Triple

T6208768
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject George Sarton Medal E138813 entity
Predicate notableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Marshall Clagett
Marshall Clagett was an American historian of science renowned for his influential scholarship on the history of medieval and early modern mathematics and physics.
 E575321 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: Marshall Clagett | Statement: [George Sarton Medal, notableRecipient, Marshall Clagett]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Marshall Clagett
Context triple: [George Sarton Medal, notableRecipient, Marshall Clagett]
  • A. Robert B. Bowler
    Robert B. Bowler was an American public official who served as the United States Comptroller of the Treasury, overseeing federal financial accounts and fiscal administration.
  • B. A. S. Hutchinson
    A. S. Hutchinson was a British novelist best known for his early 20th-century popular fiction, including the bestseller "If Winter Comes."
  • C. Thomas Holt
    Thomas Holt was a prominent early 17th-century English architect and master mason best known for designing key Renaissance-style buildings at the University of Oxford.
  • D. Gérard F. Gilmore
    Gérard F. Gilmore is a British astronomer known for his influential work on the structure and dynamics of the Milky Way galaxy.
  • E. H. Stuart Hughes
    H. Stuart Hughes was an American historian and intellectual known for his work on European intellectual history and his involvement in mid-20th-century liberal politics.
  • 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: Marshall Clagett
Triple: [George Sarton Medal, notableRecipient, Marshall Clagett]
Generated description
Marshall Clagett was an American historian of science renowned for his influential scholarship on the history of medieval and early modern mathematics and physics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Marshall Clagett
Target entity description: Marshall Clagett was an American historian of science renowned for his influential scholarship on the history of medieval and early modern mathematics and physics.
  • A. Robert B. Bowler
    Robert B. Bowler was an American public official who served as the United States Comptroller of the Treasury, overseeing federal financial accounts and fiscal administration.
  • B. A. S. Hutchinson
    A. S. Hutchinson was a British novelist best known for his early 20th-century popular fiction, including the bestseller "If Winter Comes."
  • C. Thomas Holt
    Thomas Holt was a prominent early 17th-century English architect and master mason best known for designing key Renaissance-style buildings at the University of Oxford.
  • D. Gérard F. Gilmore
    Gérard F. Gilmore is a British astronomer known for his influential work on the structure and dynamics of the Milky Way galaxy.
  • E. H. Stuart Hughes
    H. Stuart Hughes was an American historian and intellectual known for his work on European intellectual history and his involvement in mid-20th-century liberal politics.
  • 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.