Triple

T6214855
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John W. Cahn E138960 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object John
John is the given name of John W. Cahn, a prominent American materials scientist known for his influential work in the theory of phase transformations and materials microstructure.
E575757 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: John | Statement: [John W. Cahn, givenName, John]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John
Context triple: [John W. Cahn, givenName, John]
  • A. John
    John is traditionally regarded as the author of the New Testament’s Book of Revelation, a prophetic and apocalyptic text in Christian scripture.
  • B. John
    John is the given first name of J. Edgar Hoover, the long-serving and influential first director of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
  • C. John
    John is the given first name of the legendary American professional golfer Byron Nelson, one of the sport’s early great champions.
  • D. John
    John is the given name of John H. Hammond Jr., the influential American record producer and talent scout known for discovering and promoting numerous major jazz, blues, and rock musicians.
  • E. John
    John is the given name of the late American comedian and actor John Belushi, famed for his work on "Saturday Night Live" and in films like "Animal House" and "The Blues Brothers."
  • 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: John
Triple: [John W. Cahn, givenName, John]
Generated description
John is the given name of John W. Cahn, a prominent American materials scientist known for his influential work in the theory of phase transformations and materials microstructure.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John
Target entity description: John is the given name of John W. Cahn, a prominent American materials scientist known for his influential work in the theory of phase transformations and materials microstructure.
  • A. John
    John is the given name of the influential American theoretical physicist John Archibald Wheeler, known for his work in quantum mechanics and general relativity.
  • B. John
    John is the given name of John Polanyi, a Nobel Prize–winning chemist known for his work on chemical kinetics and reaction dynamics.
  • C. John
    John is the given name of John Robert Schrieffer, the American physicist and Nobel laureate known for co-developing the BCS theory of superconductivity.
  • D. John
    John is the given name of John R. Pierce, an American engineer and scientist known for his pioneering work in communications and satellite technology.
  • E. John
    John is the given name of John Cockcroft, a pioneering British physicist and Nobel laureate known for his work on nuclear physics and particle acceleration.
  • 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_69c062a0e0488190b71b42386bacf982 completed March 22, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c16ee938748190ad03e19c241b0881 completed March 23, 2026, 4:48 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c1e26bd8688190a8689f6a0f8c0c74 completed March 24, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c1e352fb648190ae6165b983294a60 completed March 24, 2026, 1:05 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:21 p.m.