Triple

T4428374
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award E95263 entity
Predicate hasNotableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Jerome Y. Lettvin
Jerome Y. Lettvin was an influential American neuroscientist and MIT professor best known for his pioneering work on how the nervous system processes visual information, including the landmark paper “What the frog’s eye tells the frog’s brain.”
 E439588 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: Jerome Y. Lettvin | Statement: [James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award, hasNotableRecipient, Jerome Y. Lettvin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Jerome Y. Lettvin
Context triple: [James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award, hasNotableRecipient, Jerome Y. Lettvin]
  • A. Walter Rosenblith
    Walter Rosenblith was a prominent biophysicist and neuroscientist who became a key figure at MIT, notably serving as provost and helping shape the institute’s postwar research and academic directions.
  • B. Leo Beranek
    Leo Beranek was an American acoustics expert, engineer, and entrepreneur known for his pioneering work in architectural acoustics and co-founding the influential technology company Bolt Beranek and Newman.
  • C. Alan S. Willsky
    Alan S. Willsky is an American electrical engineer and MIT professor emeritus renowned for his contributions to statistical signal processing and control theory.
  • D. Paul E. Gray
    Paul E. Gray was an American electrical engineer and educator who served as president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and was known for advancing engineering education and university–industry collaboration.
  • E. Norbert Wiener
    Norbert Wiener was an American mathematician and philosopher best known as the founder of cybernetics and for his pioneering work in stochastic processes and harmonic analysis.
  • 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: Jerome Y. Lettvin
Triple: [James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award, hasNotableRecipient, Jerome Y. Lettvin]
Generated description
Jerome Y. Lettvin was an influential American neuroscientist and MIT professor best known for his pioneering work on how the nervous system processes visual information, including the landmark paper “What the frog’s eye tells the frog’s brain.”
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Jerome Y. Lettvin
Target entity description: Jerome Y. Lettvin was an influential American neuroscientist and MIT professor best known for his pioneering work on how the nervous system processes visual information, including the landmark paper “What the frog’s eye tells the frog’s brain.”
  • A. Walter Rosenblith
    Walter Rosenblith was a prominent biophysicist and neuroscientist who became a key figure at MIT, notably serving as provost and helping shape the institute’s postwar research and academic directions.
  • B. Leo Beranek
    Leo Beranek was an American acoustics expert, engineer, and entrepreneur known for his pioneering work in architectural acoustics and co-founding the influential technology company Bolt Beranek and Newman.
  • C. Alan S. Willsky
    Alan S. Willsky is an American electrical engineer and MIT professor emeritus renowned for his contributions to statistical signal processing and control theory.
  • D. Paul E. Gray
    Paul E. Gray was an American electrical engineer and educator who served as president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and was known for advancing engineering education and university–industry collaboration.
  • E. Norbert Wiener
    Norbert Wiener was an American mathematician and philosopher best known as the founder of cybernetics and for his pioneering work in stochastic processes and harmonic analysis.
  • 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_69b3453c2a0c8190926b574c90766db9 completed March 12, 2026, 10:59 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69b355674d5481908bf2dfd611f3520f completed March 13, 2026, 12:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69b6136ac9c081908780783a27f66474 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, 11:30 p.m.