Triple

T12887853
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Elmer Imes E308275 entity
Predicate doctoralAdvisor P167 FINISHED
Object Harrison M. Randall
Harrison M. Randall was an American physicist and longtime University of Michigan professor known for his influential work in infrared spectroscopy and the training of prominent early 20th-century physicists.
E1523861 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: Harrison M. Randall | Statement: [Elmer Imes, doctoralAdvisor, Harrison M. Randall]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harrison M. Randall
Context triple: [Elmer Imes, doctoralAdvisor, Harrison M. Randall]
  • A. William A. Rutherford
    William A. Rutherford was a landscape designer known for shaping the grounds of major cultural sites such as the Storm King Art Center.
  • B. John B. Gough
    John B. Gough was a 19th-century American orator and reformer renowned for his powerful speeches advocating abstinence from alcohol and promoting the temperance cause.
  • C. Benjamin L. Willard
    Benjamin L. Willard is the troubled U.S. Army officer and central protagonist of the film "Apocalypse Now," tasked with a covert mission into Cambodia during the Vietnam War.
  • D. John E. Caldwell
    John E. Caldwell is a business executive known for his leadership role as chairperson of semiconductor company Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
  • E. William B. Woods
    William B. Woods was a 19th-century Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court known for his conservative rulings during the Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction eras.
  • 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: Harrison M. Randall
Triple: [Elmer Imes, doctoralAdvisor, Harrison M. Randall]
Generated description
Harrison M. Randall was an American physicist and longtime University of Michigan professor known for his influential work in infrared spectroscopy and the training of prominent early 20th-century physicists.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Harrison M. Randall
Target entity description: Harrison M. Randall was an American physicist and longtime University of Michigan professor known for his influential work in infrared spectroscopy and the training of prominent early 20th-century physicists.
  • A. William A. Rutherford
    William A. Rutherford was a landscape designer known for shaping the grounds of major cultural sites such as the Storm King Art Center.
  • B. John B. Gough
    John B. Gough was a 19th-century American orator and reformer renowned for his powerful speeches advocating abstinence from alcohol and promoting the temperance cause.
  • C. Benjamin L. Willard
    Benjamin L. Willard is the troubled U.S. Army officer and central protagonist of the film "Apocalypse Now," tasked with a covert mission into Cambodia during the Vietnam War.
  • D. John E. Caldwell
    John E. Caldwell is a business executive known for his leadership role as chairperson of semiconductor company Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
  • E. William B. Woods
    William B. Woods was a 19th-century Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court known for his conservative rulings during the Reconstruction and post-Reconstruction eras.
  • 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_69d7bdf7c1f0819098102569a8d8cbf5 completed April 9, 2026, 2:55 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d9714581988190afc720ffd7797860 completed April 10, 2026, 9:53 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0aa5f6d594819090eb308f6c8e969c completed May 18, 2026, 5:39 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0aa6682a508190b3d3b6ffbb10e3c5 completed May 18, 2026, 5:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0aa6d69a2c81908cb731690f417345 completed May 18, 2026, 5:42 a.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 5:39 p.m.