Triple

T6934323
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Phage Group E160514 entity
Predicate hasMember P10 FINISHED
Object Matthew Meselson
Matthew Meselson is an American geneticist and molecular biologist best known for the Meselson–Stahl experiment, which provided key evidence for the semiconservative replication of DNA.
E644164 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: Matthew Meselson | Statement: [Phage Group, hasMember, Matthew Meselson]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Matthew Meselson
Context triple: [Phage Group, hasMember, Matthew Meselson]
  • A. Max Delbrück
    Max Delbrück was a German-American biophysicist and Nobel Prize–winning pioneer of molecular genetics whose work on bacteriophages helped establish the foundations of modern molecular biology.
  • B. Joshua Lederberg
    Joshua Lederberg was an American molecular biologist and geneticist renowned for his pioneering work in bacterial genetics, which earned him a share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
  • C. Shelley Levene
    Shelley Levene is a desperate, aging real estate salesman whose mounting failures and moral compromises drive much of the tension in David Mamet’s play and film "Glengarry Glen Ross."
  • D. Seymour Benzer
    Seymour Benzer was an influential American molecular biologist and neuroscientist whose pioneering work in gene mapping and the genetic basis of behavior helped establish modern neurogenetics.
  • E. Alfred Hershey
    Alfred Hershey was an American bacteriologist and geneticist best known for the Hershey–Chase experiment, which helped establish DNA as the genetic material.
  • 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: Matthew Meselson
Triple: [Phage Group, hasMember, Matthew Meselson]
Generated description
Matthew Meselson is an American geneticist and molecular biologist best known for the Meselson–Stahl experiment, which provided key evidence for the semiconservative replication of DNA.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Matthew Meselson
Target entity description: Matthew Meselson is an American geneticist and molecular biologist best known for the Meselson–Stahl experiment, which provided key evidence for the semiconservative replication of DNA.
  • A. Max Delbrück
    Max Delbrück was a German-American biophysicist and Nobel Prize–winning pioneer of molecular genetics whose work on bacteriophages helped establish the foundations of modern molecular biology.
  • B. Joshua Lederberg
    Joshua Lederberg was an American molecular biologist and geneticist renowned for his pioneering work in bacterial genetics, which earned him a share of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
  • C. Shelley Levene
    Shelley Levene is a desperate, aging real estate salesman whose mounting failures and moral compromises drive much of the tension in David Mamet’s play and film "Glengarry Glen Ross."
  • D. Seymour Benzer
    Seymour Benzer was an influential American molecular biologist and neuroscientist whose pioneering work in gene mapping and the genetic basis of behavior helped establish modern neurogenetics.
  • E. Alfred Hershey
    Alfred Hershey was an American bacteriologist and geneticist best known for the Hershey–Chase experiment, which helped establish DNA as the genetic material.
  • 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_69c6884e15208190b9e91487eaafcf85 completed March 27, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6da415b1481908d70b92ecd5fd8e6 completed March 27, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7a30c94fc8190b5994a7dc2b709c0 completed March 28, 2026, 9:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c7a45ce628819085343c30f2886a95 completed March 28, 2026, 9:50 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c7a60ac4348190a623522f2d8199e9 completed March 28, 2026, 9:57 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:27 p.m.