Triple

T6208752
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject George Sarton Medal E138813 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object George Sarton
George Sarton was a pioneering Belgian-American historian of science, often regarded as a founder of the discipline for his influential scholarship and the journal Isis.
E575317 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: George Sarton | Statement: [George Sarton Medal, namedAfter, George Sarton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Sarton
Context triple: [George Sarton Medal, namedAfter, George Sarton]
  • A. Alexandre Koyré
    Alexandre Koyré was a 20th-century historian and philosopher of science known for his influential studies on the Scientific Revolution and the development of modern scientific thought.
  • B. Ludwik Fleck
    Ludwik Fleck was a Polish microbiologist and philosopher of science whose ideas about thought collectives and the social construction of scientific facts significantly shaped later work in the history and philosophy of science.
  • C. Joseph Needham
    Joseph Needham was a British biochemist and pioneering historian of Chinese science and technology, best known for his monumental multi-volume work "Science and Civilisation in China."
  • D. Lucien Febvre
    Lucien Febvre was a pioneering French historian and co-founder of the Annales School, known for transforming the study of history through interdisciplinary and long-term social analysis.
  • E. Gilbert Durant
    Gilbert Durant was a French philosopher and anthropologist best known for his influential work on the theory of symbols and the anthropology of the imagination.
  • 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: George Sarton
Triple: [George Sarton Medal, namedAfter, George Sarton]
Generated description
George Sarton was a pioneering Belgian-American historian of science, often regarded as a founder of the discipline for his influential scholarship and the journal Isis.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: George Sarton
Target entity description: George Sarton was a pioneering Belgian-American historian of science, often regarded as a founder of the discipline for his influential scholarship and the journal Isis.
  • A. Alexandre Koyré
    Alexandre Koyré was a 20th-century historian and philosopher of science known for his influential studies on the Scientific Revolution and the development of modern scientific thought.
  • B. Ludwik Fleck
    Ludwik Fleck was a Polish microbiologist and philosopher of science whose ideas about thought collectives and the social construction of scientific facts significantly shaped later work in the history and philosophy of science.
  • C. Joseph Needham
    Joseph Needham was a British biochemist and pioneering historian of Chinese science and technology, best known for his monumental multi-volume work "Science and Civilisation in China."
  • D. Lucien Febvre
    Lucien Febvre was a pioneering French historian and co-founder of the Annales School, known for transforming the study of history through interdisciplinary and long-term social analysis.
  • E. Gilbert Durant
    Gilbert Durant was a French philosopher and anthropologist best known for his influential work on the theory of symbols and the anthropology of the imagination.
  • 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_69c008ada364819096c9e92c74d639b5 completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c062870d5881909b8d4e33ff31a907 completed March 22, 2026, 9:43 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c16f52829c81909bdd422cbb1eabf4 completed March 23, 2026, 4:50 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c1d2bc0c448190b1ae105212f5c933 completed March 23, 2026, 11:54 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c1d33e93e48190a0962f69e7601160 completed March 23, 2026, 11:56 p.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:21 p.m.