Triple

T6670693
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject George M. Whitesides E151721 entity
Predicate familyName P18 FINISHED
Object Whitesides
Whitesides is a surname most prominently associated with George M. Whitesides, a leading American chemist and pioneer in materials science and nanotechnology.
 E610291 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: Whitesides | Statement: [George M. Whitesides, familyName, Whitesides]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Whitesides
Context triple: [George M. Whitesides, familyName, Whitesides]
  • A. Carothers
    Carothers is a surname most notably associated with Wallace H. Carothers, the American chemist who invented nylon.
  • B. Bridgman
    Bridgman is a surname most notably associated with American physicist and Nobel laureate Percy Williams Bridgman, a pioneer in high-pressure physics.
  • C. Woolsey
    Woolsey is a surname most notably associated with Theodore Dwight Woolsey, a prominent 19th-century American academic and president of Yale College.
  • D. Whittaker
    Whittaker is a surname of English and Scottish origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as science, sports, and the arts.
  • E. Sloan
    Sloan is a small unincorporated community in Clark County, Nevada, located just south of Las Vegas along Interstate 15.
  • 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: Whitesides
Triple: [George M. Whitesides, familyName, Whitesides]
Generated description
Whitesides is a surname most prominently associated with George M. Whitesides, a leading American chemist and pioneer in materials science and nanotechnology.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Whitesides
Target entity description: Whitesides is a surname most prominently associated with George M. Whitesides, a leading American chemist and pioneer in materials science and nanotechnology.
  • A. Carothers
    Carothers is a surname most notably associated with Wallace H. Carothers, the American chemist who invented nylon.
  • B. Bridgman
    Bridgman is a surname most notably associated with American physicist and Nobel laureate Percy Williams Bridgman, a pioneer in high-pressure physics.
  • C. Woolsey
    Woolsey is a surname most notably associated with Theodore Dwight Woolsey, a prominent 19th-century American academic and president of Yale College.
  • D. Whittaker
    Whittaker is a surname of English and Scottish origin borne by various notable individuals across fields such as science, sports, and the arts.
  • E. Sloan
    Sloan is a small unincorporated community in Clark County, Nevada, located just south of Las Vegas along Interstate 15.
  • 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_69c687f71fc081909dbd45d6377f6045 completed March 27, 2026, 1:36 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6b0c9163c8190ad959172a8458619 completed March 27, 2026, 4:31 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c6ef12fcfc819086b37dc9b9929663 completed March 27, 2026, 8:56 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c6f0a498cc8190a0494082b91b012d completed March 27, 2026, 9:03 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c6f136ac648190b94a7cda43139fd0 completed March 27, 2026, 9:05 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:03 p.m.