Triple
T727885
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Dr. Dobb’s Excellence in Programming Award |
E14766
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableRecipient |
P108
|
FINISHED |
| Object | James Gosling |
E73444
|
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: James Gosling | Statement: [Dr. Dobb’s Excellence in Programming Award, notableRecipient, James Gosling]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Gosling Context triple: [Dr. Dobb’s Excellence in Programming Award, notableRecipient, James Gosling]
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A.
James Gosling
chosen
James Gosling is a Canadian computer scientist best known as the creator of the Java programming language.
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B.
Anders Hejlsberg
Anders Hejlsberg is a Danish software engineer best known for designing influential programming languages and development tools, including Turbo Pascal, Delphi, and later leading the design of C# and TypeScript at Microsoft.
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C.
Bill Joy
Bill Joy is an American computer scientist and software engineer best known as a co-founder of Sun Microsystems and a key developer of the Unix-based BSD operating system and the vi text editor.
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D.
Andy Bechtolsheim
Andy Bechtolsheim is a German-born electrical engineer, entrepreneur, and billionaire best known as a co-founder of Sun Microsystems and an early investor in Google.
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E.
Leonard Bosack
Leonard Bosack is an American computer engineer and entrepreneur best known as the co-founder of Cisco Systems, a pioneering company in computer networking and internet infrastructure.
- 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_69a64a5c9d248190b0bebfd0e999643a |
completed | March 3, 2026, 2:41 a.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:37 p.m.