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]
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.