Triple
T10987961
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Elbert Frank Cox |
E259678
|
entity |
| Predicate | notableStudent |
P4838
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
David Blackwell
David Blackwell was a pioneering American statistician and mathematician renowned for his contributions to game theory, probability, and information theory, and as one of the first African Americans elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
|
E898305
|
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 Blackwell | Statement: [Elbert Frank Cox, notableStudent, David Blackwell]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Blackwell Context triple: [Elbert Frank Cox, notableStudent, David Blackwell]
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A.
Leonard J. Savage
Leonard J. Savage was an influential American statistician and decision theorist best known for his foundational work on subjective probability and Bayesian statistics.
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B.
William Feller
William Feller was a Croatian-American mathematician renowned for his foundational contributions to probability theory and for co-developing key results such as the Lindeberg–Feller central limit theorem.
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C.
Herman Chernoff
Herman Chernoff is an American applied mathematician and statistician known for his influential contributions to statistical decision theory, large deviations, and the development of Chernoff bounds and Chernoff faces.
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D.
William Kruskal
William Kruskal was an American statistician best known for co-developing the Kruskal–Wallis test, a nonparametric method for comparing multiple groups.
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E.
Fred Mosteller
Fred Mosteller was an influential American statistician and educator known for his pioneering work in mathematical statistics, statistics education, and applications of statistics to public policy and medicine.
- 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 Blackwell Triple: [Elbert Frank Cox, notableStudent, David Blackwell]
Generated description
David Blackwell was a pioneering American statistician and mathematician renowned for his contributions to game theory, probability, and information theory, and as one of the first African Americans elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: David Blackwell Target entity description: David Blackwell was a pioneering American statistician and mathematician renowned for his contributions to game theory, probability, and information theory, and as one of the first African Americans elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
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A.
Leonard J. Savage
Leonard J. Savage was an influential American statistician and decision theorist best known for his foundational work on subjective probability and Bayesian statistics.
-
B.
William Feller
William Feller was a Croatian-American mathematician renowned for his foundational contributions to probability theory and for co-developing key results such as the Lindeberg–Feller central limit theorem.
-
C.
Herman Chernoff
Herman Chernoff is an American applied mathematician and statistician known for his influential contributions to statistical decision theory, large deviations, and the development of Chernoff bounds and Chernoff faces.
-
D.
William Kruskal
William Kruskal was an American statistician best known for co-developing the Kruskal–Wallis test, a nonparametric method for comparing multiple groups.
-
E.
Fred Mosteller
Fred Mosteller was an influential American statistician and educator known for his pioneering work in mathematical statistics, statistics education, and applications of statistics to public policy and medicine.
- 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_69d6aa8a6a548190a750f944ccdc8064 |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:20 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d787b574d08190adec34b814a26437 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 11:04 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69e344f95ab88190bbce8f0eab0b2713 |
completed | April 18, 2026, 8:46 a.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_69e3556e8b408190a02a1fe194ae5750 |
completed | April 18, 2026, 9:57 a.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_69e3591ecd548190b049ce95fe3f86d9 |
completed | April 18, 2026, 10:12 a.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:24 p.m.