Triple

T3777636
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject CT scanner E83345 entity
Predicate inventedBy P632 FINISHED
Object Godfrey Hounsfield
Godfrey Hounsfield was a British electrical engineer and Nobel Prize–winning inventor best known for pioneering X-ray computed tomography, leading to the development of the modern CT scanner.
E387402 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: Godfrey Hounsfield | Statement: [CT scanner, inventedBy, Godfrey Hounsfield]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Godfrey Hounsfield
Context triple: [CT scanner, inventedBy, Godfrey Hounsfield]
  • A. Willard Boyle
    Willard Boyle was a Canadian physicist and Nobel laureate best known for co-inventing the charge-coupled device (CCD), a technology fundamental to digital imaging.
  • B. Martin Ryle
    Martin Ryle was a pioneering British radio astronomer and Nobel laureate whose development of aperture synthesis revolutionized observational astronomy.
  • C. William Hodgkin
    William Hodgkin is a notable individual who shares the distinguished Hodgkin surname, recognized for its association with prominent figures in medicine and science.
  • D. D. Gabor
    D. Gabor was a Hungarian-British physicist and electrical engineer best known for inventing holography and receiving the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics.
  • E. Arthur Geoffrey Walker
    Arthur Geoffrey Walker was a British mathematician and physicist best known for his foundational contributions to relativistic cosmology, particularly the development of the Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker (FLRW) metric.
  • 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: Godfrey Hounsfield
Triple: [CT scanner, inventedBy, Godfrey Hounsfield]
Generated description
Godfrey Hounsfield was a British electrical engineer and Nobel Prize–winning inventor best known for pioneering X-ray computed tomography, leading to the development of the modern CT scanner.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Godfrey Hounsfield
Target entity description: Godfrey Hounsfield was a British electrical engineer and Nobel Prize–winning inventor best known for pioneering X-ray computed tomography, leading to the development of the modern CT scanner.
  • A. Willard Boyle
    Willard Boyle was a Canadian physicist and Nobel laureate best known for co-inventing the charge-coupled device (CCD), a technology fundamental to digital imaging.
  • B. Martin Ryle
    Martin Ryle was a pioneering British radio astronomer and Nobel laureate whose development of aperture synthesis revolutionized observational astronomy.
  • C. William Hodgkin
    William Hodgkin is a notable individual who shares the distinguished Hodgkin surname, recognized for its association with prominent figures in medicine and science.
  • D. D. Gabor
    D. Gabor was a Hungarian-British physicist and electrical engineer best known for inventing holography and receiving the 1971 Nobel Prize in Physics.
  • E. Arthur Geoffrey Walker
    Arthur Geoffrey Walker was a British mathematician and physicist best known for his foundational contributions to relativistic cosmology, particularly the development of the Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker (FLRW) metric.
  • 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_69ad8b235e608190b5a2b1d1bfcef50b completed March 8, 2026, 2:43 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69adcc5d3dbc8190b6ab118a56acd5a3 completed March 8, 2026, 7:22 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b4e534a02c8190b8dd76ed965f393f completed March 14, 2026, 4:33 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b4e6b1cefc8190971e9441dc145e19 completed March 14, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b4ea8b9d2c819088db1fdf9dc90c0c completed March 14, 2026, 4:56 a.m.
Created at: March 8, 2026, 3:36 p.m.