Triple
T4381585
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Ralph Merkle |
E99141
|
entity |
| Predicate | coInventedWith |
P1858
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Whitfield Diffie |
E1097
|
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: Whitfield Diffie | Statement: [Ralph Merkle, coInventedWith, Whitfield Diffie]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Whitfield Diffie Context triple: [Ralph Merkle, coInventedWith, Whitfield Diffie]
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A.
Whitfield Diffie
chosen
Whitfield Diffie is an American cryptographer best known as a pioneer of public-key cryptography, whose work revolutionized secure digital communication.
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B.
Martin Hellman
Martin Hellman is an American cryptologist best known as a co-inventor of public-key cryptography, which revolutionized secure digital communication.
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C.
Ralph Merkle
Ralph Merkle is an American computer scientist and cryptographer known as a pioneer of public-key cryptography and for contributions such as Merkle trees and Merkle–Damgård hashing.
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D.
Ronald L. Rivest
Ronald L. Rivest is an American cryptographer and computer scientist best known as one of the co-inventors of the RSA public-key cryptosystem and a pioneer in modern cryptography.
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E.
Phillip Rogaway
Phillip Rogaway is a prominent cryptographer known for his influential work on the theory and practice of encryption and for advocating the ethical and social responsibilities of cryptography.
- 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_69b3454ea8f48190a49c2436624d6ef6 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69b352613dd481909e008a8db239a108 |
completed | March 12, 2026, 11:55 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69b5f5e210108190bf14731ce3774b6b |
completed | March 14, 2026, 11:57 p.m. |
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:18 p.m.