Triple

T447102
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Polanyi E7045 entity
Predicate sharesNobelPrizeWith P1859 FINISHED
Object Dudley R. Herschbach
Dudley R. Herschbach is an American chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in molecular beam experiments that advanced the understanding of chemical reaction dynamics.
E56807 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: Dudley R. Herschbach | Statement: [John Polanyi, sharesNobelPrizeWith, Dudley R. Herschbach]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dudley R. Herschbach
Context triple: [John Polanyi, sharesNobelPrizeWith, Dudley R. Herschbach]
  • A. John Polanyi
    John Polanyi is a Canadian chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in chemical kinetics and reaction dynamics.
  • B. Ahmed Zewail
    Ahmed Zewail was an Egyptian-American chemist and Nobel laureate renowned as the “father of femtochemistry” for his pioneering work using ultrafast lasers to observe chemical reactions in real time.
  • C. Gerhard Herzberg
    Gerhard Herzberg was a German-Canadian physicist and physical chemist renowned for his pioneering work in molecular spectroscopy, for which he received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
  • D. Kurt Wüthrich
    Kurt Wüthrich is a Swiss chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for pioneering the use of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to determine the three-dimensional structures of biological macromolecules.
  • E. Frances Arnold
    Frances Arnold is an American chemical engineer and Nobel laureate renowned for pioneering the directed evolution of enzymes, revolutionizing fields from green chemistry to biotechnology.
  • 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: Dudley R. Herschbach
Triple: [John Polanyi, sharesNobelPrizeWith, Dudley R. Herschbach]
Generated description
Dudley R. Herschbach is an American chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in molecular beam experiments that advanced the understanding of chemical reaction dynamics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Dudley R. Herschbach
Target entity description: Dudley R. Herschbach is an American chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in molecular beam experiments that advanced the understanding of chemical reaction dynamics.
  • A. John Polanyi
    John Polanyi is a Canadian chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in chemical kinetics and reaction dynamics.
  • B. Ahmed Zewail
    Ahmed Zewail was an Egyptian-American chemist and Nobel laureate renowned as the “father of femtochemistry” for his pioneering work using ultrafast lasers to observe chemical reactions in real time.
  • C. Gerhard Herzberg
    Gerhard Herzberg was a German-Canadian physicist and physical chemist renowned for his pioneering work in molecular spectroscopy, for which he received the 1971 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
  • D. Kurt Wüthrich
    Kurt Wüthrich is a Swiss chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for pioneering the use of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to determine the three-dimensional structures of biological macromolecules.
  • E. Frances Arnold
    Frances Arnold is an American chemical engineer and Nobel laureate renowned for pioneering the directed evolution of enzymes, revolutionizing fields from green chemistry to biotechnology.
  • 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_69a447fdbcb881908299f7f72a3b7947 completed March 1, 2026, 2:06 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a44a6379188190972dba701e754a48 completed March 1, 2026, 2:17 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a44ab77d54819088fcc3cf12b8a994 completed March 1, 2026, 2:18 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.