Triple
T736456
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Maxwell's demon thought experiment |
E14943
|
entity |
| Predicate | inspiredWorkBy |
P6828
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
Charles H. Bennett
Charles H. Bennett is an American physicist and information theorist known as a founder of quantum information science, particularly for his work on quantum cryptography and the thermodynamics of information.
|
E94505
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (4 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: Charles H. Bennett | Statement: [Maxwell's demon thought experiment, inspiredWorkBy, Charles H. Bennett]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles H. Bennett Context triple: [Maxwell's demon thought experiment, inspiredWorkBy, Charles H. Bennett]
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A.
Rolf Landauer
Rolf Landauer was a German-American physicist best known for formulating Landauer's principle, which links information theory and thermodynamics by quantifying the minimum possible energy cost of erasing a bit of information.
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B.
Leonard Adleman
Leonard Adleman is an American computer scientist and cryptographer best known as one of the co-inventors of the RSA public-key cryptosystem.
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C.
Manuel Blum
Manuel Blum is a Venezuelan-American computer scientist and Turing Award laureate renowned for his foundational contributions to computational complexity theory and cryptography.
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D.
Elwyn R. Berlekamp
Elwyn R. Berlekamp was an American mathematician and engineer known for his influential work in coding theory, combinatorial game theory, and algorithms.
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E.
Ralph Merkle
Ralph Merkle is an American computer scientist and cryptographer known as a pioneer of public-key cryptography and for contributions such as Merkle trees and Merkle–Damgård hashing.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NEDg
Description generation
gpt-5.1
Instruction
Generate a one-sentence description of the target entity. You are given a context triple in the form (subject, predicate, object), where the object is the target entity. # Instructions Use the triple to infer relevant information about the entity. Describe the entity based on what is most defining, well-known. Avoid repeating the information from the triple, unless really essential. # Response Format Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the target entity]"
Input
Entity: Charles H. Bennett Triple: [Maxwell's demon thought experiment, inspiredWorkBy, Charles H. Bennett]
Generated description
Charles H. Bennett is an American physicist and information theorist known as a founder of quantum information science, particularly for his work on quantum cryptography and the thermodynamics of information.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles H. Bennett Target entity description: Charles H. Bennett is an American physicist and information theorist known as a founder of quantum information science, particularly for his work on quantum cryptography and the thermodynamics of information.
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A.
Rolf Landauer
Rolf Landauer was a German-American physicist best known for formulating Landauer's principle, which links information theory and thermodynamics by quantifying the minimum possible energy cost of erasing a bit of information.
-
B.
Leonard Adleman
Leonard Adleman is an American computer scientist and cryptographer best known as one of the co-inventors of the RSA public-key cryptosystem.
-
C.
Manuel Blum
Manuel Blum is a Venezuelan-American computer scientist and Turing Award laureate renowned for his foundational contributions to computational complexity theory and cryptography.
-
D.
Elwyn R. Berlekamp
Elwyn R. Berlekamp was an American mathematician and engineer known for his influential work in coding theory, combinatorial game theory, and algorithms.
-
E.
Ralph Merkle
Ralph Merkle is an American computer scientist and cryptographer known as a pioneer of public-key cryptography and for contributions such as Merkle trees and Merkle–Damgård hashing.
- F. None of above. chosen
Provenance (5 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_69a4934d9930819099eed80096b0597d |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4aa9ba3888190889a1ad554f73c5e |
completed | March 1, 2026, 9:07 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a67ef89a848190beaf6d1dab0ae331 |
completed | March 3, 2026, 6:26 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69a682ddc2a48190a1c8418e496674b2 |
completed | March 3, 2026, 6:42 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69a683366f548190a2b804e0cd625e92 |
completed | March 3, 2026, 6:44 a.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:37 p.m.