Triple

T88735
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject IEEE Medal of Honor E1782 entity
Predicate notableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Charles K. Kao
Charles K. Kao was a pioneering physicist and electrical engineer known as the "father of fiber optics" for his groundbreaking work enabling high-speed optical fiber communications.
E19769 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: Charles K. Kao | Statement: [IEEE Medal of Honor, notableRecipient, Charles K. Kao]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles K. Kao
Context triple: [IEEE Medal of Honor, notableRecipient, Charles K. Kao]
  • A. Nick Holonyak Jr.
    Nick Holonyak Jr. was an American engineer and inventor best known for creating the first practical visible-spectrum LED, earning him recognition as a pioneer in semiconductor lighting technology.
  • B. William Shockley
    William Shockley was an American physicist and co-inventor of the transistor whose work helped launch the field of solid-state electronics and earned him a share of the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics.
  • C. Walter Brattain
    Walter Brattain was an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known as one of the co-inventors of the transistor.
  • D. John Bardeen
    John Bardeen was an American physicist and electrical engineer, uniquely renowned for being the only person to win the Nobel Prize in Physics twice for his work on the transistor and superconductivity.
  • E. Jerome H. Lemelson
    Jerome H. Lemelson was a prolific American inventor and patent holder known for his numerous innovations across diverse technological fields and for endowing major awards that support invention and entrepreneurship.
  • 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: Charles K. Kao
Triple: [IEEE Medal of Honor, notableRecipient, Charles K. Kao]
Generated description
Charles K. Kao was a pioneering physicist and electrical engineer known as the "father of fiber optics" for his groundbreaking work enabling high-speed optical fiber communications.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Charles K. Kao
Target entity description: Charles K. Kao was a pioneering physicist and electrical engineer known as the "father of fiber optics" for his groundbreaking work enabling high-speed optical fiber communications.
  • A. Nick Holonyak Jr.
    Nick Holonyak Jr. was an American engineer and inventor best known for creating the first practical visible-spectrum LED, earning him recognition as a pioneer in semiconductor lighting technology.
  • B. William Shockley
    William Shockley was an American physicist and co-inventor of the transistor whose work helped launch the field of solid-state electronics and earned him a share of the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics.
  • C. Walter Brattain
    Walter Brattain was an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known as one of the co-inventors of the transistor.
  • D. John Bardeen
    John Bardeen was an American physicist and electrical engineer, uniquely renowned for being the only person to win the Nobel Prize in Physics twice for his work on the transistor and superconductivity.
  • E. Jerome H. Lemelson
    Jerome H. Lemelson was a prolific American inventor and patent holder known for his numerous innovations across diverse technological fields and for endowing major awards that support invention and entrepreneurship.
  • 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_69a24d1a97dc819094e6c021fe9b05a7 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:04 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a24f6997c081908b202f937eb2b14f completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:14 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a2d4c666c481908d07d0e4912af055 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 11:43 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a2d54e6dc88190a2767a1722172923 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 11:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2d5afeb2c81909ca97f07856d2987 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 11:46 a.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:07 a.m.