Triple
T780098
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Walter Brattain |
E16476
|
entity |
| Predicate | familyName |
P18
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Brattain |
E16476
|
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: Brattain | Statement: [Walter Brattain, familyName, Brattain]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brattain Context triple: [Walter Brattain, familyName, Brattain]
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A.
Walter Brattain
chosen
Walter Brattain was an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known as one of the co-inventors of the transistor.
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B.
William Shockley
William Shockley was an American physicist and co-inventor of the transistor whose work helped launch the field of solid-state electronics and earned him a share of the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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C.
Harold Stephen Black
Harold Stephen Black was an American electrical engineer best known for inventing the negative feedback amplifier, a breakthrough that revolutionized electronics and communications.
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D.
John Bardeen
John Bardeen was an American physicist and electrical engineer, uniquely renowned for being the only person to win the Nobel Prize in Physics twice for his work on the transistor and superconductivity.
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E.
Jean Hoerni
Jean Hoerni was a Swiss-born physicist and engineer best known for inventing the planar process, a foundational technology that enabled the modern semiconductor and integrated circuit industry.
- 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_69a4936ad1fc81908f190208059ccf78 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4a750c6708190a3f2c3abf16b4ea4 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 8:53 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69a7a3adf1d88190acec593f0aca1ec0 |
completed | March 4, 2026, 3:14 a.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:37 p.m.