Triple
T4066301
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics |
E86330
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableHolder |
P1918
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Brian Pippard |
E62520
|
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: Brian Pippard | Statement: [Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics, notableHolder, Brian Pippard]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brian Pippard Context triple: [Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics, notableHolder, Brian Pippard]
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A.
Brian Pippard
chosen
Brian Pippard was a prominent British physicist known for his pioneering work in superconductivity and for serving as Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge.
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B.
Steve Pugh
Steve Pugh is a British comic book artist best known for his work on titles such as Animal Man, Preacher, and Hotwire.
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C.
Ken Parry
Ken Parry was a British character actor known for his numerous supporting roles in film and television from the 1960s through the 1980s.
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D.
Tim Pugh
Tim Pugh is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who played primarily for the Cincinnati Reds in the early 1990s.
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E.
Geoff Petrie
Geoff Petrie is a former American professional basketball guard best known as an early star for the Portland Trail Blazers and later a longtime NBA executive.
- 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_69aed93c69208190a4efac0efe3cd69b |
completed | March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69aefbf58d9c8190936e453b0d397cb0 |
completed | March 9, 2026, 4:57 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b6721847ec8190bc4307ee958d1096 |
completed | March 15, 2026, 8:47 a.m. |
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:38 p.m.