Triple
T9466842
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Harold Edgerton |
E228292
|
entity |
| Predicate | fullName |
P16
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Harold Eugene Edgerton |
E228292
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Harold Eugene Edgerton | Statement: [Harold Edgerton, fullName, Harold Eugene Edgerton]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harold Eugene Edgerton Context triple: [Harold Edgerton, fullName, Harold Eugene Edgerton]
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A.
Harold Edgerton
chosen
Harold Edgerton was an American electrical engineer and MIT professor best known for pioneering high-speed stroboscopic photography, capturing iconic images of fast phenomena like bullets piercing apples and milk-drop coronets.
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B.
Harold Weiss
Harold Weiss is a personal name shared by multiple individuals, and without additional context it does not refer to a single widely recognized public figure.
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C.
Willard Boyle
Willard Boyle was a Canadian physicist and Nobel laureate best known for co-inventing the charge-coupled device (CCD), a technology fundamental to digital imaging.
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D.
George Heilmeier
George Heilmeier was an American engineer and inventor best known for pioneering liquid crystal display (LCD) technology and later leading major research organizations in industry and government.
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E.
Charles Stark Draper
Charles Stark Draper was an American engineer and scientist renowned as the "father of inertial navigation" for his pioneering work in guidance and control systems.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69ca846fee388190a6ec273fd644b88b |
completed | March 30, 2026, 2:10 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69cd7fdd7d048190930a15cb2a2d99ea |
completed | April 1, 2026, 8:28 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d122ba3d948190a3fa947cd3cad63b |
completed | April 4, 2026, 2:39 p.m. |
Created at: March 30, 2026, 7:53 p.m.