Triple

T4848641
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject 高錕 E108355 entity
Predicate name P16 FINISHED
Object Charles Kuen Kao
Charles Kuen Kao was a pioneering physicist and electrical engineer known as the “father of fiber optics” for his groundbreaking work that enabled modern fiber-optic communications.
E473519 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: Charles Kuen Kao | Statement: [高錕, name, Charles Kuen Kao]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Kuen Kao
Context triple: [高錕, name, Charles Kuen Kao]
  • A. L. C. Pei
    L. C. Pei is a Chinese-American architect best known for designing the iconic Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong.
  • B. Yuan-Cheng Fung
    Yuan-Cheng Fung was a pioneering bioengineer often regarded as the "father of modern biomechanics" for his foundational contributions to the mechanics of living tissues.
  • C. C. Y. Lee
    C. Y. Lee was a Chinese-American novelist best known for his 1957 book "The Flower Drum Song," which was adapted into a successful Rodgers and Hammerstein musical and film.
  • D. Morris Chang
    Morris Chang is a Taiwanese-American engineer and entrepreneur best known as the founder and longtime leader of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), a pioneering and globally dominant semiconductor foundry.
  • E. Yuan T. Lee
    Yuan T. Lee is a Taiwanese chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in chemical reaction dynamics.
  • 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: Charles Kuen Kao
Triple: [高錕, name, Charles Kuen Kao]
Generated description
Charles Kuen Kao was a pioneering physicist and electrical engineer known as the “father of fiber optics” for his groundbreaking work that enabled modern fiber-optic communications.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles Kuen Kao
Target entity description: Charles Kuen Kao was a pioneering physicist and electrical engineer known as the “father of fiber optics” for his groundbreaking work that enabled modern fiber-optic communications.
  • A. L. C. Pei
    L. C. Pei is a Chinese-American architect best known for designing the iconic Bank of China Tower in Hong Kong.
  • B. Yuan-Cheng Fung
    Yuan-Cheng Fung was a pioneering bioengineer often regarded as the "father of modern biomechanics" for his foundational contributions to the mechanics of living tissues.
  • C. C. Y. Lee
    C. Y. Lee was a Chinese-American novelist best known for his 1957 book "The Flower Drum Song," which was adapted into a successful Rodgers and Hammerstein musical and film.
  • D. Morris Chang
    Morris Chang is a Taiwanese-American engineer and entrepreneur best known as the founder and longtime leader of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), a pioneering and globally dominant semiconductor foundry.
  • E. Yuan T. Lee
    Yuan T. Lee is a Taiwanese chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in chemical reaction dynamics.
  • 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_69bd4409b264819085ab855f3eb5381a completed March 20, 2026, 12:56 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd6d1c5594819094fe021d7717032d completed March 20, 2026, 3:51 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69be5cdafb3481908594ae883c6e9872 completed March 21, 2026, 8:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69be5d4f2f908190b305996875f1f956 completed March 21, 2026, 8:56 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69be5dcbb58c8190bbcf75c570720ad6 completed March 21, 2026, 8:58 a.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:25 p.m.