Triple

T4094342
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Crank–Nicolson scheme E87777 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object John Crank
John Crank was a British mathematician and physicist best known for co-developing the Crank–Nicolson numerical method for solving partial differential equations.
 E413441 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: John Crank | Statement: [Crank–Nicolson scheme, namedAfter, John Crank]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Crank
Context triple: [Crank–Nicolson scheme, namedAfter, John Crank]
  • A. Robert Leighton
    Robert Leighton is a film editor known for his work on notable movies including the baseball romantic comedy "Bull Durham."
  • B. John Randall
    John Randall was a British physicist and biophysicist known for his leadership in molecular biology research at King's College London, where crucial work on the structure of DNA was carried out.
  • C. W. E. Windus
    W. E. Windus was a British publisher best known as a co-founder of the London publishing house Chatto & Windus.
  • D. George Cowan
    George Cowan was an American physical chemist and philanthropist best known for his work on the Manhattan Project and for founding the interdisciplinary research center, the Santa Fe Institute.
  • E. G. H. Shortley
    G. H. Shortley was a physicist best known for coauthoring the influential quantum mechanics textbook "The Theory of Atomic Spectra" with Edward Condon.
  • 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: John Crank
Triple: [Crank–Nicolson scheme, namedAfter, John Crank]
Generated description
John Crank was a British mathematician and physicist best known for co-developing the Crank–Nicolson numerical method for solving partial differential equations.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: John Crank
Target entity description: John Crank was a British mathematician and physicist best known for co-developing the Crank–Nicolson numerical method for solving partial differential equations.
  • A. Robert Leighton
    Robert Leighton is a film editor known for his work on notable movies including the baseball romantic comedy "Bull Durham."
  • B. John Randall
    John Randall was a British physicist and biophysicist known for his leadership in molecular biology research at King's College London, where crucial work on the structure of DNA was carried out.
  • C. W. E. Windus
    W. E. Windus was a British publisher best known as a co-founder of the London publishing house Chatto & Windus.
  • D. George Cowan
    George Cowan was an American physical chemist and philanthropist best known for his work on the Manhattan Project and for founding the interdisciplinary research center, the Santa Fe Institute.
  • E. G. H. Shortley
    G. H. Shortley was a physicist best known for coauthoring the influential quantum mechanics textbook "The Theory of Atomic Spectra" with Edward Condon.
  • 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_69aed94425148190be337845d56fac22 completed March 9, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aefcdc1ce08190922f55f812b0fda3 completed March 9, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b56b6f8bb081908aa2d126fe3c9502 completed March 14, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b56f3cf1d081908e2fb778433fb2e8 completed March 14, 2026, 2:22 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b56f99d490819093f92b4db63c5375 completed March 14, 2026, 2:24 p.m.
Created at: March 9, 2026, 3:40 p.m.