Triple

T910944
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Rufus Oldenburger Medal E19655 entity
Predicate hasNotableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Roger W. Brockett
Roger W. Brockett is an American control theorist and applied mathematician known for foundational contributions to nonlinear control, differential geometry in control, and the theory of systems and robotics.
E153749 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: Roger W. Brockett | Statement: [Rufus Oldenburger Medal, hasNotableRecipient, Roger W. Brockett]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Roger W. Brockett
Context triple: [Rufus Oldenburger Medal, hasNotableRecipient, Roger W. Brockett]
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Edward M. Purcell
    Edward M. Purcell was an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance, which laid the foundation for technologies such as MRI.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Stanley Corrsin
    Stanley Corrsin was a prominent American fluid dynamicist renowned for his pioneering contributions to the study of turbulence and mixing in fluid flows.
  • 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: Roger W. Brockett
Triple: [Rufus Oldenburger Medal, hasNotableRecipient, Roger W. Brockett]
Generated description
Roger W. Brockett is an American control theorist and applied mathematician known for foundational contributions to nonlinear control, differential geometry in control, and the theory of systems and robotics.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Roger W. Brockett
Target entity description: Roger W. Brockett is an American control theorist and applied mathematician known for foundational contributions to nonlinear control, differential geometry in control, and the theory of systems and robotics.
  • A. 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.
  • B. 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.
  • C. Edward M. Purcell
    Edward M. Purcell was an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance, which laid the foundation for technologies such as MRI.
  • D. 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.
  • E. Stanley Corrsin
    Stanley Corrsin was a prominent American fluid dynamicist renowned for his pioneering contributions to the study of turbulence and mixing in fluid flows.
  • 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_69acc5ff51c48190ab9b096d9d885d8f completed March 8, 2026, 12:42 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69acc6ae66408190bf48fe3150a08116 completed March 8, 2026, 12:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69acc73b92248190b723cb64046799e3 completed March 8, 2026, 12:47 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:39 p.m.