Triple

T18347848
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jerome Y. Lettvin E439588 entity
Predicate notableWork P4 FINISHED
Object What the frog’s eye tells the frog’s brain
"What the frog’s eye tells the frog’s brain" is a landmark 1959 neuroscience paper that revealed how the frog’s visual system extracts specific features from the environment, helping to found the field of sensory information processing.
E1319448 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: What the frog’s eye tells the frog’s brain | Statement: [Jerome Y. Lettvin, notableWork, What the frog’s eye tells the frog’s brain]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: What the frog’s eye tells the frog’s brain
Context triple: [Jerome Y. Lettvin, notableWork, What the frog’s eye tells the frog’s brain]
  • A. “Eye, Brain, and Vision”
    “Eye, Brain, and Vision” is a popular science book by neurophysiologist David H. Hubel that explains how the visual system works, from the eye’s structure to the brain’s processing of visual information.
  • B. Vision: A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information
    Vision: A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information is a seminal 1982 book by David Marr that laid the foundations of computational neuroscience and modern theories of visual perception.
  • C. Biophysics of Computation: Information Processing in Single Neurons
    Biophysics of Computation: Information Processing in Single Neurons is a seminal book that rigorously explains how individual neurons perform complex information processing using biophysical and computational principles.
  • D. The Computational Brain
    The Computational Brain is an influential book that explores how principles of computation and neural networks can explain brain function and cognition.
  • E. The Physiology of Synapses
    The Physiology of Synapses is a seminal scientific monograph by neurophysiologist John Eccles that systematically explores the mechanisms of synaptic transmission in the nervous system.
  • 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: What the frog’s eye tells the frog’s brain
Triple: [Jerome Y. Lettvin, notableWork, What the frog’s eye tells the frog’s brain]
Generated description
"What the frog’s eye tells the frog’s brain" is a landmark 1959 neuroscience paper that revealed how the frog’s visual system extracts specific features from the environment, helping to found the field of sensory information processing.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: What the frog’s eye tells the frog’s brain
Target entity description: "What the frog’s eye tells the frog’s brain" is a landmark 1959 neuroscience paper that revealed how the frog’s visual system extracts specific features from the environment, helping to found the field of sensory information processing.
  • A. “Eye, Brain, and Vision”
    “Eye, Brain, and Vision” is a popular science book by neurophysiologist David H. Hubel that explains how the visual system works, from the eye’s structure to the brain’s processing of visual information.
  • B. Vision: A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information
    Vision: A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information is a seminal 1982 book by David Marr that laid the foundations of computational neuroscience and modern theories of visual perception.
  • C. Biophysics of Computation: Information Processing in Single Neurons
    Biophysics of Computation: Information Processing in Single Neurons is a seminal book that rigorously explains how individual neurons perform complex information processing using biophysical and computational principles.
  • D. The Computational Brain
    The Computational Brain is an influential book that explores how principles of computation and neural networks can explain brain function and cognition.
  • E. The Physiology of Synapses
    The Physiology of Synapses is a seminal scientific monograph by neurophysiologist John Eccles that systematically explores the mechanisms of synaptic transmission in the nervous system.
  • 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_69d8b9175fec8190af865699b4e64d8c completed April 10, 2026, 8:47 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e514f594f88190a683e6224e091593 completed April 19, 2026, 5:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a03cc266d608190988a7250a2626575 completed May 13, 2026, 12:56 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a03cd30105c8190925ebd435d7b2925 completed May 13, 2026, 1 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03cdac1cc48190a1056371bed04c90 completed May 13, 2026, 1:02 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:37 a.m.