Triple
T368114
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | IEEE Photonics Award |
E8207
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableRecipient |
P108
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Shuji Nakamura
Shuji Nakamura is a Japanese-American engineer and physicist best known for inventing the efficient blue LED, a breakthrough that enabled modern white LED lighting and earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics.
|
E47028
|
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: Shuji Nakamura | Statement: [IEEE Photonics Award, notableRecipient, Shuji Nakamura]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shuji Nakamura Context triple: [IEEE Photonics Award, notableRecipient, Shuji Nakamura]
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A.
Isamu Akasaki
Isamu Akasaki was a Japanese physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for pioneering the development of efficient blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs), which revolutionized lighting and display technologies.
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B.
Nick Holonyak Jr.
Nick Holonyak Jr. was an American engineer and inventor best known for creating the first practical visible-spectrum LED, earning him recognition as a pioneer in semiconductor lighting technology.
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C.
Leo Esaki
Leo Esaki is a Japanese physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on quantum tunneling and the invention of the Esaki (tunnel) diode.
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D.
Charles K. Kao
Charles K. Kao was a pioneering physicist and electrical engineer known as the "father of fiber optics" for his groundbreaking work enabling high-speed optical fiber communications.
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E.
William Shockley
William Shockley was an American physicist and co-inventor of the transistor whose work helped launch the field of solid-state electronics and earned him a share of the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics.
- 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: Shuji Nakamura Triple: [IEEE Photonics Award, notableRecipient, Shuji Nakamura]
Generated description
Shuji Nakamura is a Japanese-American engineer and physicist best known for inventing the efficient blue LED, a breakthrough that enabled modern white LED lighting and earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shuji Nakamura Target entity description: Shuji Nakamura is a Japanese-American engineer and physicist best known for inventing the efficient blue LED, a breakthrough that enabled modern white LED lighting and earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics.
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A.
Isamu Akasaki
Isamu Akasaki was a Japanese physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for pioneering the development of efficient blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs), which revolutionized lighting and display technologies.
-
B.
Nick Holonyak Jr.
Nick Holonyak Jr. was an American engineer and inventor best known for creating the first practical visible-spectrum LED, earning him recognition as a pioneer in semiconductor lighting technology.
-
C.
Leo Esaki
Leo Esaki is a Japanese physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on quantum tunneling and the invention of the Esaki (tunnel) diode.
-
D.
Charles K. Kao
Charles K. Kao was a pioneering physicist and electrical engineer known as the "father of fiber optics" for his groundbreaking work enabling high-speed optical fiber communications.
-
E.
William Shockley
William Shockley was an American physicist and co-inventor of the transistor whose work helped launch the field of solid-state electronics and earned him a share of the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics.
- 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_69a2e7f2ec648190b42bc7db424f8109 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a2ebeab13c8190b15c2f10310ec6a8 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 1:21 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a3f0a5e5dc81909363a31e9b713368 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:54 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69a3f128b6008190afacdb055a84a9c4 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:56 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69a3f181e55c8190a3995775ff6ceeb9 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:57 a.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.