Triple
T990125
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Hermann Weyl |
E21368
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableStudent |
P4838
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Saunders Mac Lane |
E29380
|
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: Saunders Mac Lane | Statement: [Hermann Weyl, notableStudent, Saunders Mac Lane]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Saunders Mac Lane Context triple: [Hermann Weyl, notableStudent, Saunders Mac Lane]
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A.
Saunders Mac Lane
chosen
Saunders Mac Lane was an American mathematician best known as a co-founder of category theory and for his influential work in algebra and homological algebra.
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B.
Hassler Whitney
Hassler Whitney was an influential American mathematician known for foundational contributions to differential topology and geometry, including work on manifolds, embeddings, and singularities.
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C.
Solomon Lefschetz
Solomon Lefschetz was a prominent 20th-century mathematician best known for his foundational work in algebraic topology and geometry, including the development of Lefschetz fixed-point theory.
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D.
Gian-Carlo Rota
Gian-Carlo Rota was an influential Italian-American mathematician and philosopher best known for his foundational work in combinatorics and probability, as well as his impactful essays on the philosophy of mathematics.
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E.
Isadore Singer
Isadore Singer was an American mathematician renowned for co-formulating the Atiyah–Singer Index Theorem, a foundational result linking analysis, topology, and geometry.
- 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_69a493c383dc8190a03257f22d4b4183 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4b4ac27e081908f132115464667b2 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 9:50 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69ac258d9f4c8190b285455410b30575 |
completed | March 7, 2026, 1:18 p.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:41 p.m.