Triple
T769417
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory |
E16246
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableEmployee |
P304
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Sheldon Roberts |
E74034
|
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: Sheldon Roberts | Statement: [Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, notableEmployee, Sheldon Roberts]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sheldon Roberts Context triple: [Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, notableEmployee, Sheldon Roberts]
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A.
Sheldon Roberts
chosen
Sheldon Roberts was an American engineer and semiconductor pioneer best known as one of the "Traitorous Eight" who left Shockley Semiconductor to found Fairchild Semiconductor, helping launch Silicon Valley’s modern electronics industry.
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B.
Sheldon Lane
Sheldon Lane is an individual notable enough to be recognized as a prominent bearer of the surname Lane.
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C.
Richard Feynman
Richard Feynman was a pioneering American theoretical physicist renowned for his work in quantum electrodynamics, his influential teaching, and his popular science writings.
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D.
James M. Bardeen
James M. Bardeen is an American theoretical physicist known for his influential work in general relativity and black hole physics, including contributions to the understanding of Hawking radiation and cosmological perturbation theory.
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E.
Carl Feynman
Carl Feynman is the son of renowned physicist Richard Feynman and a software engineer known for his work in computer science and technology.
- 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_69a66678f7ac819095eafccf44c6588e |
completed | March 3, 2026, 4:41 a.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:37 p.m.