Triple

T818883
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Franklin Medal E17707 entity
Predicate notableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Irving Langmuir
Irving Langmuir was an American chemist and physicist renowned for his pioneering work in surface chemistry, for which he received the 1932 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
E102396 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: Irving Langmuir | Statement: [Franklin Medal, notableRecipient, Irving Langmuir]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Irving Langmuir
Context triple: [Franklin Medal, notableRecipient, Irving Langmuir]
  • A. Percy W. Bridgman
    Percy W. Bridgman was an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in high-pressure physics and for developing the philosophical approach known as operationalism.
  • B. James Franck
    James Franck was a German-born physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for the Franck–Hertz experiment and his later work on the Manhattan Project in the United States.
  • C. Robert A. Millikan
    Robert A. Millikan was an American experimental physicist best known for his oil-drop experiment measuring the electron’s charge and for his Nobel Prize–winning work on the photoelectric effect.
  • D. Harold Urey
    Harold Urey was an American physical chemist and Nobel laureate best known for discovering deuterium and contributing to theories on the origin of the Earth and solar system.
  • E. I. I. Rabi
    I. I. Rabi was a Nobel Prize–winning American physicist renowned for his pioneering work in nuclear magnetic resonance and contributions to quantum physics.
  • 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: Irving Langmuir
Triple: [Franklin Medal, notableRecipient, Irving Langmuir]
Generated description
Irving Langmuir was an American chemist and physicist renowned for his pioneering work in surface chemistry, for which he received the 1932 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Irving Langmuir
Target entity description: Irving Langmuir was an American chemist and physicist renowned for his pioneering work in surface chemistry, for which he received the 1932 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
  • A. Percy W. Bridgman
    Percy W. Bridgman was an American physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering work in high-pressure physics and for developing the philosophical approach known as operationalism.
  • B. James Franck
    James Franck was a German-born physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for the Franck–Hertz experiment and his later work on the Manhattan Project in the United States.
  • C. Robert A. Millikan
    Robert A. Millikan was an American experimental physicist best known for his oil-drop experiment measuring the electron’s charge and for his Nobel Prize–winning work on the photoelectric effect.
  • D. Harold Urey
    Harold Urey was an American physical chemist and Nobel laureate best known for discovering deuterium and contributing to theories on the origin of the Earth and solar system.
  • E. I. I. Rabi
    I. I. Rabi was a Nobel Prize–winning American physicist renowned for his pioneering work in nuclear magnetic resonance and contributions to quantum physics.
  • 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_69a4937bcaac8190a322524ac6f45a5a completed March 1, 2026, 7:28 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4ab656418819091ecb09e7ede2825 completed March 1, 2026, 9:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7a3b47ba481908a8db2bec414a3e4 completed March 4, 2026, 3:15 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7a563fa3c81908078cb9b07e28695 completed March 4, 2026, 3:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7a5c2a95c8190b0d0a385ef035880 completed March 4, 2026, 3:23 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:38 p.m.