Triple

T854844
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Latimer Hall E18467 entity
Predicate namedAfter P63 FINISHED
Object Wendell Mitchell Latimer
Wendell Mitchell Latimer was an American chemist known for his influential work in thermodynamics and chemical bonding, particularly at the University of California, Berkeley.
E105397 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: Wendell Mitchell Latimer | Statement: [Latimer Hall, namedAfter, Wendell Mitchell Latimer]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wendell Mitchell Latimer
Context triple: [Latimer Hall, namedAfter, Wendell Mitchell Latimer]
  • A. Mark Oliphant
    Mark Oliphant was an Australian physicist and pioneer in nuclear physics who played a key role in early atomic research and the development of radar and particle accelerators.
  • B. William Maxwell Aitken
    William Maxwell Aitken, better known as Lord Beaverbrook, was a powerful Canadian-British newspaper magnate and influential political figure in early 20th-century Britain.
  • C. Arthur Geoffrey Walker
    Arthur Geoffrey Walker was a British mathematician and physicist best known for his foundational contributions to relativistic cosmology, particularly the development of the Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker (FLRW) metric.
  • D. Charles Glover Barkla
    Charles Glover Barkla was a British physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering research on X-ray spectroscopy and the characteristic radiation of elements.
  • E. Robert B. Leighton
    Robert B. Leighton was an American experimental physicist and educator known for his contributions to cosmic-ray and infrared astronomy and for coauthoring the influential Feynman Lectures on 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: Wendell Mitchell Latimer
Triple: [Latimer Hall, namedAfter, Wendell Mitchell Latimer]
Generated description
Wendell Mitchell Latimer was an American chemist known for his influential work in thermodynamics and chemical bonding, particularly at the University of California, Berkeley.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wendell Mitchell Latimer
Target entity description: Wendell Mitchell Latimer was an American chemist known for his influential work in thermodynamics and chemical bonding, particularly at the University of California, Berkeley.
  • A. Mark Oliphant
    Mark Oliphant was an Australian physicist and pioneer in nuclear physics who played a key role in early atomic research and the development of radar and particle accelerators.
  • B. William Maxwell Aitken
    William Maxwell Aitken, better known as Lord Beaverbrook, was a powerful Canadian-British newspaper magnate and influential political figure in early 20th-century Britain.
  • C. Arthur Geoffrey Walker
    Arthur Geoffrey Walker was a British mathematician and physicist best known for his foundational contributions to relativistic cosmology, particularly the development of the Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker (FLRW) metric.
  • D. Charles Glover Barkla
    Charles Glover Barkla was a British physicist and Nobel laureate renowned for his pioneering research on X-ray spectroscopy and the characteristic radiation of elements.
  • E. Robert B. Leighton
    Robert B. Leighton was an American experimental physicist and educator known for his contributions to cosmic-ray and infrared astronomy and for coauthoring the influential Feynman Lectures on 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_69a4938bdd3c8190a954a3c11844d9cf completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4ac3a48c08190b4677d825fcbfaf9 completed March 1, 2026, 9:14 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7c016a8a88190965e7c703b0329fb completed March 4, 2026, 5:16 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7c1782d108190825ece29e7532bf6 completed March 4, 2026, 5:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7c21dd42881908ac19fed7454d7a9 completed March 4, 2026, 5:24 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:39 p.m.