Triple

T9560488
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Forney E230658 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object David A. Forney
David A. Forney is an American electrical engineer and information theorist known for his pioneering contributions to coding theory and telecommunications.
E807786 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: David A. Forney | Statement: [Forney, hasNotableBearer, David A. Forney]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David A. Forney
Context triple: [Forney, hasNotableBearer, David A. Forney]
  • A. Matthias N. Forney
    Matthias N. Forney was a 19th-century American mechanical engineer and locomotive designer who played a key role in the early professionalization of mechanical engineering in the United States.
  • B. David H. Brown
    David H. Brown was one of the defendants tried alongside Dr. Ossian Sweet in the landmark 1925 Detroit case involving racial tensions, self-defense, and housing segregation.
  • C. David R. Francis
    David R. Francis was an American politician and diplomat who served as mayor of St. Louis, governor of Missouri, and U.S. ambassador to Russia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. John C. Martin
    John C. Martin was an American pharmaceutical executive and scientist best known for leading Gilead Sciences’ rise into a major biopharmaceutical company, particularly in antiviral and HIV/hepatitis C treatments.
  • E. Douglas J. Foskett
    Douglas J. Foskett was a British librarian and information scientist known for his influential work in library classification and information retrieval.
  • 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: David A. Forney
Triple: [Forney, hasNotableBearer, David A. Forney]
Generated description
David A. Forney is an American electrical engineer and information theorist known for his pioneering contributions to coding theory and telecommunications.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David A. Forney
Target entity description: David A. Forney is an American electrical engineer and information theorist known for his pioneering contributions to coding theory and telecommunications.
  • A. Matthias N. Forney
    Matthias N. Forney was a 19th-century American mechanical engineer and locomotive designer who played a key role in the early professionalization of mechanical engineering in the United States.
  • B. David H. Brown
    David H. Brown was one of the defendants tried alongside Dr. Ossian Sweet in the landmark 1925 Detroit case involving racial tensions, self-defense, and housing segregation.
  • C. David R. Francis
    David R. Francis was an American politician and diplomat who served as mayor of St. Louis, governor of Missouri, and U.S. ambassador to Russia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • D. John C. Martin
    John C. Martin was an American pharmaceutical executive and scientist best known for leading Gilead Sciences’ rise into a major biopharmaceutical company, particularly in antiviral and HIV/hepatitis C treatments.
  • E. Douglas J. Foskett
    Douglas J. Foskett was a British librarian and information scientist known for his influential work in library classification and information retrieval.
  • 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_69ca847e53a88190a60eed7e02257f10 completed March 30, 2026, 2:11 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69cd994bde0c8190afcba5cb8fa8b984 completed April 1, 2026, 10:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d1529b4974819096e26153c60bf05c completed April 4, 2026, 6:04 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d1567f587c8190898d261ce7db4df0 completed April 4, 2026, 6:20 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d156f3f3e48190b5b31cc28cfd703a completed April 4, 2026, 6:22 p.m.
Created at: March 30, 2026, 8:03 p.m.