Triple

T8407897
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Richard Muller E198545 entity
Predicate name P16 FINISHED
Object Richard A. Muller
Richard A. Muller is an American physicist and professor emeritus at UC Berkeley known for his work in astrophysics, climate science, and for founding the Berkeley Earth temperature analysis project.
E731388 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: Richard A. Muller | Statement: [Richard Muller, name, Richard A. Muller]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard A. Muller
Context triple: [Richard Muller, name, Richard A. Muller]
  • A. James R. Hansen
    James R. Hansen is an American historian and author best known for writing the authorized biography of astronaut Neil Armstrong.
  • B. Stephen J. Rivele
    Stephen J. Rivele is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing acclaimed biographical and historical films such as "Nixon" and "Ali."
  • C. Michael Lehmann
    Michael Lehmann is an American film and television director best known for the dark comedy "Heathers" and various other Hollywood comedies.
  • D. Charles Klauder
    Charles Klauder was an American architect best known for designing monumental collegiate Gothic and campus buildings in the early 20th century.
  • E. Stanley Corrsin
    Stanley Corrsin was a prominent American fluid dynamicist renowned for his pioneering contributions to the study of turbulence and mixing in fluid flows.
  • 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: Richard A. Muller
Triple: [Richard Muller, name, Richard A. Muller]
Generated description
Richard A. Muller is an American physicist and professor emeritus at UC Berkeley known for his work in astrophysics, climate science, and for founding the Berkeley Earth temperature analysis project.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard A. Muller
Target entity description: Richard A. Muller is an American physicist and professor emeritus at UC Berkeley known for his work in astrophysics, climate science, and for founding the Berkeley Earth temperature analysis project.
  • A. James R. Hansen
    James R. Hansen is an American historian and author best known for writing the authorized biography of astronaut Neil Armstrong.
  • B. Stephen J. Rivele
    Stephen J. Rivele is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing acclaimed biographical and historical films such as "Nixon" and "Ali."
  • C. Michael Lehmann
    Michael Lehmann is an American film and television director best known for the dark comedy "Heathers" and various other Hollywood comedies.
  • D. Charles Klauder
    Charles Klauder was an American architect best known for designing monumental collegiate Gothic and campus buildings in the early 20th century.
  • E. Stanley Corrsin
    Stanley Corrsin was a prominent American fluid dynamicist renowned for his pioneering contributions to the study of turbulence and mixing in fluid flows.
  • 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_69ca8310df9c8190b25f16161cca3e41 completed March 30, 2026, 2:05 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cb8315a8a8819097f6da11b909b527 completed March 31, 2026, 8:17 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ce030dccf08190a70c0abf0bdcf244 completed April 2, 2026, 5:47 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ce07808098819087e896b87320aefd completed April 2, 2026, 6:06 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ce08759e1c81909c96caf3b571e1ca completed April 2, 2026, 6:11 a.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:05 p.m.