Triple

T447096
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Polanyi E7045 entity
Predicate awardReceived P11 FINISHED
Object Herzberg Medal
The Herzberg Medal is a prestigious Canadian scientific award recognizing outstanding early-career research achievements, particularly in the natural sciences.
E57833 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: Herzberg Medal | Statement: [John Polanyi, awardReceived, Herzberg Medal]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herzberg Medal
Context triple: [John Polanyi, awardReceived, Herzberg Medal]
  • A. Hoover Medal
    The Hoover Medal is an American engineering award that honors outstanding civic and humanitarian service by engineers.
  • B. Bingham Medal
    The Bingham Medal is a prestigious annual award in rheology recognizing outstanding contributions to the science and engineering of the deformation and flow of matter.
  • C. Murchison Medal
    The Murchison Medal is a prestigious geological award recognizing outstanding contributions to the science of geology, particularly in hard rock studies.
  • D. Gibbs Medal
    The Gibbs Medal is a prestigious American chemistry award, historically given for outstanding contributions to the field and counted among the honors received by Linus Pauling.
  • E. Heinz Award
    The Heinz Award is a prestigious American honor recognizing individuals for outstanding contributions in areas such as the environment, the arts, the economy, and the human condition.
  • 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: Herzberg Medal
Triple: [John Polanyi, awardReceived, Herzberg Medal]
Generated description
The Herzberg Medal is a prestigious Canadian scientific award recognizing outstanding early-career research achievements, particularly in the natural sciences.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Herzberg Medal
Target entity description: The Herzberg Medal is a prestigious Canadian scientific award recognizing outstanding early-career research achievements, particularly in the natural sciences.
  • A. Hoover Medal
    The Hoover Medal is an American engineering award that honors outstanding civic and humanitarian service by engineers.
  • B. Bingham Medal
    The Bingham Medal is a prestigious annual award in rheology recognizing outstanding contributions to the science and engineering of the deformation and flow of matter.
  • C. Murchison Medal
    The Murchison Medal is a prestigious geological award recognizing outstanding contributions to the science of geology, particularly in hard rock studies.
  • D. Gibbs Medal
    The Gibbs Medal is a prestigious American chemistry award, historically given for outstanding contributions to the field and counted among the honors received by Linus Pauling.
  • E. Heinz Award
    The Heinz Award is a prestigious American honor recognizing individuals for outstanding contributions in areas such as the environment, the arts, the economy, and the human condition.
  • 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_69a2e7e4676c81909ea0dbdecac0687c completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2ef62c7a88190851fcd57658b4102 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a44f53f72c8190b8e6b246e6f153cd completed March 1, 2026, 2:38 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a451a3b4cc8190b88dc4ace3730bb5 completed March 1, 2026, 2:48 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a451f01d4881908de1bfdb6fde852b completed March 1, 2026, 2:49 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.