Triple
T6233071
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Cockcroft–Walton generator |
E139401
|
entity |
| Predicate | developedBy |
P73
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton |
E143306
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton | Statement: [Cockcroft–Walton generator, developedBy, Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton Context triple: [Cockcroft–Walton generator, developedBy, Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton]
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A.
Ernest Walton
chosen
Ernest Walton was an Irish physicist and Nobel laureate best known for co-developing the Cockcroft–Walton accelerator, which achieved the first artificial nuclear disintegration.
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B.
John Cockcroft
John Cockcroft was a British physicist and Nobel laureate best known for splitting the atomic nucleus with Ernest Walton, pioneering early nuclear physics and contributing to the development of nuclear energy.
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C.
Cecil F. Powell
Cecil F. Powell was a British physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in particle physics using photographic emulsion techniques.
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D.
James Chadwick
James Chadwick was a British physicist best known for discovering the neutron and later playing a major scientific leadership role in the development of nuclear weapons during World War II.
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E.
George Paget Thomson
George Paget Thomson was a British physicist and Nobel laureate best known for demonstrating the wave-like properties of electrons through diffraction experiments.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69c008b0e7ac8190808a59573ee646f3 |
completed | March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69c062efa25c8190a54f5a6f5b5ad24f |
completed | March 22, 2026, 9:45 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69c62d1171788190aa302b54d14e9a5d |
completed | March 27, 2026, 7:09 a.m. |
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:22 p.m.