Triple

T1006443
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject William Collins, Sons E21723 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object William Collins
William Collins was a Scottish publisher and founder of the notable publishing house William Collins, Sons, which later became part of HarperCollins.
E118095 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: William Collins | Statement: [William Collins, Sons, foundedBy, William Collins]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Collins
Context triple: [William Collins, Sons, foundedBy, William Collins]
  • A. Robert Southey
    Robert Southey was an English Romantic poet, biographer, and historian who served as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1813 to 1843.
  • B. Robert Fergusson
    Robert Fergusson was an 18th-century Scottish poet whose vivid vernacular verse and depictions of Edinburgh life strongly influenced later writers, including Robert Burns.
  • C. Thomas Gray
    Thomas Gray was an 18th-century English poet and scholar best known for his meditative poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard."
  • D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English Romantic poet, critic, and philosopher best known for works such as "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan."
  • E. Edward Bishop
    Edward Bishop was a 17th-century New England resident known primarily as the husband of Bridget Bishop, the first person executed during the Salem witch trials.
  • 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: William Collins
Triple: [William Collins, Sons, foundedBy, William Collins]
Generated description
William Collins was a Scottish publisher and founder of the notable publishing house William Collins, Sons, which later became part of HarperCollins.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Collins
Target entity description: William Collins was a Scottish publisher and founder of the notable publishing house William Collins, Sons, which later became part of HarperCollins.
  • A. Robert Southey
    Robert Southey was an English Romantic poet, biographer, and historian who served as Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1813 to 1843.
  • B. Robert Fergusson
    Robert Fergusson was an 18th-century Scottish poet whose vivid vernacular verse and depictions of Edinburgh life strongly influenced later writers, including Robert Burns.
  • C. Thomas Gray
    Thomas Gray was an 18th-century English poet and scholar best known for his meditative poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard."
  • D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English Romantic poet, critic, and philosopher best known for works such as "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and "Kubla Khan."
  • E. Edward Bishop
    Edward Bishop was a 17th-century New England resident known primarily as the husband of Bridget Bishop, the first person executed during the Salem witch trials.
  • 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_69a493c53e648190ae8cb76c433fd9a7 completed March 1, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4b51434f081909b301ad1c151af03 completed March 1, 2026, 9:52 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac2a21034081908ce6eb7d9827aba2 completed March 7, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac2a6dedb88190b2943c056d99e02f completed March 7, 2026, 1:38 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac2ae2a5748190ba518f29d7564822 completed March 7, 2026, 1:40 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:41 p.m.