic slave trade.
  • D. Joseph W. Martin Jr.
    Joseph W. Martin Jr. was an American Republican politician from Massachusetts who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and was a prominent congressional leader in the mid-20th century.
  • E. John W. Gardner
    John W. Gardner was an American reformer, educator, and public official best known for serving as U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and for founding the citizens’ advocacy organization Common Cause.
  • 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: John A. Anderson
Triple: [Wood–Anderson torsion seismometer, namedAfter, John A. Anderson]
Generated description
John A. Anderson was a seismologist and instrument designer known for co-developing the Wood–Anderson torsion seismometer, an early and influential instrument for measuring earthquake ground motion.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John A. Anderson
Target entity description: John A. Anderson was a seismologist and instrument designer known for co-developing the Wood–Anderson torsion seismometer, an early and influential instrument for measuring earthquake ground motion.
  • A. George W. Romney
    George W. Romney was an American businessman and Republican politician who served as governor of Michigan in the 1960s and later as U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
  • B. Harold Agnew
    Harold Agnew was an American physicist and weapons designer best known for his role in the Manhattan Project and later as director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
  • C. James Nourse
    James Nourse was an 18th-century British sea captain involved in the transatlantic slave trade.
  • D. Joseph W. Martin Jr.
    Joseph W. Martin Jr. was an American Republican politician from Massachusetts who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and was a prominent congressional leader in the mid-20th century.
  • E. John W. Gardner
    John W. Gardner was an American reformer, educator, and public official best known for serving as U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and for founding the citizens’ advocacy organization Common Cause.
  • 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_69ad85dd0be48190b738990cb20c4731 completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc30457608190840fb5b33f9965c4 completed March 8, 2026, 6:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b44f1af1c48190a72effe80959bfb3 completed March 13, 2026, 5:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4517370888190bd4082420c5d5a32 completed March 13, 2026, 6:03 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b458a3ad2c8190a0b50cc8a31ae5eb completed March 13, 2026, 6:34 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:23 p.m.