Triple

T7115779
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject David Slepian E165814 entity
Predicate notableStudent P4838 FINISHED
Object Thomas M. Cover E165813 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: Thomas M. Cover | Statement: [David Slepian, notableStudent, Thomas M. Cover]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas M. Cover
Context triple: [David Slepian, notableStudent, Thomas M. Cover]
  • A. Thomas M. Cover chosen
    Thomas M. Cover was an influential American information theorist and Stanford professor known for his foundational contributions to information theory, statistics, and machine learning.
  • B. Robert E. Blahut
    Robert E. Blahut is an American electrical engineer and information theorist known for his influential contributions to coding theory, including the Blahut–Arimoto algorithm, and for authoring foundational texts in the field.
  • C. Andrea Goldsmith
    Andrea Goldsmith is an American electrical engineer and academic renowned for her pioneering contributions to wireless communications and information theory.
  • D. Robert G. Gallager
    Robert G. Gallager is an American electrical engineer and information theorist renowned for his foundational contributions to coding theory and data communications.
  • E. Andrew Viterbi
    Andrew Viterbi is an Italian-American engineer and co-founder of Qualcomm best known for inventing the Viterbi algorithm, a fundamental method used in digital communication and error correction.
  • 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_69c6888227bc8190a1394679e3116f90 completed March 27, 2026, 1:39 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6e5f401b881909ef4c2ab1e0750db completed March 27, 2026, 8:17 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7a32870e481909472f8fcd2501289 completed March 28, 2026, 9:45 a.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 2:43 p.m.