Triple
T4707735
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Edwin McMillan |
E104431
|
entity |
| Predicate | doctoralAdvisor |
P167
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Robert A. Millikan |
E65870
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Robert A. Millikan | Statement: [Edwin McMillan, doctoralAdvisor, Robert A. Millikan]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert A. Millikan Context triple: [Edwin McMillan, doctoralAdvisor, Robert A. Millikan]
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A.
Robert A. Millikan
chosen
Robert A. Millikan was an American experimental physicist best known for his oil-drop experiment measuring the electron’s charge and for his Nobel Prize–winning work on the photoelectric effect.
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B.
Arthur H. Compton
Arthur H. Compton was an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for discovering the Compton effect and for his leadership in early nuclear research.
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C.
Percy W. Bridgman
Percy W. Bridgman was an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in high-pressure physics and for developing the philosophical approach known as operationalism.
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D.
Clinton Davisson
Clinton Davisson was an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known for experimentally demonstrating the wave nature of electrons through the Davisson–Germer experiment.
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E.
Carl David Anderson
Carl David Anderson was an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known for his discovery of the positron and important contributions to particle physics.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69bd43eac3c08190af7e4020c6c3704c |
completed | March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69bd63ebf7e48190b545670ec114bd7e |
completed | March 20, 2026, 3:12 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69be39e6428c81909be9bdb314993b1e |
completed | March 21, 2026, 6:25 a.m. |
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:17 p.m.