Triple

T8926831
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Statistical Research Group at Columbia University E212556 entity
Predicate hasMember P10 FINISHED
Object Jacob Wolfowitz
Jacob Wolfowitz was a prominent 20th-century statistician and information theorist known for his foundational contributions to statistical decision theory, nonparametric statistics, and coding theory.
E766791 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: Jacob Wolfowitz | Statement: [Statistical Research Group at Columbia University, hasMember, Jacob Wolfowitz]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jacob Wolfowitz
Context triple: [Statistical Research Group at Columbia University, hasMember, Jacob Wolfowitz]
  • A. Paul Wolfowitz
    Paul Wolfowitz is an American political scientist and diplomat best known for serving as U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense and later as President of the World Bank, and for his influential role in shaping neoconservative U.S. foreign policy.
  • B. Richard Perle
    Richard Perle is an American neoconservative political advisor and former Pentagon official known for his influential role in shaping U.S. defense and foreign policy, particularly during the Reagan and George W. Bush administrations.
  • C. George Friedman
    George Friedman is a geopolitical forecaster and author best known as the founder of the private intelligence and forecasting firm Stratfor and later Geopolitical Futures.
  • D. Dov S. Zakheim
    Dov S. Zakheim is an American economist, rabbi, and former U.S. Department of Defense official who served as Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) and is known for his work on defense policy and budgeting.
  • E. Scott Rothkopf
    Scott Rothkopf is an American art curator and museum director known for his leadership and influential exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
  • 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: Jacob Wolfowitz
Triple: [Statistical Research Group at Columbia University, hasMember, Jacob Wolfowitz]
Generated description
Jacob Wolfowitz was a prominent 20th-century statistician and information theorist known for his foundational contributions to statistical decision theory, nonparametric statistics, and coding theory.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Jacob Wolfowitz
Target entity description: Jacob Wolfowitz was a prominent 20th-century statistician and information theorist known for his foundational contributions to statistical decision theory, nonparametric statistics, and coding theory.
  • A. Paul Wolfowitz
    Paul Wolfowitz is an American political scientist and diplomat best known for serving as U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense and later as President of the World Bank, and for his influential role in shaping neoconservative U.S. foreign policy.
  • B. Richard Perle
    Richard Perle is an American neoconservative political advisor and former Pentagon official known for his influential role in shaping U.S. defense and foreign policy, particularly during the Reagan and George W. Bush administrations.
  • C. George Friedman
    George Friedman is a geopolitical forecaster and author best known as the founder of the private intelligence and forecasting firm Stratfor and later Geopolitical Futures.
  • D. Dov S. Zakheim
    Dov S. Zakheim is an American economist, rabbi, and former U.S. Department of Defense official who served as Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) and is known for his work on defense policy and budgeting.
  • E. Scott Rothkopf
    Scott Rothkopf is an American art curator and museum director known for his leadership and influential exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
  • 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_69ca839481d48190b42b037e0d0f636c completed March 30, 2026, 2:07 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cc6671557c81909f3837ffd6a15ffe completed April 1, 2026, 12:27 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69cfba58e9ec81909141c516d05ac790 completed April 3, 2026, 1:02 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69cfbade9330819096d4b0eeacdad6da completed April 3, 2026, 1:04 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69cfbec2b8888190a0390168fdcef05f completed April 3, 2026, 1:21 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 6:57 p.m.