Triple

T501657
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject IEEE Control Systems Award E10414 entity
Predicate notableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Petar V. Kokotović
Petar V. Kokotović is a prominent control systems engineer known for his foundational contributions to nonlinear and adaptive control theory and influential academic leadership in the field.
E63428 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: Petar V. Kokotović | Statement: [IEEE Control Systems Award, notableRecipient, Petar V. Kokotović]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Petar V. Kokotović
Context triple: [IEEE Control Systems Award, notableRecipient, Petar V. Kokotović]
  • A. Karl J. Åström
    Karl J. Åström is a prominent Swedish control theorist and engineer renowned for his foundational contributions to automatic control, system identification, and adaptive control.
  • B. Rudolf E. Kalman
    Rudolf E. Kalman was a pioneering control theorist best known for developing the Kalman filter, a fundamental algorithm in modern control, signal processing, and navigation systems.
  • C. Thomas Kailath
    Thomas Kailath is an Indian-American electrical engineer and Stanford professor renowned for his influential contributions to information theory, control, and signal processing.
  • D. Joseph Sifakis
    Joseph Sifakis is a Greek-French computer scientist renowned for his pioneering work in formal verification and model checking, for which he received the Turing Award.
  • E. Andrea Prosperetti
    Andrea Prosperetti is a prominent physicist and engineer renowned for his pioneering contributions to fluid dynamics, particularly in multiphase flows and bubble 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: Petar V. Kokotović
Triple: [IEEE Control Systems Award, notableRecipient, Petar V. Kokotović]
Generated description
Petar V. Kokotović is a prominent control systems engineer known for his foundational contributions to nonlinear and adaptive control theory and influential academic leadership in the field.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Petar V. Kokotović
Target entity description: Petar V. Kokotović is a prominent control systems engineer known for his foundational contributions to nonlinear and adaptive control theory and influential academic leadership in the field.
  • A. Karl J. Åström
    Karl J. Åström is a prominent Swedish control theorist and engineer renowned for his foundational contributions to automatic control, system identification, and adaptive control.
  • B. Rudolf E. Kalman
    Rudolf E. Kalman was a pioneering control theorist best known for developing the Kalman filter, a fundamental algorithm in modern control, signal processing, and navigation systems.
  • C. Thomas Kailath
    Thomas Kailath is an Indian-American electrical engineer and Stanford professor renowned for his influential contributions to information theory, control, and signal processing.
  • D. Joseph Sifakis
    Joseph Sifakis is a Greek-French computer scientist renowned for his pioneering work in formal verification and model checking, for which he received the Turing Award.
  • E. Andrea Prosperetti
    Andrea Prosperetti is a prominent physicist and engineer renowned for his pioneering contributions to fluid dynamics, particularly in multiphase flows and bubble 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_69a2e848adf881908e5e04f7af030093 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:06 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a2f131e2148190afd43402f505c73e completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a4984d3a4881909b4bec4c9b7dcd03 completed March 1, 2026, 7:49 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a49c5d940c8190802f51ddd722913d completed March 1, 2026, 8:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a49dc00084819088f75c7ff9d93f94 completed March 1, 2026, 8:12 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 1:12 p.m.