Triple

T3908069
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Martin Ryle E87252 entity
Predicate hasAcademicAdvisor P167 FINISHED
Object Edward Victor Appleton
Edward Victor Appleton was a British physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering research on the ionosphere and radio wave propagation.
E397271 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: Edward Victor Appleton | Statement: [Martin Ryle, hasAcademicAdvisor, Edward Victor Appleton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward Victor Appleton
Context triple: [Martin Ryle, hasAcademicAdvisor, Edward Victor Appleton]
  • A. Arthur E. Kennelly
    Arthur E. Kennelly was a prominent electrical engineer and physicist known for his pioneering work in alternating current theory and radio science.
  • B. Harold Spencer Jones
    Harold Spencer Jones was a prominent 20th-century British astronomer who served as the last Astronomer Royal to be responsible for the Royal Greenwich Observatory and made significant contributions to positional astronomy and the determination of the astronomical unit.
  • C. William Henry Pickering
    William Henry Pickering was an American astronomer known for his discoveries of planetary satellites and contributions to lunar and planetary observation.
  • D. A. Langley
    A. Langley is a computer security and cryptography expert known for contributions to modern internet security protocols and standards.
  • E. Alexander D. Langmuir
    Alexander D. Langmuir was an influential American epidemiologist who helped shape modern disease surveillance and public health training in the United States.
  • 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: Edward Victor Appleton
Triple: [Martin Ryle, hasAcademicAdvisor, Edward Victor Appleton]
Generated description
Edward Victor Appleton was a British physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering research on the ionosphere and radio wave propagation.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Edward Victor Appleton
Target entity description: Edward Victor Appleton was a British physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering research on the ionosphere and radio wave propagation.
  • A. Arthur E. Kennelly
    Arthur E. Kennelly was a prominent electrical engineer and physicist known for his pioneering work in alternating current theory and radio science.
  • B. Harold Spencer Jones
    Harold Spencer Jones was a prominent 20th-century British astronomer who served as the last Astronomer Royal to be responsible for the Royal Greenwich Observatory and made significant contributions to positional astronomy and the determination of the astronomical unit.
  • C. William Henry Pickering
    William Henry Pickering was an American astronomer known for his discoveries of planetary satellites and contributions to lunar and planetary observation.
  • D. A. Langley
    A. Langley is a computer security and cryptography expert known for contributions to modern internet security protocols and standards.
  • E. Alexander D. Langmuir
    Alexander D. Langmuir was an influential American epidemiologist who helped shape modern disease surveillance and public health training in the United States.
  • 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_69aed9424514819086e9c58adde6652d completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aeed13bb14819096842c6c82342524 completed March 9, 2026, 3:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b51caf41c881909c5156480b46e794 completed March 14, 2026, 8:30 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b51dab33488190b8e09ec26251a469 completed March 14, 2026, 8:34 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b51e0e9df08190959bc5cb7084d8a5 completed March 14, 2026, 8:36 a.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:22 p.m.