Triple
T18347870
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Jerome Y. Lettvin |
E439588
|
entity |
| Predicate | influencedBy |
P9
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Warren S. McCulloch |
E764503
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Warren S. McCulloch | Statement: [Jerome Y. Lettvin, influencedBy, Warren S. McCulloch]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Warren S. McCulloch Context triple: [Jerome Y. Lettvin, influencedBy, Warren S. McCulloch]
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A.
Warren S. McCulloch
chosen
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.
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B.
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.
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C.
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.
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D.
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.”
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E.
Karl Lashley
Karl Lashley was an influential American psychologist and neuroscientist known for his pioneering research on brain function, learning, and memory, particularly through lesion studies in animals.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_6a03e234ba348190be798b49ab8ce827 |
completed | May 13, 2026, 2:30 a.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 10:37 a.m.