Triple

T7433250
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Soviet atomic bomb project (indirectly, via espionage) E171541 entity
Predicate notableSpy P28504 FINISHED
Object Allan Nunn May
Allan Nunn May was a British physicist who became one of the first and most significant atomic spies, passing nuclear secrets from the UK to the Soviet Union during and after World War II.
E665460 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: Allan Nunn May | Statement: [Soviet atomic bomb project (indirectly, via espionage), notableSpy, Allan Nunn May]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Allan Nunn May
Context triple: [Soviet atomic bomb project (indirectly, via espionage), notableSpy, Allan Nunn May]
  • A. William Henry Pickering
    William Henry Pickering was an American astronomer known for his discoveries of planetary satellites and contributions to lunar and planetary observation.
  • B. Arthur A. Shurcliff
    Arthur A. Shurcliff was a prominent early 20th-century American landscape architect known for his work on major estates and historic restoration projects, including significant contributions to Colonial Revival design.
  • C. Edgar Odell Lovett
    Edgar Odell Lovett was an American mathematician and educator best known as the founding president of Rice University, where he played a central role in shaping the institution’s early development.
  • D. George C. Powell
    George C. Powell was the father of Lewis Powell, one of the conspirators involved in the assassination plot against U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
  • E. Louis D. Lighton
    Louis D. Lighton was an American film producer active during Hollywood’s studio era, known for overseeing a range of major motion pictures in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • 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: Allan Nunn May
Triple: [Soviet atomic bomb project (indirectly, via espionage), notableSpy, Allan Nunn May]
Generated description
Allan Nunn May was a British physicist who became one of the first and most significant atomic spies, passing nuclear secrets from the UK to the Soviet Union during and after World War II.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Allan Nunn May
Target entity description: Allan Nunn May was a British physicist who became one of the first and most significant atomic spies, passing nuclear secrets from the UK to the Soviet Union during and after World War II.
  • A. William Henry Pickering
    William Henry Pickering was an American astronomer known for his discoveries of planetary satellites and contributions to lunar and planetary observation.
  • B. Arthur A. Shurcliff
    Arthur A. Shurcliff was a prominent early 20th-century American landscape architect known for his work on major estates and historic restoration projects, including significant contributions to Colonial Revival design.
  • C. Edgar Odell Lovett
    Edgar Odell Lovett was an American mathematician and educator best known as the founding president of Rice University, where he played a central role in shaping the institution’s early development.
  • D. George C. Powell
    George C. Powell was the father of Lewis Powell, one of the conspirators involved in the assassination plot against U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
  • E. Louis D. Lighton
    Louis D. Lighton was an American film producer active during Hollywood’s studio era, known for overseeing a range of major motion pictures in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • 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_69c68a63491881909281f73d4d5643bf completed March 27, 2026, 1:47 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69c6f4ec85488190a1f7fb913e0fbe35 completed March 27, 2026, 9:21 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69c827829a848190afca7b5f79c51c7c completed March 28, 2026, 7:09 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69c828c8b0588190a5a99380dc25d837 completed March 28, 2026, 7:15 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69c8296962b48190b9f5cc4a66b93b91 completed March 28, 2026, 7:18 p.m.
Created at: March 27, 2026, 3:12 p.m.