Triple

T17671633
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Goro Shimura E440532 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object The Map of My Life: The Story of a Japanese Mathematician
The Map of My Life: The Story of a Japanese Mathematician is the autobiography of mathematician Goro Shimura, recounting his personal journey and contributions to number theory and arithmetic geometry.
E1281170 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: The Map of My Life: The Story of a Japanese Mathematician | Statement: [Goro Shimura, notableWork, The Map of My Life: The Story of a Japanese Mathematician]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Map of My Life: The Story of a Japanese Mathematician
Context triple: [Goro Shimura, notableWork, The Map of My Life: The Story of a Japanese Mathematician]
  • A. I Want to Be a Mathematician: An Automathography
    I Want to Be a Mathematician: An Automathography is Paul Halmos’s autobiographical memoir recounting his life, career, and experiences in 20th-century mathematics.
  • B. Letters to a Young Mathematician
    "Letters to a Young Mathematician" is a popular science book by Ian Stewart that offers personal, accessible guidance on the nature of mathematical thinking and the life of a mathematician.
  • C. Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture
    Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture is a novel that blends mathematical history and fiction to explore obsession, genius, and the pursuit of an unsolved problem in number theory.
  • D. The World of Mathematics
    The World of Mathematics is a comprehensive four-volume anthology edited by James R. Newman that presents the history, ideas, and cultural impact of mathematics through essays, biographies, and classic writings.
  • E. The Great Mathematical Problems
    The Great Mathematical Problems is a popular mathematics book by Ian Stewart that explores some of the most famous unsolved and historically significant problems in mathematics for a general audience.
  • 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: The Map of My Life: The Story of a Japanese Mathematician
Triple: [Goro Shimura, notableWork, The Map of My Life: The Story of a Japanese Mathematician]
Generated description
The Map of My Life: The Story of a Japanese Mathematician is the autobiography of mathematician Goro Shimura, recounting his personal journey and contributions to number theory and arithmetic geometry.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: The Map of My Life: The Story of a Japanese Mathematician
Target entity description: The Map of My Life: The Story of a Japanese Mathematician is the autobiography of mathematician Goro Shimura, recounting his personal journey and contributions to number theory and arithmetic geometry.
  • A. I Want to Be a Mathematician: An Automathography
    I Want to Be a Mathematician: An Automathography is Paul Halmos’s autobiographical memoir recounting his life, career, and experiences in 20th-century mathematics.
  • B. Letters to a Young Mathematician
    "Letters to a Young Mathematician" is a popular science book by Ian Stewart that offers personal, accessible guidance on the nature of mathematical thinking and the life of a mathematician.
  • C. Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture
    Uncle Petros and Goldbach’s Conjecture is a novel that blends mathematical history and fiction to explore obsession, genius, and the pursuit of an unsolved problem in number theory.
  • D. The World of Mathematics
    The World of Mathematics is a comprehensive four-volume anthology edited by James R. Newman that presents the history, ideas, and cultural impact of mathematics through essays, biographies, and classic writings.
  • E. The Great Mathematical Problems
    The Great Mathematical Problems is a popular mathematics book by Ian Stewart that explores some of the most famous unsolved and historically significant problems in mathematics for a general audience.
  • 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_69d8b9e87e18819087104a44dc4dc5b1 completed April 10, 2026, 8:50 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e46f69b11c8190b09add33f81776b3 completed April 19, 2026, 6 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a02166234f0819099c452808234e3e4 completed May 11, 2026, 5:48 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0217ca2ec881908573b0423c3610f7 completed May 11, 2026, 5:54 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0218636e048190a48bc7f066c7bee1 completed May 11, 2026, 5:56 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 9:59 a.m.