Triple
T727883
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Dr. Dobb’s Excellence in Programming Award |
E14766
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableRecipient |
P108
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Donald Knuth |
E17089
|
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: Donald Knuth | Statement: [Dr. Dobb’s Excellence in Programming Award, notableRecipient, Donald Knuth]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Donald Knuth Context triple: [Dr. Dobb’s Excellence in Programming Award, notableRecipient, Donald Knuth]
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A.
Donald E. Knuth
chosen
Donald E. Knuth is an American computer scientist renowned for founding the rigorous analysis of algorithms and authoring the seminal multi-volume work "The Art of Computer Programming."
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B.
Edsger W. Dijkstra
Edsger W. Dijkstra was a pioneering Dutch computer scientist known for fundamental contributions to algorithms, programming languages, and software engineering, including Dijkstra's algorithm for shortest paths.
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C.
Alan Perlis
Alan Perlis was an American computer scientist and educator renowned for his pioneering work in programming languages and for being the first recipient of the Turing Award.
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D.
Niklaus Wirth
Niklaus Wirth is a Swiss computer scientist best known for creating several influential programming languages, including Pascal, Modula, and Oberon, and for his pioneering work in software engineering and programming language design.
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E.
Tony Hoare
Tony Hoare is a British computer scientist best known for developing the Quicksort algorithm and making foundational contributions to programming languages and formal methods.
- 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_69a4934c753c81909b309027e48b9b3a |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4a5c011948190b2cfccd8fe722742 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 8:46 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a6375e24248190b53efa0bfc29567a |
completed | March 3, 2026, 1:20 a.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:37 p.m.