Triple

T7299659
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Cockcroft E167811 entity
Predicate notableStudentOrCollaborator P25977 FINISHED
Object Ernest Walton E143306 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: Ernest Walton | Statement: [John Cockcroft, notableStudentOrCollaborator, Ernest Walton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: Ernest Walton
Context triple: [John Cockcroft, notableStudentOrCollaborator, Ernest Walton]
  • A. Ernest Walton chosen
    Ernest Walton was an Irish physicist and Nobel laureate best known for co-developing the Cockcroft–Walton accelerator, which achieved the first artificial nuclear disintegration.
  • B. John Cockcroft
    John Cockcroft was a British physicist and Nobel laureate best known for splitting the atomic nucleus with Ernest Walton, pioneering early nuclear physics and contributing to the development of nuclear energy.
  • C. James Chadwick
    James Chadwick was a British physicist best known for discovering the neutron and later playing a major scientific leadership role in the development of nuclear weapons during World War II.
  • D. Cecil F. Powell
    Cecil F. Powell was a British physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in particle physics using photographic emulsion techniques.
  • E. Ernest Marsden
    Ernest Marsden was a British-New Zealand physicist best known for co-conducting the gold foil experiment that led to the discovery of the atomic nucleus.
  • 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_69c6888c820881909fc68f689fe1c251 completed March 27, 2026, 1:39 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6ebad1b4481909e49ccc580007e4b completed March 27, 2026, 8:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c7e550645c819085effd46dff60f09 completed March 28, 2026, 2:27 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:01 p.m.