Triple

T6272341
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Longing for the Harmonies E140565 entity
Predicate author P4 FINISHED
Object Walter H. G. Lewin
Walter H. G. Lewin is a Dutch astrophysicist and former MIT professor renowned for his engaging physics lectures and popular science communication.
E580347 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: Walter H. G. Lewin | Statement: [Longing for the Harmonies, author, Walter H. G. Lewin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter H. G. Lewin
Context triple: [Longing for the Harmonies, author, Walter H. G. Lewin]
  • A. Daniel Kleppner
    Daniel Kleppner is an American physicist renowned for his pioneering work in atomic physics and contributions to the development of Bose–Einstein condensation.
  • B. David E. Pritchard
    David E. Pritchard is an American physicist known for his pioneering work in atomic, molecular, and optical physics and for his influential contributions to physics education.
  • C. Eric Mazur
    Eric Mazur is a physicist and Harvard University professor renowned for pioneering peer instruction and innovative methods in physics education.
  • D. Edward F. Redish
    Edward F. Redish is a prominent American physics education researcher known for his influential work on how students learn physics and for helping to shape modern physics education reform.
  • E. Edward M. Purcell
    Edward M. Purcell was an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance, which laid the foundation for technologies such as MRI.
  • 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: Walter H. G. Lewin
Triple: [Longing for the Harmonies, author, Walter H. G. Lewin]
Generated description
Walter H. G. Lewin is a Dutch astrophysicist and former MIT professor renowned for his engaging physics lectures and popular science communication.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter H. G. Lewin
Target entity description: Walter H. G. Lewin is a Dutch astrophysicist and former MIT professor renowned for his engaging physics lectures and popular science communication.
  • A. Daniel Kleppner
    Daniel Kleppner is an American physicist renowned for his pioneering work in atomic physics and contributions to the development of Bose–Einstein condensation.
  • B. David E. Pritchard
    David E. Pritchard is an American physicist known for his pioneering work in atomic, molecular, and optical physics and for his influential contributions to physics education.
  • C. Eric Mazur
    Eric Mazur is a physicist and Harvard University professor renowned for pioneering peer instruction and innovative methods in physics education.
  • D. Edward F. Redish
    Edward F. Redish is a prominent American physics education researcher known for his influential work on how students learn physics and for helping to shape modern physics education reform.
  • E. Edward M. Purcell
    Edward M. Purcell was an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance, which laid the foundation for technologies such as MRI.
  • 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_69c008cabc4081909723e2547c9d6cc0 completed March 22, 2026, 3:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c063bca5488190b9da3c037cfc7953 completed March 22, 2026, 9:48 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c2446ad060819094acd817ba5eadc9 completed March 24, 2026, 7:59 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c4fb6bb9bc8190a29ae09221aa5464 completed March 26, 2026, 9:24 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c4fc075dd881908230bb66d1445d5a completed March 26, 2026, 9:27 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:25 p.m.