Triple
T705234
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Copley Medal |
E14083
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableRecipient |
P108
|
FINISHED |
| Object | J. J. Thomson |
E14769
|
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: J. J. Thomson | Statement: [Copley Medal, notableRecipient, J. J. Thomson]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: J. J. Thomson Context triple: [Copley Medal, notableRecipient, J. J. Thomson]
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A.
J. J. Thomson
chosen
J. J. Thomson was a British physicist best known for discovering the electron and proposing the "plum pudding" model of the atom.
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B.
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford was a pioneering New Zealand-born physicist known as the father of nuclear physics for his groundbreaking work on radioactivity and the structure of the atom.
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C.
Robert A. Millikan
Robert A. Millikan was an American experimental physicist best known for his oil-drop experiment measuring the electron’s charge and for his Nobel Prize–winning work on the photoelectric effect.
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D.
Michael Faraday
Michael Faraday was a pioneering 19th-century English scientist whose groundbreaking work in electromagnetism and electrochemistry laid the foundations for much of modern physics and electrical engineering.
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E.
James Clerk Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell was a 19th-century Scottish physicist best known for formulating the classical theory of electromagnetism, unifying electricity, magnetism, and light into a single framework.
- 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_69a493494ec48190ae6751683625a9ba |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4a544e3608190ac315c7aa9f88e7e |
completed | March 1, 2026, 8:44 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a63755d1f081909f214ab8d497f096 |
completed | March 3, 2026, 1:20 a.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:36 p.m.