Triple
T375093
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Chern Medal |
E8354
|
entity |
| Predicate | namedAfter |
P63
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Shiing-Shen Chern
Shiing-Shen Chern was a Chinese-American mathematician renowned for his foundational contributions to differential geometry and the development of Chern classes in topology.
|
E47895
|
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: Shiing-Shen Chern | Statement: [Chern Medal, namedAfter, Shiing-Shen Chern]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shiing-Shen Chern Context triple: [Chern Medal, namedAfter, Shiing-Shen Chern]
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A.
Isadore Singer
Isadore Singer was an American mathematician renowned for co-formulating the Atiyah–Singer Index Theorem, a foundational result linking analysis, topology, and geometry.
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B.
Élie Cartan
Élie Cartan was a pioneering French mathematician renowned for his foundational work in differential geometry, Lie groups, and the theory of symmetric spaces.
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C.
Hermann Weyl
Hermann Weyl was a German mathematician and theoretical physicist renowned for his foundational contributions to group theory, differential geometry, and the mathematical formulation of gauge theory in modern physics.
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D.
Richard Courant
Richard Courant was a German-American mathematician known for his influential work in analysis and partial differential equations and for co-founding the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University.
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E.
Constantin Carathéodory
Constantin Carathéodory was a prominent Greek-German mathematician known for his influential work in real analysis, the calculus of variations, and the foundations of thermodynamics.
- 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: Shiing-Shen Chern Triple: [Chern Medal, namedAfter, Shiing-Shen Chern]
Generated description
Shiing-Shen Chern was a Chinese-American mathematician renowned for his foundational contributions to differential geometry and the development of Chern classes in topology.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Shiing-Shen Chern Target entity description: Shiing-Shen Chern was a Chinese-American mathematician renowned for his foundational contributions to differential geometry and the development of Chern classes in topology.
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A.
Isadore Singer
Isadore Singer was an American mathematician renowned for co-formulating the Atiyah–Singer Index Theorem, a foundational result linking analysis, topology, and geometry.
-
B.
Élie Cartan
Élie Cartan was a pioneering French mathematician renowned for his foundational work in differential geometry, Lie groups, and the theory of symmetric spaces.
-
C.
Hermann Weyl
Hermann Weyl was a German mathematician and theoretical physicist renowned for his foundational contributions to group theory, differential geometry, and the mathematical formulation of gauge theory in modern physics.
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D.
Richard Courant
Richard Courant was a German-American mathematician known for his influential work in analysis and partial differential equations and for co-founding the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University.
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E.
Constantin Carathéodory
Constantin Carathéodory was a prominent Greek-German mathematician known for his influential work in real analysis, the calculus of variations, and the foundations of thermodynamics.
- 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_69a2ec1585648190943f1c698e9b2d81 |
completed | Feb. 28, 2026, 1:22 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a3f4dbf49081908ccd464668483b77 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 8:12 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69a3f6d18c488190ab509ded4d5b0367 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 8:20 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69a3fa368edc8190ac00be2189df7cf9 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 8:35 a.m. |
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.