Triple

T390708
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University E8872 entity
Predicate hasFaculty P141 FINISHED
Object Howie Choset
Howie Choset is an American roboticist known for his work on snake robots and modular robotics, and a professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
E51688 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: Howie Choset | Statement: [Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, hasFaculty, Howie Choset]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howie Choset
Context triple: [Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, hasFaculty, Howie Choset]
  • A. Rodney Brooks
    Rodney Brooks is an influential roboticist and AI researcher known for pioneering behavior-based robotics and co-founding iRobot and Rethink Robotics.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Curtis Priem
    Curtis Priem is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and early chief technology officer of the graphics processing company NVIDIA.
  • D. Michael Rogers
    Michael Rogers is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
  • E. Michael V. Drake
    Michael V. Drake is an American academic leader and physician who has served as president of both The Ohio State University and the University of California system.
  • 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: Howie Choset
Triple: [Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, hasFaculty, Howie Choset]
Generated description
Howie Choset is an American roboticist known for his work on snake robots and modular robotics, and a professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Howie Choset
Target entity description: Howie Choset is an American roboticist known for his work on snake robots and modular robotics, and a professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
  • A. Rodney Brooks
    Rodney Brooks is an influential roboticist and AI researcher known for pioneering behavior-based robotics and co-founding iRobot and Rethink Robotics.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Curtis Priem
    Curtis Priem is an American engineer and entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and early chief technology officer of the graphics processing company NVIDIA.
  • D. Michael Rogers
    Michael Rogers is a relatively common personal name shared by multiple individuals across fields such as politics, sports, and the arts, rather than referring to one singular widely recognized figure.
  • E. Michael V. Drake
    Michael V. Drake is an American academic leader and physician who has served as president of both The Ohio State University and the University of California system.
  • 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_69a2ec5d73e881909101308a583c8f13 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:23 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a41772e19c8190b02a212f13b4d8aa completed March 1, 2026, 10:39 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a417d8d8ac8190b9e36238b7bd9132 completed March 1, 2026, 10:41 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4184c1b1c8190b728a2ef5cdc8346 completed March 1, 2026, 10:43 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:08 p.m.