Triple

T364398
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Herbrand Award E7926 entity
Predicate notableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Robert S. Boyer
Robert S. Boyer is an American computer scientist and logician known for his pioneering work in automated theorem proving and formal methods in software verification.
E156763 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 S. Boyer | Statement: [Herbrand Award, notableRecipient, Robert S. Boyer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert S. Boyer
Context triple: [Herbrand Award, notableRecipient, Robert S. Boyer]
  • A. Alan S. Boyd
    Alan S. Boyd was an American lawyer and public official who became the first U.S. Secretary of Transportation, helping to shape national transportation policy in the late 1960s.
  • B. Robert H. Richards
    Robert H. Richards was a prominent American mining engineer and metallurgist known for pioneering work in ore dressing and mineral processing.
  • C. Harold A. Wheeler
    Harold A. Wheeler was an influential American electrical engineer and inventor known for his pioneering contributions to radio and radar technology.
  • D. Robert B. Hotz
    Robert B. Hotz was an American aviation journalist and editor known for his expertise in aerospace and defense, who served on the presidential Rogers Commission investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
  • E. Robert F. Ritt
    Robert F. Ritt was an American mathematician known for his foundational work in differential algebra and contributions to the theory of differential equations.
  • 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 S. Boyer
Triple: [Herbrand Award, notableRecipient, Robert S. Boyer]
Generated description
Robert S. Boyer is an American computer scientist and logician known for his pioneering work in automated theorem proving and formal methods in software verification.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert S. Boyer
Target entity description: Robert S. Boyer is an American computer scientist and logician known for his pioneering work in automated theorem proving and formal methods in software verification.
  • A. Alan S. Boyd
    Alan S. Boyd was an American lawyer and public official who became the first U.S. Secretary of Transportation, helping to shape national transportation policy in the late 1960s.
  • B. Robert H. Richards
    Robert H. Richards was a prominent American mining engineer and metallurgist known for pioneering work in ore dressing and mineral processing.
  • C. Harold A. Wheeler
    Harold A. Wheeler was an influential American electrical engineer and inventor known for his pioneering contributions to radio and radar technology.
  • D. Robert B. Hotz
    Robert B. Hotz was an American aviation journalist and editor known for his expertise in aerospace and defense, who served on the presidential Rogers Commission investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
  • E. Robert F. Ritt
    Robert F. Ritt was an American mathematician known for his foundational work in differential algebra and contributions to the theory of differential equations.
  • 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_69a2e7e880008190a6ad7e06e5d03007 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ebe6c1b4819083335e880c205ed6 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acce4b94d08190b7747b0b6d61e3e1 completed March 8, 2026, 1:18 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69accf3931bc81908e38755e2d024270 completed March 8, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69accfb8acfc8190bba379d8bb114c29 completed March 8, 2026, 1:24 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.