Triple
T769410
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory |
E16246
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableEmployee |
P304
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Julius Blank |
E118497
|
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: Julius Blank | Statement: [Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, notableEmployee, Julius Blank]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Julius Blank Context triple: [Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, notableEmployee, Julius Blank]
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A.
Julius Blank
chosen
Julius Blank was an engineer and entrepreneur best known as one of the “Traitorous Eight” who left Shockley Semiconductor to co-found Fairchild Semiconductor, helping launch Silicon Valley’s semiconductor industry.
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B.
Emil Sieg
Emil Sieg was a German linguist and philologist known for his pioneering work on Tocharian and other Indo-European languages.
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C.
August Zaleski
August Zaleski was a Polish diplomat and politician who served as President of Poland in exile after World War II.
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D.
Herman Saftleven
Herman Saftleven was a 17th-century Dutch painter and draughtsman known for his detailed river landscapes and topographical views.
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E.
Charles Weissmann
Charles Weissmann is a Swiss molecular biologist and biotechnology pioneer known for his groundbreaking work on interferons and prion diseases and for co-founding the biotech company Biogen.
- 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_69a49369a0848190af883934cee3db4c |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4a70376988190be2826259f5281ab |
completed | March 1, 2026, 8:52 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ac53753d308190928675f60e27d702 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 4:33 p.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:37 p.m.