Triple
T5820177
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Whipple Museum of the History of Science |
E129087
|
entity |
| Predicate | foundedBy |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Robert Stewart Whipple
Robert Stewart Whipple was a British businessman, collector, and historian of scientific instruments whose extensive collection formed the basis of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science at the University of Cambridge.
|
E554462
|
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: Robert Stewart Whipple | Statement: [Whipple Museum of the History of Science, foundedBy, Robert Stewart Whipple]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Stewart Whipple Context triple: [Whipple Museum of the History of Science, foundedBy, Robert Stewart Whipple]
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A.
Charles Goodell
Charles Goodell was a U.S. Congressman and Senator from New York who was appointed to the Senate after Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination and later became known for his opposition to the Vietnam War.
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B.
Amiel Weeks Whipple
Amiel Weeks Whipple was a 19th-century United States Army officer and topographical engineer known for his surveys of the American West and his service as a Union general in the Civil War.
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C.
Robert Charles Winthrop
Robert Charles Winthrop was a 19th-century American lawyer, philanthropist, and Whig politician who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts.
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D.
Charles Evans Whittaker
Charles Evans Whittaker was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court who served from 1957 to 1962 after a rapid rise through the federal judiciary.
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E.
Henry Rossiter Worthington
Henry Rossiter Worthington was a 19th-century American engineer and inventor best known for pioneering improvements in steam pumping technology and helping to establish mechanical engineering as a formal profession.
- 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: Robert Stewart Whipple Triple: [Whipple Museum of the History of Science, foundedBy, Robert Stewart Whipple]
Generated description
Robert Stewart Whipple was a British businessman, collector, and historian of scientific instruments whose extensive collection formed the basis of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science at the University of Cambridge.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Stewart Whipple Target entity description: Robert Stewart Whipple was a British businessman, collector, and historian of scientific instruments whose extensive collection formed the basis of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science at the University of Cambridge.
-
A.
Charles Goodell
Charles Goodell was a U.S. Congressman and Senator from New York who was appointed to the Senate after Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination and later became known for his opposition to the Vietnam War.
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B.
Amiel Weeks Whipple
Amiel Weeks Whipple was a 19th-century United States Army officer and topographical engineer known for his surveys of the American West and his service as a Union general in the Civil War.
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C.
Robert Charles Winthrop
Robert Charles Winthrop was a 19th-century American lawyer, philanthropist, and Whig politician who served as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives and a U.S. Senator from Massachusetts.
-
D.
Charles Evans Whittaker
Charles Evans Whittaker was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court who served from 1957 to 1962 after a rapid rise through the federal judiciary.
-
E.
Henry Rossiter Worthington
Henry Rossiter Worthington was a 19th-century American engineer and inventor best known for pioneering improvements in steam pumping technology and helping to establish mechanical engineering as a formal profession.
- 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_69c0084869e881908d7859492183ca7b |
completed | March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c033e598f48190abd859c5a2ba08dd |
completed | March 22, 2026, 6:24 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c0b0e20c208190b861fa8066852efc |
completed | March 23, 2026, 3:17 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69c0b49e1c008190b503d76e0c9397d3 |
completed | March 23, 2026, 3:33 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69c0b4f3ec388190b742449beccf82ef |
completed | March 23, 2026, 3:35 a.m. |
Created at: March 22, 2026, 3:53 p.m.