Triple

T3670866
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Joseph Needham E77874 entity
Predicate spouse P13 FINISHED
Object Dorothy Moyle Needham
Dorothy Moyle Needham was a British biochemist known for her pioneering research on muscle physiology and carbohydrate metabolism.
E376863 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: Dorothy Moyle Needham | Statement: [Joseph Needham, spouse, Dorothy Moyle Needham]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dorothy Moyle Needham
Context triple: [Joseph Needham, spouse, Dorothy Moyle Needham]
  • A. Cordelia Whewell
    Cordelia Whewell was the wife of 19th-century English polymath and philosopher William Whewell, known primarily through her marriage into his intellectual and academic circle.
  • B. Margaret Hodgkin
    Margaret Hodgkin is a notable individual who shares the distinguished Hodgkin surname, recognized among bearers of that name.
  • C. Frances H. Townes
    Frances H. Townes was the wife of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Charles Hard Townes and a partner in his scientific and personal life, known for her support of his career and their shared involvement in academic and community activities.
  • D. Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick
    Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick was a British educational reformer, principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, and prominent psychical researcher known for her work with the Society for Psychical Research.
  • E. Dorothy Mary Crowfoot
    Dorothy Mary Crowfoot was a pioneering British chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for advancing X-ray crystallography and determining the structures of important biomolecules such as penicillin, vitamin B12, and insulin.
  • 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: Dorothy Moyle Needham
Triple: [Joseph Needham, spouse, Dorothy Moyle Needham]
Generated description
Dorothy Moyle Needham was a British biochemist known for her pioneering research on muscle physiology and carbohydrate metabolism.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dorothy Moyle Needham
Target entity description: Dorothy Moyle Needham was a British biochemist known for her pioneering research on muscle physiology and carbohydrate metabolism.
  • A. Cordelia Whewell
    Cordelia Whewell was the wife of 19th-century English polymath and philosopher William Whewell, known primarily through her marriage into his intellectual and academic circle.
  • B. Margaret Hodgkin
    Margaret Hodgkin is a notable individual who shares the distinguished Hodgkin surname, recognized among bearers of that name.
  • C. Frances H. Townes
    Frances H. Townes was the wife of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Charles Hard Townes and a partner in his scientific and personal life, known for her support of his career and their shared involvement in academic and community activities.
  • D. Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick
    Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick was a British educational reformer, principal of Newnham College, Cambridge, and prominent psychical researcher known for her work with the Society for Psychical Research.
  • E. Dorothy Mary Crowfoot
    Dorothy Mary Crowfoot was a pioneering British chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for advancing X-ray crystallography and determining the structures of important biomolecules such as penicillin, vitamin B12, and insulin.
  • 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_69ad85e083008190b2e1b7085fe500bd completed March 8, 2026, 2:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adc42c96648190abbd5d23b25d6a6b completed March 8, 2026, 6:47 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b48850515c8190bdb9ddcfc0a13f4e completed March 13, 2026, 9:57 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b48b55ad8081909166e7418cdf0f06 completed March 13, 2026, 10:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b48e1ff9fc8190bb2559b9e55ea2b8 completed March 13, 2026, 10:22 p.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:25 p.m.