Triple

T421852
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Wistar Institute E8119 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Isaac Jones Wistar
Isaac Jones Wistar was an American lawyer, Civil War general, and philanthropist best known for founding the Wistar Institute, a leading biomedical research center.
E61553 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: Isaac Jones Wistar | Statement: [Wistar Institute, foundedBy, Isaac Jones Wistar]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Isaac Jones Wistar
Context triple: [Wistar Institute, foundedBy, Isaac Jones Wistar]
  • A. Frank B. Jewett
    Frank B. Jewett was an American electrical engineer and physicist who served as the first president of Bell Telephone Laboratories and played a major role in organizing U.S. scientific research during World War II.
  • B. Kenneth Hayes Miller
    Kenneth Hayes Miller was an influential American painter and teacher associated with the Ashcan School, known for his urban genre scenes and for mentoring many prominent 20th-century artists.
  • C. Abraham Flexner
    Abraham Flexner was an American educator and reformer best known for his influential critique of medical education and for helping to shape modern research institutions in the United States.
  • D. John Galen Howard
    John Galen Howard was an influential American architect best known for shaping the early 20th-century architectural landscape of the University of California, Berkeley campus.
  • E. Alexander Lyman Holley
    Alexander Lyman Holley was a prominent 19th-century American mechanical engineer and steel industry pioneer who helped introduce and advance the Bessemer process 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: Isaac Jones Wistar
Triple: [Wistar Institute, foundedBy, Isaac Jones Wistar]
Generated description
Isaac Jones Wistar was an American lawyer, Civil War general, and philanthropist best known for founding the Wistar Institute, a leading biomedical research center.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Isaac Jones Wistar
Target entity description: Isaac Jones Wistar was an American lawyer, Civil War general, and philanthropist best known for founding the Wistar Institute, a leading biomedical research center.
  • A. Frank B. Jewett
    Frank B. Jewett was an American electrical engineer and physicist who served as the first president of Bell Telephone Laboratories and played a major role in organizing U.S. scientific research during World War II.
  • B. Kenneth Hayes Miller
    Kenneth Hayes Miller was an influential American painter and teacher associated with the Ashcan School, known for his urban genre scenes and for mentoring many prominent 20th-century artists.
  • C. Abraham Flexner
    Abraham Flexner was an American educator and reformer best known for his influential critique of medical education and for helping to shape modern research institutions in the United States.
  • D. John Galen Howard
    John Galen Howard was an influential American architect best known for shaping the early 20th-century architectural landscape of the University of California, Berkeley campus.
  • E. Alexander Lyman Holley
    Alexander Lyman Holley was a prominent 19th-century American mechanical engineer and steel industry pioneer who helped introduce and advance the Bessemer process 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_69a2e7f1d1bc81909cf2dc9754a3c334 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2eec0e9dc81908c08b209ce5278ef completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:33 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a47d2668348190a654c9e0c7bf10a1 completed March 1, 2026, 5:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a47dd158b481908d8263371e49d10d completed March 1, 2026, 5:56 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a47e23ac588190a876d45de6821382 completed March 1, 2026, 5:57 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:11 p.m.