Triple
T4022340
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Beckman Instruments |
E91306
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasKeyPerson |
P256
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Arnold O. Beckman |
E73549
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Arnold O. Beckman | Statement: [Beckman Instruments, hasKeyPerson, Arnold O. Beckman]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Arnold O. Beckman Context triple: [Beckman Instruments, hasKeyPerson, Arnold O. Beckman]
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A.
Arnold O. Beckman
chosen
Arnold O. Beckman was an American chemist, inventor, and philanthropist best known for developing the pH meter and founding Beckman Instruments, which significantly advanced scientific instrumentation.
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B.
Frederick Seitz
Frederick Seitz was an influential American physicist and solid-state physics pioneer who served as president of the National Academy of Sciences and Rockefeller University.
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C.
Melvin Wydler
Melvin Wydler was a U.S. Congressman whose legislative work on technology and innovation policy led to a federal law being named in his honor.
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D.
Edward Levi
Edward Levi was an American legal scholar and former president of the University of Chicago who served as U.S. Attorney General, where he is credited with restoring integrity to the Justice Department after the Watergate scandal.
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E.
Gilbert N. Lewis
Gilbert N. Lewis was an influential American physical chemist best known for his work on chemical bonding, the electron-pair theory, and the concept of acids and bases that bear his name.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69aed9618b04819081750d979d2af098 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69aefaccb2f48190a16a1ba6e938da85 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 4:52 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b562922a8c8190b4090f734c11cebb |
completed | March 14, 2026, 1:28 p.m. |
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:35 p.m.