Triple

T387124
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Institute for Advanced Study E8802 entity
Predicate notableScholar P22 FINISHED
Object Oswald Veblen
Oswald Veblen was an American mathematician known for his foundational work in topology and geometry and for helping to shape the early development of the Institute for Advanced Study.
 E51030 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: Oswald Veblen | Statement: [Institute for Advanced Study, notableScholar, Oswald Veblen]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Oswald Veblen
Context triple: [Institute for Advanced Study, notableScholar, Oswald Veblen]
  • A. Albert W. Tucker
    Albert W. Tucker was a Canadian-born American mathematician best known for his influential work in game theory and topology, including formulating the Prisoner’s Dilemma and mentoring John Nash.
  • B. Harold Hotelling
    Harold Hotelling was an influential American statistician and economist known for pioneering work in mathematical economics, statistical theory, and multivariate analysis, including the development of Hotelling’s T-squared distribution and principal component analysis.
  • C. Howard P. Robertson
    Howard P. Robertson was an American mathematician and physicist known for his foundational contributions to relativistic cosmology and the formulation of the Robertson–Walker metric used in modern cosmological models.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Percy W. Bridgman
    Percy W. Bridgman was an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in high-pressure physics and for developing the philosophical approach known as operationalism.
  • 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: Oswald Veblen
Triple: [Institute for Advanced Study, notableScholar, Oswald Veblen]
Generated description
Oswald Veblen was an American mathematician known for his foundational work in topology and geometry and for helping to shape the early development of the Institute for Advanced Study.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Oswald Veblen
Target entity description: Oswald Veblen was an American mathematician known for his foundational work in topology and geometry and for helping to shape the early development of the Institute for Advanced Study.
  • A. Albert W. Tucker
    Albert W. Tucker was a Canadian-born American mathematician best known for his influential work in game theory and topology, including formulating the Prisoner’s Dilemma and mentoring John Nash.
  • B. Harold Hotelling
    Harold Hotelling was an influential American statistician and economist known for pioneering work in mathematical economics, statistical theory, and multivariate analysis, including the development of Hotelling’s T-squared distribution and principal component analysis.
  • C. Howard P. Robertson
    Howard P. Robertson was an American mathematician and physicist known for his foundational contributions to relativistic cosmology and the formulation of the Robertson–Walker metric used in modern cosmological models.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Percy W. Bridgman
    Percy W. Bridgman was an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in high-pressure physics and for developing the philosophical approach known as operationalism.
  • 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_69a2e7f55c60819097aff65ea2ca2832 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ee2b0ec481908fac41a4e1d20468 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:31 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a4103bcd788190bbbe4ddf8f71171a completed March 1, 2026, 10:09 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a41108fce081908efb6b08dc0a7a63 completed March 1, 2026, 10:12 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4134170008190a5a7d9567de6cc09 completed March 1, 2026, 10:21 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.