Triple

T22254350
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Helical microtubules of graphitic carbon E550059 entity
Predicate hasAuthor P4244 FINISHED
Object S. Iijima
S. Iijima is a Japanese physicist best known for discovering carbon nanotubes and pioneering research in nanomaterials.
E1532479 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: S. Iijima | Statement: [Helical microtubules of graphitic carbon, hasAuthor, S. Iijima]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: S. Iijima
Context triple: [Helical microtubules of graphitic carbon, hasAuthor, S. Iijima]
  • A. Shinpei Takagi
    Shinpei Takagi is a Japanese actor and former idol best known as one half of the twin entertainment duo with his brother Manpei Takagi, appearing in various television dramas, films, and stage productions.
  • B. Sanjo Ohashi
    Sanjo Ohashi is a historic bridge in Kyoto, Japan, long regarded as a key terminus of the Tōkaidō road and an important crossing point in the city.
  • C. Masatoshi Shima
    Masatoshi Shima is a Japanese engineer and microprocessor pioneer best known for co-designing the Intel 4004, the world's first commercial microprocessor.
  • D. Michitarō Komatsubara
    Michitarō Komatsubara was an Imperial Japanese Army general best known for leading Japanese forces in the 1939 border conflict with the Soviet Union at Nomonhan (Khalkhin Gol).
  • E. Masaru Yamamura
    Masaru Yamamura is a Japanese game designer at FromSoftware best known for his lead design work on the action-adventure game Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice.
  • 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: S. Iijima
Triple: [Helical microtubules of graphitic carbon, hasAuthor, S. Iijima]
Generated description
S. Iijima is a Japanese physicist best known for discovering carbon nanotubes and pioneering research in nanomaterials.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: S. Iijima
Target entity description: S. Iijima is a Japanese physicist best known for discovering carbon nanotubes and pioneering research in nanomaterials.
  • A. Shinpei Takagi
    Shinpei Takagi is a Japanese actor and former idol best known as one half of the twin entertainment duo with his brother Manpei Takagi, appearing in various television dramas, films, and stage productions.
  • B. Sanjo Ohashi
    Sanjo Ohashi is a historic bridge in Kyoto, Japan, long regarded as a key terminus of the Tōkaidō road and an important crossing point in the city.
  • C. Masatoshi Shima
    Masatoshi Shima is a Japanese engineer and microprocessor pioneer best known for co-designing the Intel 4004, the world's first commercial microprocessor.
  • D. Michitarō Komatsubara
    Michitarō Komatsubara was an Imperial Japanese Army general best known for leading Japanese forces in the 1939 border conflict with the Soviet Union at Nomonhan (Khalkhin Gol).
  • E. Masaru Yamamura
    Masaru Yamamura is a Japanese game designer at FromSoftware best known for his lead design work on the action-adventure game Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice.
  • 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_69e11e42adb8819087714772ea606709 completed April 16, 2026, 5:37 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69f138c0c4f48190a75473a7835014f1 completed April 28, 2026, 10:46 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a0ae04bbb38819086a34a78d363e0d8 completed May 18, 2026, 9:47 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0ae265b1208190bd34e76612097449 completed May 18, 2026, 9:56 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0ae310d6588190ab55793ba55ce7ec completed May 18, 2026, 9:59 a.m.
Created at: April 16, 2026, 8:39 p.m.