Triple
T3670876
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Joseph Needham |
E77874
|
entity |
| Predicate | awardReceived |
P11
|
FINISHED |
| Object | George Sarton Medal |
E138813
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: George Sarton Medal | Statement: [Joseph Needham, awardReceived, George Sarton Medal]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Sarton Medal Context triple: [Joseph Needham, awardReceived, George Sarton Medal]
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A.
George Sarton Medal
chosen
The George Sarton Medal is a prestigious lifetime achievement award in the history of science, presented by the History of Science Society to scholars for outstanding scholarly contributions to the field.
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B.
Derek de Solla Price Memorial Medal
The Derek de Solla Price Memorial Medal is a prestigious international award in scientometrics and informetrics, recognizing outstanding contributions to the quantitative study of science and scholarly communication.
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C.
Wilhelm Exner Medal
The Wilhelm Exner Medal is a prestigious Austrian award honoring scientists and inventors whose research has had significant practical impact on industry and the economy.
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D.
Frederic Ives Medal
The Frederic Ives Medal is a prestigious award in the field of optics, presented by the Optical Society of America to honor outstanding contributions to the science of optics.
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E.
Gregori Aminoff Prize
The Gregori Aminoff Prize is a prestigious Swedish scientific award recognizing outstanding contributions to the field of crystallography.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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. |
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:25 p.m.