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]
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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.
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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.
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C.
James Nourse
James Nourse was an 18th-century British sea captain involved in the transatlantic slave trade.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.