Triple

T590387
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Traitorous Eight E17253 entity
Predicate member P10 FINISHED
Object Sheldon Roberts
Sheldon Roberts was an American engineer and semiconductor pioneer best known as one of the "Traitorous Eight" who left Shockley Semiconductor to found Fairchild Semiconductor, helping launch Silicon Valley’s modern electronics industry.
 E74034 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: Sheldon Roberts | Statement: [Traitorous Eight, member, Sheldon Roberts]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sheldon Roberts
Context triple: [Traitorous Eight, member, Sheldon Roberts]
  • A. Sheldon Lane
    Sheldon Lane is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Lane.
  • B. Richard Feynman
    Richard Feynman was a pioneering American theoretical physicist renowned for his work in quantum electrodynamics, his influential teaching, and his popular science writings.
  • C. James M. Bardeen
    James M. Bardeen is an American theoretical physicist known for his influential work in general relativity and black hole physics, including contributions to the understanding of Hawking radiation and cosmological perturbation theory.
  • D. Carl Feynman
    Carl Feynman is the son of renowned physicist Richard Feynman and a software engineer known for his work in computer science and technology.
  • E. David L. Goodstein
    David L. Goodstein is an American physicist and educator known for his work in condensed matter physics, science education, and authorship of popular science books.
  • 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: Sheldon Roberts
Triple: [Traitorous Eight, member, Sheldon Roberts]
Generated description
Sheldon Roberts was an American engineer and semiconductor pioneer best known as one of the "Traitorous Eight" who left Shockley Semiconductor to found Fairchild Semiconductor, helping launch Silicon Valley’s modern electronics industry.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Sheldon Roberts
Target entity description: Sheldon Roberts was an American engineer and semiconductor pioneer best known as one of the "Traitorous Eight" who left Shockley Semiconductor to found Fairchild Semiconductor, helping launch Silicon Valley’s modern electronics industry.
  • A. Sheldon Lane
    Sheldon Lane is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Lane.
  • B. Richard Feynman
    Richard Feynman was a pioneering American theoretical physicist renowned for his work in quantum electrodynamics, his influential teaching, and his popular science writings.
  • C. James M. Bardeen
    James M. Bardeen is an American theoretical physicist known for his influential work in general relativity and black hole physics, including contributions to the understanding of Hawking radiation and cosmological perturbation theory.
  • D. Carl Feynman
    Carl Feynman is the son of renowned physicist Richard Feynman and a software engineer known for his work in computer science and technology.
  • E. David L. Goodstein
    David L. Goodstein is an American physicist and educator known for his work in condensed matter physics, science education, and authorship of popular science books.
  • 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_69a49379d09c8190ac7e00b24e2810b1 completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a49bb8ff0081909cd53d88930e2693 completed March 1, 2026, 8:04 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a51554857481909c684b86b51aa126 completed March 2, 2026, 4:43 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a5163b240881909672bf4bc2ebe9cf completed March 2, 2026, 4:46 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a516a1e6508190a7ecb801f5080ddd completed March 2, 2026, 4:48 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:33 p.m.