Triple
T18512283
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Paston Letters |
E452370
|
entity |
| Predicate | editor |
P1954
|
FINISHED |
| Object |
John Fenn
John Fenn was an 18th-century English antiquary best known for publishing and editing the medieval Paston Letters, an important collection of family correspondence from the Wars of the Roses period.
|
E1327195
|
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: John Fenn | Statement: [Paston Letters, editor, John Fenn]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Fenn Context triple: [Paston Letters, editor, John Fenn]
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A.
John B. Fenn
John B. Fenn was an American chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for developing electrospray ionization, a groundbreaking technique in mass spectrometry that revolutionized the analysis of large biomolecules.
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B.
R. B. Merrifield
R. B. Merrifield was an American biochemist best known for developing solid-phase peptide synthesis, a breakthrough method that revolutionized the field of peptide and protein chemistry.
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C.
Kurt Wüthrich
Kurt Wüthrich is a Swiss chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for pioneering the use of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to determine the three-dimensional structures of biological macromolecules.
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D.
Joachim Frank
Joachim Frank is a German-American biophysicist and Nobel laureate renowned for pioneering cryo-electron microscopy techniques that revolutionized the visualization of biomolecules.
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E.
Albert Eschenmoser
Albert Eschenmoser is a Swiss organic chemist renowned for his pioneering work on the structure and synthesis of vitamin B12 and for fundamental contributions to the understanding of organic reaction mechanisms and prebiotic chemistry.
- 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: John Fenn Triple: [Paston Letters, editor, John Fenn]
Generated description
John Fenn was an 18th-century English antiquary best known for publishing and editing the medieval Paston Letters, an important collection of family correspondence from the Wars of the Roses period.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John Fenn Target entity description: John Fenn was an 18th-century English antiquary best known for publishing and editing the medieval Paston Letters, an important collection of family correspondence from the Wars of the Roses period.
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A.
John B. Fenn
John B. Fenn was an American chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for developing electrospray ionization, a groundbreaking technique in mass spectrometry that revolutionized the analysis of large biomolecules.
-
B.
R. B. Merrifield
R. B. Merrifield was an American biochemist best known for developing solid-phase peptide synthesis, a breakthrough method that revolutionized the field of peptide and protein chemistry.
-
C.
Kurt Wüthrich
Kurt Wüthrich is a Swiss chemist and Nobel laureate renowned for pioneering the use of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy to determine the three-dimensional structures of biological macromolecules.
-
D.
Joachim Frank
Joachim Frank is a German-American biophysicist and Nobel laureate renowned for pioneering cryo-electron microscopy techniques that revolutionized the visualization of biomolecules.
-
E.
Albert Eschenmoser
Albert Eschenmoser is a Swiss organic chemist renowned for his pioneering work on the structure and synthesis of vitamin B12 and for fundamental contributions to the understanding of organic reaction mechanisms and prebiotic chemistry.
- 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_69d8d386df84819092355ebb260d848e |
completed | April 10, 2026, 10:40 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69e53346f9488190bc2e4570564bede0 |
completed | April 19, 2026, 7:55 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_6a04714b31c481909e9aeb26568f23ec |
completed | May 13, 2026, 12:40 p.m. |
| NEDg | Description generation | batch_6a047224bc048190ad4b61a91097c96f |
completed | May 13, 2026, 12:44 p.m. |
| NED2 | Entity disambiguation (via description) | batch_6a0472d592d081908239820ec4af2335 |
completed | May 13, 2026, 12:47 p.m. |
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:36 a.m.