Triple

T17386158
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Shannon Award E422691 entity
Predicate hasRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Toby Berger
Toby Berger was a prominent American information theorist and electrical engineer known for his influential contributions to source coding, data compression, and communication theory.
E1266003 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: Toby Berger | Statement: [Shannon Award, hasRecipient, Toby Berger]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Toby Berger
Context triple: [Shannon Award, hasRecipient, Toby Berger]
  • A. Andrew A. Benson
    Andrew A. Benson was an American biochemist best known for his key role in elucidating the carbon fixation pathway in photosynthesis, work closely associated with the Calvin–Benson cycle.
  • B. John Boettiger
    John Boettiger was an American journalist and newspaper publisher best known as the second husband of Anna Roosevelt, daughter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • C. John Beeman
    John Beeman was an early Texas settler associated with the pioneering families connected to John Neely Bryan, the founder of Dallas.
  • D. Stanley Bleifeld
    Stanley Bleifeld was an American sculptor known for his figurative bronze works and prominent public monuments, including major pieces for the United States Navy Memorial in Washington, D.C.
  • E. Kevin Bewersdorf
    Kevin Bewersdorf is an American artist, musician, and actor associated with the early mumblecore film movement and known for his work in experimental cinema and internet art.
  • 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: Toby Berger
Triple: [Shannon Award, hasRecipient, Toby Berger]
Generated description
Toby Berger was a prominent American information theorist and electrical engineer known for his influential contributions to source coding, data compression, and communication theory.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Toby Berger
Target entity description: Toby Berger was a prominent American information theorist and electrical engineer known for his influential contributions to source coding, data compression, and communication theory.
  • A. Andrew A. Benson
    Andrew A. Benson was an American biochemist best known for his key role in elucidating the carbon fixation pathway in photosynthesis, work closely associated with the Calvin–Benson cycle.
  • B. John Boettiger
    John Boettiger was an American journalist and newspaper publisher best known as the second husband of Anna Roosevelt, daughter of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • C. John Beeman
    John Beeman was an early Texas settler associated with the pioneering families connected to John Neely Bryan, the founder of Dallas.
  • D. Stanley Bleifeld
    Stanley Bleifeld was an American sculptor known for his figurative bronze works and prominent public monuments, including major pieces for the United States Navy Memorial in Washington, D.C.
  • E. Kevin Bewersdorf
    Kevin Bewersdorf is an American artist, musician, and actor associated with the early mumblecore film movement and known for his work in experimental cinema and internet art.
  • 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_69d889d710288190bf0f4762801fefae completed April 10, 2026, 5:25 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e43a89c5008190a277a68e5cfe67b7 completed April 19, 2026, 2:14 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a019ff95e7c81909564abc3fe319611 completed May 11, 2026, 9:23 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a01a0c2f1108190b3cdabdcd3da7253 completed May 11, 2026, 9:26 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a01a14aeab881908abf4ec28164ba84 completed May 11, 2026, 9:28 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:45 a.m.