Triple

T910933
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Rufus Oldenburger Medal E19655 entity
Predicate hasNotableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Gene F. Franklin
Gene F. Franklin was an influential American control systems engineer and educator known for his foundational contributions to control theory and engineering education.
E151397 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: Gene F. Franklin | Statement: [Rufus Oldenburger Medal, hasNotableRecipient, Gene F. Franklin]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gene F. Franklin
Context triple: [Rufus Oldenburger Medal, hasNotableRecipient, Gene F. Franklin]
  • A. Thomas Kailath
    Thomas Kailath is an Indian-American electrical engineer and Stanford professor renowned for his influential contributions to information theory, control, and signal processing.
  • B. Donald B. Parkinson
    Donald B. Parkinson was an American architect known for designing prominent early 20th-century landmarks in Los Angeles, often in collaboration with his father John Parkinson.
  • C. Robert B. Leighton
    Robert B. Leighton was an American experimental physicist and educator known for his contributions to cosmic-ray and infrared astronomy and for coauthoring the influential Feynman Lectures on Physics.
  • D. John H. Lienhard
    John H. Lienhard is an American mechanical engineer and educator renowned for his contributions to heat transfer and thermodynamics, as well as for creating the public radio program "The Engines of Our Ingenuity."
  • E. John R. Pierce
    John R. Pierce was an American engineer and scientist best known for his pioneering work in communications technology, including satellite and microwave systems, and for coining the term "transistor."
  • 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: Gene F. Franklin
Triple: [Rufus Oldenburger Medal, hasNotableRecipient, Gene F. Franklin]
Generated description
Gene F. Franklin was an influential American control systems engineer and educator known for his foundational contributions to control theory and engineering education.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Gene F. Franklin
Target entity description: Gene F. Franklin was an influential American control systems engineer and educator known for his foundational contributions to control theory and engineering education.
  • A. Thomas Kailath
    Thomas Kailath is an Indian-American electrical engineer and Stanford professor renowned for his influential contributions to information theory, control, and signal processing.
  • B. Donald B. Parkinson
    Donald B. Parkinson was an American architect known for designing prominent early 20th-century landmarks in Los Angeles, often in collaboration with his father John Parkinson.
  • C. Robert B. Leighton
    Robert B. Leighton was an American experimental physicist and educator known for his contributions to cosmic-ray and infrared astronomy and for coauthoring the influential Feynman Lectures on Physics.
  • D. John H. Lienhard
    John H. Lienhard is an American mechanical engineer and educator renowned for his contributions to heat transfer and thermodynamics, as well as for creating the public radio program "The Engines of Our Ingenuity."
  • E. John R. Pierce
    John R. Pierce was an American engineer and scientist best known for his pioneering work in communications technology, including satellite and microwave systems, and for coining the term "transistor."
  • 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_69a4939f91a08190ba68c2c81eab90fe completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b2de5b008190851852331db41324 completed March 1, 2026, 9:42 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69acbf0949c481908868bd27eeb964b4 completed March 8, 2026, 12:12 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acbfdaaa548190a9b8d74bf1651df1 completed March 8, 2026, 12:16 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69acc04ff3bc819083df91a13ea63679 completed March 8, 2026, 12:18 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:39 p.m.