Triple

T4387343
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject SETI Institute E99276 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object Thomas Pierson
Thomas Pierson is an American nonprofit leader best known for establishing and guiding the SETI Institute, a major center for scientific research on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
E439470 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: Thomas Pierson | Statement: [SETI Institute, founder, Thomas Pierson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Pierson
Context triple: [SETI Institute, founder, Thomas Pierson]
  • A. Anthony Peckham
    Anthony Peckham is a South African–born screenwriter best known for scripting films such as "Invictus" and "Sherlock Holmes."
  • B. Daniel Lothrop
    Daniel Lothrop was a 19th-century American publisher best known for founding the D. Lothrop Company, which specialized in children's and religious literature.
  • C. John Davenport
    John Davenport was a prominent 17th-century English Puritan clergyman and co-founder of the New Haven Colony in New England.
  • D. Gene Milford
    Gene Milford was an American film editor known for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films across several decades.
  • E. Alexander Parris
    Alexander Parris was a prominent 19th-century American architect and engineer best known for his austere Greek Revival and early granite public buildings in New England.
  • 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: Thomas Pierson
Triple: [SETI Institute, founder, Thomas Pierson]
Generated description
Thomas Pierson is an American nonprofit leader best known for establishing and guiding the SETI Institute, a major center for scientific research on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Pierson
Target entity description: Thomas Pierson is an American nonprofit leader best known for establishing and guiding the SETI Institute, a major center for scientific research on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
  • A. Anthony Peckham
    Anthony Peckham is a South African–born screenwriter best known for scripting films such as "Invictus" and "Sherlock Holmes."
  • B. Daniel Lothrop
    Daniel Lothrop was a 19th-century American publisher best known for founding the D. Lothrop Company, which specialized in children's and religious literature.
  • C. John Davenport
    John Davenport was a prominent 17th-century English Puritan clergyman and co-founder of the New Haven Colony in New England.
  • D. Gene Milford
    Gene Milford was an American film editor known for his work on numerous classic Hollywood films across several decades.
  • E. Alexander Parris
    Alexander Parris was a prominent 19th-century American architect and engineer best known for his austere Greek Revival and early granite public buildings in New England.
  • 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_69b3454f739481909ff6c28331f0c0b9 completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b352804be88190ab188ac0dde1ac1e completed March 12, 2026, 11:55 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b6135919d08190abab3858ff01bf11 completed March 15, 2026, 2:03 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69b614371b2081909fabb88f2993dd29 completed March 15, 2026, 2:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69b6155a57c08190bbf2e88f95cede16 completed March 15, 2026, 2:11 a.m.
Created at: March 12, 2026, 11:19 p.m.