Triple

T6434781
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Harry Kroto E129865 entity
Predicate coDiscoveredWith P5336 FINISHED
Object Richard Smalley
Richard Smalley was an American chemist and Nobel laureate best known for co-discovering fullerenes, a new form of carbon.
E597703 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: Richard Smalley | Statement: [Harry Kroto, coDiscoveredWith, Richard Smalley]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Smalley
Context triple: [Harry Kroto, coDiscoveredWith, Richard Smalley]
  • A. Robert Curl
    Robert Curl was an American chemist and Nobel laureate best known for co-discovering buckminsterfullerene (C60), a landmark finding in the field of nanotechnology and carbon chemistry.
  • B. Harry Kroto
    Harry Kroto was a British chemist and Nobel laureate best known for co-discovering the carbon molecule buckminsterfullerene (C60), a key advance in the field of nanotechnology and carbon chemistry.
  • C. William N. Lipscomb Jr.
    William N. Lipscomb Jr. was an American chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in the structure and bonding of boranes and other boron-containing compounds.
  • D. Ronald Breslow
    Ronald Breslow was a prominent American chemist renowned for his pioneering work in biomimetic chemistry and for major contributions to organic reaction mechanisms and vitamin B₁ chemistry.
  • E. Alan J. Heeger
    Alan J. Heeger is an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on conductive polymers and organic electronics.
  • 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: Richard Smalley
Triple: [Harry Kroto, coDiscoveredWith, Richard Smalley]
Generated description
Richard Smalley was an American chemist and Nobel laureate best known for co-discovering fullerenes, a new form of carbon.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard Smalley
Target entity description: Richard Smalley was an American chemist and Nobel laureate best known for co-discovering fullerenes, a new form of carbon.
  • A. Robert Curl
    Robert Curl was an American chemist and Nobel laureate best known for co-discovering buckminsterfullerene (C60), a landmark finding in the field of nanotechnology and carbon chemistry.
  • B. Harry Kroto
    Harry Kroto was a British chemist and Nobel laureate best known for co-discovering the carbon molecule buckminsterfullerene (C60), a key advance in the field of nanotechnology and carbon chemistry.
  • C. William N. Lipscomb Jr.
    William N. Lipscomb Jr. was an American chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in the structure and bonding of boranes and other boron-containing compounds.
  • D. Ronald Breslow
    Ronald Breslow was a prominent American chemist renowned for his pioneering work in biomimetic chemistry and for major contributions to organic reaction mechanisms and vitamin B₁ chemistry.
  • E. Alan J. Heeger
    Alan J. Heeger is an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work on conductive polymers and organic electronics.
  • 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_69c0084caac48190a7bc2ad8ba44536f completed March 22, 2026, 3:18 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c069415c3c8190b91bd12ae79edd26 completed March 22, 2026, 10:12 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c65fc86d0c8190a254126255a7af1b completed March 27, 2026, 10:45 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c660ae1ae48190941b4e0fc1fa6bea completed March 27, 2026, 10:49 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c6615b639c8190af0073368e55ab8d completed March 27, 2026, 10:52 a.m.
Created at: March 22, 2026, 4:45 p.m.