Triple

T447103
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Polanyi E7045 entity
Predicate sharesNobelPrizeWith P1859 FINISHED
Object Yuan T. Lee
Yuan T. Lee is a Taiwanese chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in chemical reaction dynamics.
 E57173 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: Yuan T. Lee | Statement: [John Polanyi, sharesNobelPrizeWith, Yuan T. Lee]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Yuan T. Lee
Context triple: [John Polanyi, sharesNobelPrizeWith, Yuan T. Lee]
  • A. Charles K. Kao
    Charles K. Kao was a pioneering physicist and electrical engineer known as the "father of fiber optics" for his groundbreaking work enabling high-speed optical fiber communications.
  • B. John Polanyi
    John Polanyi is a Canadian chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in chemical kinetics and reaction dynamics.
  • C. 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.
  • D. C. N. Yang
    C. N. Yang is a Chinese-American theoretical physicist renowned for his work on gauge theory and the Yang–Mills theory, which profoundly shaped modern particle physics.
  • E. 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.
  • 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: Yuan T. Lee
Triple: [John Polanyi, sharesNobelPrizeWith, Yuan T. Lee]
Generated description
Yuan T. Lee is a Taiwanese chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in chemical reaction dynamics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Yuan T. Lee
Target entity description: Yuan T. Lee is a Taiwanese chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in chemical reaction dynamics.
  • A. Charles K. Kao
    Charles K. Kao was a pioneering physicist and electrical engineer known as the "father of fiber optics" for his groundbreaking work enabling high-speed optical fiber communications.
  • B. John Polanyi
    John Polanyi is a Canadian chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in chemical kinetics and reaction dynamics.
  • C. 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.
  • D. C. N. Yang
    C. N. Yang is a Chinese-American theoretical physicist renowned for his work on gauge theory and the Yang–Mills theory, which profoundly shaped modern particle physics.
  • E. 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.
  • 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_69a44cb867388190b768bce1f3f990ac completed March 1, 2026, 2:27 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a44d31f0088190b55fd733460d7789 completed March 1, 2026, 2:29 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a44de3f26881909c9ea34a421ea7cf completed March 1, 2026, 2:32 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.