Triple

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Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Public Welfare Medal E8 entity
Predicate notableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Neal Lane
Neal Lane is an American physicist and science policy leader who served as Director of the National Science Foundation and later as the White House Science Advisor.
 E875 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: Neal Lane | Statement: [Public Welfare Medal, notableRecipient, Neal Lane]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Neal Lane
Context triple: [Public Welfare Medal, notableRecipient, Neal Lane]
  • A. John V. L. Hogan
    John V. L. Hogan was an American radio engineer and pioneer in early radio technology and broadcasting.
  • B. Harold A. Wheeler
    Harold A. Wheeler was an influential American electrical engineer and inventor known for his pioneering contributions to radio and radar technology.
  • C. Harold Hazen
    Harold Hazen was an American electrical engineer and MIT professor known for his pioneering work in control systems and his role in developing early analog computing devices.
  • D. Rockwell Cage
    Rockwell Cage is an indoor athletic facility at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that serves as the primary venue for the MIT Engineers’ home sports events.
  • E. Detlev W. Bronk
    Detlev W. Bronk was an influential American scientist and educator known as a pioneer of biophysics and a prominent leader in national science policy.
  • 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: Neal Lane
Triple: [Public Welfare Medal, notableRecipient, Neal Lane]
Generated description
Neal Lane is an American physicist and science policy leader who served as Director of the National Science Foundation and later as the White House Science Advisor.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Neal Lane
Target entity description: Neal Lane is an American physicist and science policy leader who served as Director of the National Science Foundation and later as the White House Science Advisor.
  • A. John V. L. Hogan
    John V. L. Hogan was an American radio engineer and pioneer in early radio technology and broadcasting.
  • B. Harold A. Wheeler
    Harold A. Wheeler was an influential American electrical engineer and inventor known for his pioneering contributions to radio and radar technology.
  • C. Harold Hazen
    Harold Hazen was an American electrical engineer and MIT professor known for his pioneering work in control systems and his role in developing early analog computing devices.
  • D. Rockwell Cage
    Rockwell Cage is an indoor athletic facility at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that serves as the primary venue for the MIT Engineers’ home sports events.
  • E. Detlev W. Bronk
    Detlev W. Bronk was an influential American scientist and educator known as a pioneer of biophysics and a prominent leader in national science policy.
  • 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_69a222a954e48190b48f126a67485661 completed Feb. 27, 2026, 11:03 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a22919c9988190aa35ab58627ff950 completed Feb. 27, 2026, 11:30 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a243c57fe481909b6c1b8f41757f96 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:24 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a2463a71188190a7252fae85f68711 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:34 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a246e74bfc8190ba3ea9818a55cc28 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:37 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 27, 2026, 11:04 p.m.