Triple

T926637
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject ASME Medal E19997 entity
Predicate notableRecipient P108 FINISHED
Object Stephen H. Crandall
Stephen H. Crandall was a prominent American mechanical engineer and MIT professor renowned for his foundational contributions to the fields of dynamics, vibrations, and random processes in engineering.
E122718 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: Stephen H. Crandall | Statement: [ASME Medal, notableRecipient, Stephen H. Crandall]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Stephen H. Crandall
Context triple: [ASME Medal, notableRecipient, Stephen H. Crandall]
  • A. David M. Satterfield
    David M. Satterfield is an American diplomat and former U.S. ambassador who has held several senior foreign policy roles, including directing Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.
  • B. Alan S. Boyd
    Alan S. Boyd was an American lawyer and public official who became the first U.S. Secretary of Transportation, helping to shape national transportation policy in the late 1960s.
  • C. Dale Harbison Carnagey
    Dale Harbison Carnagey, better known as Dale Carnegie, was an influential American writer and lecturer whose self-improvement and interpersonal skills courses and books, such as "How to Win Friends and Influence People," shaped modern personal development and business communication.
  • D. Stephen T. Early
    Stephen T. Early was a prominent American government official and longtime press secretary to President Franklin D. Roosevelt who later became the first U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense.
  • E. Harold F. Gosnell
    Harold F. Gosnell was an influential American political scientist known for pioneering empirical and methodological approaches to the study of elections and political behavior.
  • 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: Stephen H. Crandall
Triple: [ASME Medal, notableRecipient, Stephen H. Crandall]
Generated description
Stephen H. Crandall was a prominent American mechanical engineer and MIT professor renowned for his foundational contributions to the fields of dynamics, vibrations, and random processes in engineering.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Stephen H. Crandall
Target entity description: Stephen H. Crandall was a prominent American mechanical engineer and MIT professor renowned for his foundational contributions to the fields of dynamics, vibrations, and random processes in engineering.
  • A. David M. Satterfield
    David M. Satterfield is an American diplomat and former U.S. ambassador who has held several senior foreign policy roles, including directing Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.
  • B. Alan S. Boyd
    Alan S. Boyd was an American lawyer and public official who became the first U.S. Secretary of Transportation, helping to shape national transportation policy in the late 1960s.
  • C. Dale Harbison Carnagey
    Dale Harbison Carnagey, better known as Dale Carnegie, was an influential American writer and lecturer whose self-improvement and interpersonal skills courses and books, such as "How to Win Friends and Influence People," shaped modern personal development and business communication.
  • D. Stephen T. Early
    Stephen T. Early was a prominent American government official and longtime press secretary to President Franklin D. Roosevelt who later became the first U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense.
  • E. Harold F. Gosnell
    Harold F. Gosnell was an influential American political scientist known for pioneering empirical and methodological approaches to the study of elections and political behavior.
  • 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_69a493a099788190a696d9d8408cbaf4 completed March 1, 2026, 7:29 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b32c5b508190a570c94a6647ba70 completed March 1, 2026, 9:44 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac3b9d72c8819099082daaf7d0ca3f completed March 7, 2026, 2:52 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac3ec0663c819083680291ea27f869 completed March 7, 2026, 3:05 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac3f0a7a188190b4cb253a1e7a4009 completed March 7, 2026, 3:06 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:40 p.m.