Triple

T3725813
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lyman family E81745 entity
Predicate hasNotableMember P304 FINISHED
Object Theodore Lyman (scientist)
Theodore Lyman was an American physicist best known for discovering the Lyman series of ultraviolet spectral lines of hydrogen, which played a key role in the development of quantum theory.
E381674 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: Theodore Lyman (scientist) | Statement: [Lyman family, hasNotableMember, Theodore Lyman (scientist)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Theodore Lyman (scientist)
Context triple: [Lyman family, hasNotableMember, Theodore Lyman (scientist)]
  • A. Samuel DeWitt Proctor
    Samuel DeWitt Proctor was an influential American Baptist minister, educator, and civil rights leader who served as a prominent pastor and public intellectual in the mid-20th century.
  • B. Frank B. Jewett
    Frank B. Jewett was an American electrical engineer and physicist who served as the first president of Bell Telephone Laboratories and played a major role in organizing U.S. scientific research during World War II.
  • C. Lyman Cornelius Smith
    Lyman Cornelius Smith was an American industrialist and entrepreneur best known for his role in the typewriter and firearms industries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. William Barton Rogers
    William Barton Rogers was a 19th-century American geologist and educator best known for establishing the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and shaping its practical, science-focused educational philosophy.
  • E. Dr. Emlen Physick Jr.
    Dr. Emlen Physick Jr. was a 19th-century physician and member of a prominent Philadelphia family who became known as the original owner and resident of the now-historic Victorian Emlen Physick Estate in Cape May, New Jersey.
  • 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: Theodore Lyman (scientist)
Triple: [Lyman family, hasNotableMember, Theodore Lyman (scientist)]
Generated description
Theodore Lyman was an American physicist best known for discovering the Lyman series of ultraviolet spectral lines of hydrogen, which played a key role in the development of quantum theory.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Theodore Lyman (scientist)
Target entity description: Theodore Lyman was an American physicist best known for discovering the Lyman series of ultraviolet spectral lines of hydrogen, which played a key role in the development of quantum theory.
  • A. Samuel DeWitt Proctor
    Samuel DeWitt Proctor was an influential American Baptist minister, educator, and civil rights leader who served as a prominent pastor and public intellectual in the mid-20th century.
  • B. Frank B. Jewett
    Frank B. Jewett was an American electrical engineer and physicist who served as the first president of Bell Telephone Laboratories and played a major role in organizing U.S. scientific research during World War II.
  • C. Lyman Cornelius Smith
    Lyman Cornelius Smith was an American industrialist and entrepreneur best known for his role in the typewriter and firearms industries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. William Barton Rogers
    William Barton Rogers was a 19th-century American geologist and educator best known for establishing the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and shaping its practical, science-focused educational philosophy.
  • E. Dr. Emlen Physick Jr.
    Dr. Emlen Physick Jr. was a 19th-century physician and member of a prominent Philadelphia family who became known as the original owner and resident of the now-historic Victorian Emlen Physick Estate in Cape May, New Jersey.
  • 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_69ad8b1b7ef081908d2d381bbf54985a completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adcaf669d48190852aaeef70265404 completed March 8, 2026, 7:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4ce206cb88190985a727b769e1e12 completed March 14, 2026, 2:55 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4cf1840bc81908a85642430ab5339 completed March 14, 2026, 2:59 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4cf92e9c48190a3d87ba1f90548ec completed March 14, 2026, 3:01 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:34 p.m.