Triple

T20200866
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Acta Materialia Gold Medal E493212 entity
Predicate hasAwarded P2391 FINISHED
Object Merton C. Flemings
Merton C. Flemings was a prominent American materials scientist and MIT professor renowned for his pioneering work in solidification processing and metal casting.
E1417614 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: Merton C. Flemings | Statement: [Acta Materialia Gold Medal, hasAwarded, Merton C. Flemings]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Merton C. Flemings
Context triple: [Acta Materialia Gold Medal, hasAwarded, Merton C. Flemings]
  • A. William Peyton Hubbard
    William Peyton Hubbard was a pioneering Black Canadian politician and civic leader in early 20th-century Toronto, known for breaking racial barriers in municipal government.
  • B. William H. Nobles
    William H. Nobles was a 19th-century American pioneer and trailblazer known for establishing overland routes in the western United States.
  • C. Harold A. Wheeler
    Harold A. Wheeler was an influential American electrical engineer and inventor known for his pioneering contributions to radio and radar technology.
  • D. David E. Lilienthal
    David E. Lilienthal was an American public administrator and lawyer best known for leading major New Deal and postwar agencies, including the Tennessee Valley Authority and the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
  • E. Winton C. Hoch
    Winton C. Hoch was an American cinematographer renowned for his richly colored Technicolor work, including multiple collaborations with director John Ford and several Academy Award-winning films.
  • 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: Merton C. Flemings
Triple: [Acta Materialia Gold Medal, hasAwarded, Merton C. Flemings]
Generated description
Merton C. Flemings was a prominent American materials scientist and MIT professor renowned for his pioneering work in solidification processing and metal casting.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Merton C. Flemings
Target entity description: Merton C. Flemings was a prominent American materials scientist and MIT professor renowned for his pioneering work in solidification processing and metal casting.
  • A. William Peyton Hubbard
    William Peyton Hubbard was a pioneering Black Canadian politician and civic leader in early 20th-century Toronto, known for breaking racial barriers in municipal government.
  • B. William H. Nobles
    William H. Nobles was a 19th-century American pioneer and trailblazer known for establishing overland routes in the western United States.
  • C. Harold A. Wheeler
    Harold A. Wheeler was an influential American electrical engineer and inventor known for his pioneering contributions to radio and radar technology.
  • D. David E. Lilienthal
    David E. Lilienthal was an American public administrator and lawyer best known for leading major New Deal and postwar agencies, including the Tennessee Valley Authority and the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission.
  • E. Winton C. Hoch
    Winton C. Hoch was an American cinematographer renowned for his richly colored Technicolor work, including multiple collaborations with director John Ford and several Academy Award-winning films.
  • 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_69da6269614c8190bb40475d9d477358 completed April 11, 2026, 3:02 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e66d8d01648190b1b3a6e03f0258d8 completed April 20, 2026, 6:16 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0843e8cd9c8190853f116ed0e4662b completed May 16, 2026, 10:16 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0844d37fc48190a73ab9d45227e7eb completed May 16, 2026, 10:20 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a084554462081908a1b801fe1528fa0 completed May 16, 2026, 10:22 a.m.
Created at: April 11, 2026, 11:37 p.m.