Triple

T20593316
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Younger Dryas impact hypothesis E505986 entity
Predicate proposedBy P32 FINISHED
Object Richard B. Firestone
Richard B. Firestone is an American nuclear physicist and researcher known for co-developing the controversial Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, which proposes a cosmic impact event as a trigger for abrupt climate change and megafaunal extinctions.
E1439419 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: Richard B. Firestone | Statement: [Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, proposedBy, Richard B. Firestone]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard B. Firestone
Context triple: [Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, proposedBy, Richard B. Firestone]
  • A. Garth H. Drabinsky
    Garth H. Drabinsky is a Canadian theatrical producer and former film executive known for his high-profile stage productions and controversial legal troubles.
  • B. Richard Brumberg
    Richard Brumberg was an economist best known for co-developing the Modigliani–Brumberg life-cycle hypothesis of consumption and saving.
  • C. Bruce C. Murray
    Bruce C. Murray was an American planetary scientist and former director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, known for his leadership in Mars and planetary exploration.
  • D. Richard P. Turco
    Richard P. Turco is an atmospheric scientist known for his pioneering research on nuclear winter and the climatic effects of large-scale environmental disturbances.
  • E. Harold F. Levison
    Harold F. Levison is a planetary scientist known for his work on the dynamics of small bodies in the Solar System and for leading NASA’s Lucy mission to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids.
  • 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: Richard B. Firestone
Triple: [Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, proposedBy, Richard B. Firestone]
Generated description
Richard B. Firestone is an American nuclear physicist and researcher known for co-developing the controversial Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, which proposes a cosmic impact event as a trigger for abrupt climate change and megafaunal extinctions.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Richard B. Firestone
Target entity description: Richard B. Firestone is an American nuclear physicist and researcher known for co-developing the controversial Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, which proposes a cosmic impact event as a trigger for abrupt climate change and megafaunal extinctions.
  • A. Garth H. Drabinsky
    Garth H. Drabinsky is a Canadian theatrical producer and former film executive known for his high-profile stage productions and controversial legal troubles.
  • B. Richard Brumberg
    Richard Brumberg was an economist best known for co-developing the Modigliani–Brumberg life-cycle hypothesis of consumption and saving.
  • C. Bruce C. Murray
    Bruce C. Murray was an American planetary scientist and former director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, known for his leadership in Mars and planetary exploration.
  • D. Richard P. Turco
    Richard P. Turco is an atmospheric scientist known for his pioneering research on nuclear winter and the climatic effects of large-scale environmental disturbances.
  • E. Harold F. Levison
    Harold F. Levison is a planetary scientist known for his work on the dynamics of small bodies in the Solar System and for leading NASA’s Lucy mission to study Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids.
  • 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_69e0b4ba6ae88190af871e1f9522c704 completed April 16, 2026, 10:06 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e6a97d63cc8190853e052d5930470d completed April 20, 2026, 10:32 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a08b3eadb248190a86149d3ca375963 completed May 16, 2026, 6:14 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a08b49702108190810c8e4f5a89ec36 completed May 16, 2026, 6:16 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a08b524b95c8190909c93d471e9397f completed May 16, 2026, 6:19 p.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 11:40 a.m.