Triple

T871224
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sebastian Thrun E18816 entity
Predicate coAuthor P398 FINISHED
Object Wolfram Burgard
Wolfram Burgard is a German computer scientist and roboticist known for his influential work in probabilistic robotics, autonomous navigation, and artificial intelligence.
E110251 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: Wolfram Burgard | Statement: [Sebastian Thrun, coAuthor, Wolfram Burgard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wolfram Burgard
Context triple: [Sebastian Thrun, coAuthor, Wolfram Burgard]
  • A. David M. Brown
    David M. Brown was a U.S. Navy captain and NASA astronaut who served as a mission specialist on the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia STS-107 mission.
  • B. Howie Choset
    Howie Choset is an American roboticist known for his work on snake robots and modular robotics, and a professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
  • C. Rodney Brooks
    Rodney Brooks is an influential roboticist and AI researcher known for pioneering behavior-based robotics and co-founding iRobot and Rethink Robotics.
  • D. Michael P. Brenner
    Michael P. Brenner is an American applied mathematician and physicist known for his influential work in fluid dynamics and complex systems.
  • E. Dario Amodei
    Dario Amodei is an AI researcher and entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic and former OpenAI research leader known for his work on large language models and AI safety.
  • 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: Wolfram Burgard
Triple: [Sebastian Thrun, coAuthor, Wolfram Burgard]
Generated description
Wolfram Burgard is a German computer scientist and roboticist known for his influential work in probabilistic robotics, autonomous navigation, and artificial intelligence.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Wolfram Burgard
Target entity description: Wolfram Burgard is a German computer scientist and roboticist known for his influential work in probabilistic robotics, autonomous navigation, and artificial intelligence.
  • A. David M. Brown
    David M. Brown was a U.S. Navy captain and NASA astronaut who served as a mission specialist on the ill-fated Space Shuttle Columbia STS-107 mission.
  • B. Howie Choset
    Howie Choset is an American roboticist known for his work on snake robots and modular robotics, and a professor at Carnegie Mellon University.
  • C. Rodney Brooks
    Rodney Brooks is an influential roboticist and AI researcher known for pioneering behavior-based robotics and co-founding iRobot and Rethink Robotics.
  • D. Michael P. Brenner
    Michael P. Brenner is an American applied mathematician and physicist known for his influential work in fluid dynamics and complex systems.
  • E. Dario Amodei
    Dario Amodei is an AI researcher and entrepreneur, co-founder and CEO of Anthropic and former OpenAI research leader known for his work on large language models and AI safety.
  • 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_69a4938db1f081909bcd1ad2713b6096 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4ac94d5ac81909feee876696da589 completed March 1, 2026, 9:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a7ee0053d88190be8705b42d172ab7 completed March 4, 2026, 8:32 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a7f91fa98c81908461b9b29db18eb3 completed March 4, 2026, 9:19 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a7f997edb081909d82b13ec88d3f9f completed March 4, 2026, 9:21 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:39 p.m.