Triple

T18347852
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Jerome Y. Lettvin E439588 entity
Predicate coAuthor P398 FINISHED
Object Walter H. Pitts
Walter H. Pitts was a pioneering logician and cognitive scientist best known for co-developing the first mathematical model of artificial neural networks with Warren McCulloch, laying foundational work for computational neuroscience and AI.
E1321686 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: Walter H. Pitts | Statement: [Jerome Y. Lettvin, coAuthor, Walter H. Pitts]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter H. Pitts
Context triple: [Jerome Y. Lettvin, coAuthor, Walter H. Pitts]
  • A. Warren S. McCulloch
    Warren S. McCulloch was an American neurophysiologist and cybernetician best known as a founder of computational neuroscience and for co-authoring the seminal 1943 paper that introduced the first mathematical model of artificial neural networks.
  • B. Walter Rosenblith
    Walter Rosenblith was a prominent biophysicist and neuroscientist who became a key figure at MIT, notably serving as provost and helping shape the institute’s postwar research and academic directions.
  • C. Jerome Y. Lettvin
    Jerome Y. Lettvin was an influential American neuroscientist and MIT professor best known for his pioneering work on how the nervous system processes visual information, including the landmark paper “What the frog’s eye tells the frog’s brain.”
  • D. William M. McCulloch
    William M. McCulloch was an American Republican congressman from Ohio known for his key legislative role in advancing major civil rights laws in the 1960s.
  • E. Marvin Minsky
    Marvin Minsky was an American cognitive scientist and pioneering artificial intelligence researcher who co-founded MIT's AI Laboratory and made foundational contributions to the theory and philosophy of AI.
  • 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: Walter H. Pitts
Triple: [Jerome Y. Lettvin, coAuthor, Walter H. Pitts]
Generated description
Walter H. Pitts was a pioneering logician and cognitive scientist best known for co-developing the first mathematical model of artificial neural networks with Warren McCulloch, laying foundational work for computational neuroscience and AI.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter H. Pitts
Target entity description: Walter H. Pitts was a pioneering logician and cognitive scientist best known for co-developing the first mathematical model of artificial neural networks with Warren McCulloch, laying foundational work for computational neuroscience and AI.
  • A. Warren S. McCulloch
    Warren S. McCulloch was an American neurophysiologist and cybernetician best known as a founder of computational neuroscience and for co-authoring the seminal 1943 paper that introduced the first mathematical model of artificial neural networks.
  • B. Walter Rosenblith
    Walter Rosenblith was a prominent biophysicist and neuroscientist who became a key figure at MIT, notably serving as provost and helping shape the institute’s postwar research and academic directions.
  • C. Jerome Y. Lettvin
    Jerome Y. Lettvin was an influential American neuroscientist and MIT professor best known for his pioneering work on how the nervous system processes visual information, including the landmark paper “What the frog’s eye tells the frog’s brain.”
  • D. William M. McCulloch
    William M. McCulloch was an American Republican congressman from Ohio known for his key legislative role in advancing major civil rights laws in the 1960s.
  • E. Marvin Minsky
    Marvin Minsky was an American cognitive scientist and pioneering artificial intelligence researcher who co-founded MIT's AI Laboratory and made foundational contributions to the theory and philosophy of AI.
  • 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_6a03d77030188190ab2cdc913418a22b completed May 13, 2026, 1:44 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a03da9119008190ad17b6d1710aefdb completed May 13, 2026, 1:57 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a03db690a3c8190a7cf459a16e3ed75 completed May 13, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:37 a.m.