Triple

T490443
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Nick Holonyak Jr. E9976 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object Nick
Nick is the given name of Nick Holonyak Jr., the American engineer and inventor widely known for creating the first practical visible-spectrum LED.
E69541 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: Nick | Statement: [Nick Holonyak Jr., givenName, Nick]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nick
Context triple: [Nick Holonyak Jr., givenName, Nick]
  • A. Neil
    Neil is the given name of Neil deGrasse Tyson, a prominent American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator.
  • B. Neal
    Neal is a masculine given name of Gaelic origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
  • C. Jack
    Jack is a common masculine given name, often used as a familiar form of John and widely featured in English-language literature and popular culture.
  • D. Jamie
    Jamie is a given name commonly used as a diminutive or variant of James, and is borne by people of all genders in English-speaking countries.
  • E. Sam
    Sam is a person whose given name is Sam.
  • 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: Nick
Triple: [Nick Holonyak Jr., givenName, Nick]
Generated description
Nick is the given name of Nick Holonyak Jr., the American engineer and inventor widely known for creating the first practical visible-spectrum LED.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Nick
Target entity description: Nick is the given name of Nick Holonyak Jr., the American engineer and inventor widely known for creating the first practical visible-spectrum LED.
  • A. Neil
    Neil is the given name of Neil deGrasse Tyson, a prominent American astrophysicist, author, and science communicator.
  • B. Neal
    Neal is a masculine given name of Gaelic origin, commonly used in English-speaking countries.
  • C. Jack
    Jack is a common masculine given name, often used as a familiar form of John and widely featured in English-language literature and popular culture.
  • D. Jamie
    Jamie is a given name commonly used as a diminutive or variant of James, and is borne by people of all genders in English-speaking countries.
  • E. Sam
    Sam is a person whose given name is Sam.
  • 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_69a2e802e2908190ab17c9479e0b6412 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2f0e22a308190b04d12974fd08a38 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a4e62e2b3c81908215dab8c0717495 completed March 2, 2026, 1:21 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4e6b3f570819087fe28f3225afe88 completed March 2, 2026, 1:24 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4e706d3e88190822eeb4a724a9b6a completed March 2, 2026, 1:25 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.