Triple

T368151
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject IEEE Robotics and Automation Award E8208 entity
Predicate notableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Rodney Brooks
Rodney Brooks is an influential roboticist and AI researcher known for pioneering behavior-based robotics and co-founding iRobot and Rethink Robotics.
E50125 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: Rodney Brooks | Statement: [IEEE Robotics and Automation Award, notableRecipient, Rodney Brooks]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rodney Brooks
Context triple: [IEEE Robotics and Automation Award, notableRecipient, Rodney Brooks]
  • A. Sebastian Thrun
    Sebastian Thrun is a German-American computer scientist, roboticist, and entrepreneur best known for pioneering work in self-driving cars, founding Google X and Udacity, and advancing artificial intelligence and online education.
  • B. Ray Kurzweil
    Ray Kurzweil is an American inventor, futurist, and author known for his pioneering work in fields such as optical character recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, and artificial intelligence, as well as his predictions about technological singularity.
  • C. Hal Abelson
    Hal Abelson is an American computer scientist and MIT professor known for his pioneering work in computer science education, open knowledge, and software freedom.
  • D. Nicholas Negroponte
    Nicholas Negroponte is an American architect and technology visionary best known as the founding director of the MIT Media Lab and a prominent advocate for the digital revolution.
  • E. Marvin Minsky
    Marvin Minsky was an American cognitive scientist and pioneering artificial intelligence researcher who co-founded MIT's AI Laboratory and made foundational contributions to the theory and philosophy of AI.
  • 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: Rodney Brooks
Triple: [IEEE Robotics and Automation Award, notableRecipient, Rodney Brooks]
Generated description
Rodney Brooks is an influential roboticist and AI researcher known for pioneering behavior-based robotics and co-founding iRobot and Rethink Robotics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Rodney Brooks
Target entity description: Rodney Brooks is an influential roboticist and AI researcher known for pioneering behavior-based robotics and co-founding iRobot and Rethink Robotics.
  • A. Sebastian Thrun
    Sebastian Thrun is a German-American computer scientist, roboticist, and entrepreneur best known for pioneering work in self-driving cars, founding Google X and Udacity, and advancing artificial intelligence and online education.
  • B. Ray Kurzweil
    Ray Kurzweil is an American inventor, futurist, and author known for his pioneering work in fields such as optical character recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, and artificial intelligence, as well as his predictions about technological singularity.
  • C. Hal Abelson
    Hal Abelson is an American computer scientist and MIT professor known for his pioneering work in computer science education, open knowledge, and software freedom.
  • D. Nicholas Negroponte
    Nicholas Negroponte is an American architect and technology visionary best known as the founding director of the MIT Media Lab and a prominent advocate for the digital revolution.
  • E. Marvin Minsky
    Marvin Minsky was an American cognitive scientist and pioneering artificial intelligence researcher who co-founded MIT's AI Laboratory and made foundational contributions to the theory and philosophy of AI.
  • 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_69a40ad03f5c819085d2c7686f4d2809 completed March 1, 2026, 9:45 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a40b36392c8190a771f3d6f9e97fc1 completed March 1, 2026, 9:47 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a40b8d85048190807a1af077e6431f completed March 1, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.