Triple

T97281
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Cavendish Laboratory E1959 entity
Predicate associatedWithPerson P37 FINISHED
Object Brian Pippard
Brian Pippard was a prominent British physicist known for his pioneering work in superconductivity and for serving as Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge.
E62520 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: Brian Pippard | Statement: [Cavendish Laboratory, associatedWithPerson, Brian Pippard]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brian Pippard
Context triple: [Cavendish Laboratory, associatedWithPerson, Brian Pippard]
  • A. Peter Sargeant
    Peter Sargeant was a colonial-era jurist who served as a judge on the Court of Oyer and Terminer.
  • B. Alan Cottrell
    Alan Cottrell was a prominent British metallurgist and materials scientist renowned for his pioneering work on the mechanical properties of metals and their defects.
  • C. Derek Dowding
    Derek Dowding was a Royal Air Force officer and the son of Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding, noted for his own distinguished service in military aviation.
  • D. Andrew Logan
    Andrew Logan is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the 2017 historical drama film "Chappaquiddick," which explores the 1969 incident involving Senator Ted Kennedy.
  • E. Rob McKenna
    Rob McKenna is an American attorney and politician best known for serving as the Attorney General of Washington State.
  • 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: Brian Pippard
Triple: [Cavendish Laboratory, associatedWithPerson, Brian Pippard]
Generated description
Brian Pippard was a prominent British physicist known for his pioneering work in superconductivity and for serving as Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brian Pippard
Target entity description: Brian Pippard was a prominent British physicist known for his pioneering work in superconductivity and for serving as Cavendish Professor of Physics at the University of Cambridge.
  • A. Peter Sargeant
    Peter Sargeant was a colonial-era jurist who served as a judge on the Court of Oyer and Terminer.
  • B. Alan Cottrell
    Alan Cottrell was a prominent British metallurgist and materials scientist renowned for his pioneering work on the mechanical properties of metals and their defects.
  • C. Derek Dowding
    Derek Dowding was a Royal Air Force officer and the son of Air Chief Marshal Hugh Dowding, noted for his own distinguished service in military aviation.
  • D. Andrew Logan
    Andrew Logan is an American screenwriter best known for co-writing the 2017 historical drama film "Chappaquiddick," which explores the 1969 incident involving Senator Ted Kennedy.
  • E. Rob McKenna
    Rob McKenna is an American attorney and politician best known for serving as the Attorney General of Washington State.
  • 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_69a24d4862f881908cc8b89d3a78031d completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:04 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a24fd5cecc8190aca5fb4c4fe91a19 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:15 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a4853b6d4c81908a777bd61f13be44 completed March 1, 2026, 6:28 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a4862408b0819086f98194b6b1266f completed March 1, 2026, 6:32 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a4866e95b081909d0c2203727c44a6 completed March 1, 2026, 6:33 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:09 a.m.