Triple
T8095338
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Arno Penzias |
E188968
|
entity |
| Predicate | doctoralAdvisor |
P167
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Charles H. Townes |
E33227
|
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: Charles H. Townes | Statement: [Arno Penzias, doctoralAdvisor, Charles H. Townes]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles H. Townes Context triple: [Arno Penzias, doctoralAdvisor, Charles H. Townes]
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A.
Charles Hard Townes
chosen
Charles Hard Townes was an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known for his pioneering work in quantum electronics that led to the development of the maser and laser.
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B.
Norman Ramsey
Norman Ramsey was an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for developing the separated oscillatory field method, which enabled highly precise atomic clocks and advanced nuclear magnetic resonance techniques.
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C.
Roy Glauber
Roy Glauber was an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in quantum optics and the quantum theory of optical coherence.
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D.
Willis Eugene Lamb
Willis Eugene Lamb was an American physicist renowned for his precise measurements of the hydrogen spectrum (the Lamb shift), which profoundly influenced quantum electrodynamics and earned him a share of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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E.
William D. Phillips
William D. Phillips is an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in laser cooling and trapping of atoms.
- 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_69ca82b7b3e88190b9041ab0ef28b3cb |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:03 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cb4291f1d4819098985ac2b20b6c75 |
completed | March 31, 2026, 3:42 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69cc6414ca048190ac0e644b2c399bfb |
completed | April 1, 2026, 12:17 a.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 5:30 p.m.