Triple

T5208557
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Steven Chu E117570 entity
Predicate sharedNobelPrizeWith P1859 FINISHED
Object William D. Phillips
William D. Phillips is an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in laser cooling and trapping of atoms.
 E502953 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: William D. Phillips | Statement: [Steven Chu, sharedNobelPrizeWith, William D. Phillips]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William D. Phillips
Context triple: [Steven Chu, sharedNobelPrizeWith, William D. Phillips]
  • A. Norman Ramsey
    Norman Ramsey was an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for developing the separated oscillatory field method, which enabled highly precise atomic clocks and advanced nuclear magnetic resonance techniques.
  • B. Eric A. Cornell
    Eric A. Cornell is an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for co-creating the first Bose–Einstein condensate in a dilute gas of alkali atoms.
  • C. Carl E. Wieman
    Carl E. Wieman is an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in Bose–Einstein condensation and contributions to physics education.
  • D. Dr. Robert Richardson
    Dr. Robert Richardson is a fictional physician who plays a central role in the drama surrounding the deaf-mute protagonist in the film and play "Johnny Belinda."
  • E. Anthony J. Leggett
    Anthony J. Leggett is a British-American physicist renowned for his pioneering theoretical work on superfluidity and other quantum phenomena in condensed matter systems.
  • 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: William D. Phillips
Triple: [Steven Chu, sharedNobelPrizeWith, William D. Phillips]
Generated description
William D. Phillips is an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in laser cooling and trapping of atoms.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William D. Phillips
Target entity description: William D. Phillips is an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in laser cooling and trapping of atoms.
  • A. Norman Ramsey
    Norman Ramsey was an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for developing the separated oscillatory field method, which enabled highly precise atomic clocks and advanced nuclear magnetic resonance techniques.
  • B. Eric A. Cornell
    Eric A. Cornell is an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for co-creating the first Bose–Einstein condensate in a dilute gas of alkali atoms.
  • C. Carl E. Wieman
    Carl E. Wieman is an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in Bose–Einstein condensation and contributions to physics education.
  • D. Dr. Robert Richardson
    Dr. Robert Richardson is a fictional physician who plays a central role in the drama surrounding the deaf-mute protagonist in the film and play "Johnny Belinda."
  • E. Anthony J. Leggett
    Anthony J. Leggett is a British-American physicist renowned for his pioneering theoretical work on superfluidity and other quantum phenomena in condensed matter systems.
  • 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_69bd4463dd3c81909966123f20b79d57 completed March 20, 2026, 12:58 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69bd7a6d70d081908c74e86b3bca9ba2 completed March 20, 2026, 4:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69beefd4b75c8190b1b87b8d93925245 completed March 21, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69bef0761c208190bac06ff1f92c8224 completed March 21, 2026, 7:24 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69bef14ca27c81909a5a44155c9ddaf9 completed March 21, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
Created at: March 20, 2026, 1:47 p.m.