Triple

T368119
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject IEEE Photonics Award E8207 entity
Predicate notableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object David N. Payne
David N. Payne is a British physicist renowned for pioneering work in optical fiber and photonics, including key contributions to the development of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers used in modern telecommunications.
E57549 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: David N. Payne | Statement: [IEEE Photonics Award, notableRecipient, David N. Payne]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David N. Payne
Context triple: [IEEE Photonics Award, notableRecipient, David N. Payne]
  • A. Bruce T. Draine
    Bruce T. Draine is an American astrophysicist renowned for his influential work on interstellar dust and the interstellar medium.
  • B. Michael V. Drake
    Michael V. Drake is an American academic leader and physician who has served as president of both The Ohio State University and the University of California system.
  • C. Dorion Sagan
    Dorion Sagan is an American science writer and essayist known for his works on evolution, ecology, and complexity, and for coauthoring influential books with his mother, biologist Lynn Margulis.
  • D. David G. Bradley
    David G. Bradley is an American businessman and publisher best known as the owner and longtime chairman of Atlantic Media, the parent company of The Atlantic.
  • E. John Stephens
    John Stephens is an author best known for writing the children's fantasy novel "The Emerald Atlas" and its sequels in the Books of Beginning series.
  • 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: David N. Payne
Triple: [IEEE Photonics Award, notableRecipient, David N. Payne]
Generated description
David N. Payne is a British physicist renowned for pioneering work in optical fiber and photonics, including key contributions to the development of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers used in modern telecommunications.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David N. Payne
Target entity description: David N. Payne is a British physicist renowned for pioneering work in optical fiber and photonics, including key contributions to the development of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers used in modern telecommunications.
  • A. Bruce T. Draine
    Bruce T. Draine is an American astrophysicist renowned for his influential work on interstellar dust and the interstellar medium.
  • B. Michael V. Drake
    Michael V. Drake is an American academic leader and physician who has served as president of both The Ohio State University and the University of California system.
  • C. Dorion Sagan
    Dorion Sagan is an American science writer and essayist known for his works on evolution, ecology, and complexity, and for coauthoring influential books with his mother, biologist Lynn Margulis.
  • D. David G. Bradley
    David G. Bradley is an American businessman and publisher best known as the owner and longtime chairman of Atlantic Media, the parent company of The Atlantic.
  • E. John Stephens
    John Stephens is an author best known for writing the children's fantasy novel "The Emerald Atlas" and its sequels in the Books of Beginning series.
  • 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_69a44f5030f481908af8aa1d361b8124 completed March 1, 2026, 2:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a450099260819085493682035fc1c1 completed March 1, 2026, 2:41 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4506406dc8190ba3d4e54c409051b completed March 1, 2026, 2:42 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.