Triple

T10411279
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Railway Series E245395 entity
Predicate hasIllustrator P2761 FINISHED
Object William Middleton
William Middleton is an illustrator known for his artwork in the classic British children's book collection "The Railway Series."
E862033 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 Middleton | Statement: [The Railway Series, hasIllustrator, William Middleton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Middleton
Context triple: [The Railway Series, hasIllustrator, William Middleton]
  • A. Robert Middleton
    Robert Middleton was an American character actor known for his imposing presence and frequent roles as villains or authority figures in mid-20th-century film and television.
  • B. Robert Middleton
    Robert Middleton is an architect best known as one of the founders of the influential design and planning firm Cambridge Seven Associates.
  • C. Cyril Emmanuel King
    Cyril Emmanuel King was a prominent U.S. Virgin Islands politician who served as the territory’s second elected governor in the 1970s.
  • D. Edward Rose
    Edward Rose was a benefactor whose contributions and legacy led to the naming of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in his honor.
  • E. Charles Robert Knox
    Charles Robert Knox was a prominent American football coach best known for his successful head coaching tenures in the NFL during the 1970s and 1980s.
  • 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 Middleton
Triple: [The Railway Series, hasIllustrator, William Middleton]
Generated description
William Middleton is an illustrator known for his artwork in the classic British children's book collection "The Railway Series."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Middleton
Target entity description: William Middleton is an illustrator known for his artwork in the classic British children's book collection "The Railway Series."
  • A. Robert Middleton
    Robert Middleton was an American character actor known for his imposing presence and frequent roles as villains or authority figures in mid-20th-century film and television.
  • B. Robert Middleton
    Robert Middleton is an architect best known as one of the founders of the influential design and planning firm Cambridge Seven Associates.
  • C. Cyril Emmanuel King
    Cyril Emmanuel King was a prominent U.S. Virgin Islands politician who served as the territory’s second elected governor in the 1970s.
  • D. Edward Rose
    Edward Rose was a benefactor whose contributions and legacy led to the naming of the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University in his honor.
  • E. Charles Robert Knox
    Charles Robert Knox was a prominent American football coach best known for his successful head coaching tenures in the NFL during the 1970s and 1980s.
  • 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_69d381be340c8190b05998703d42d224 completed April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d4e9fc72d081908d81c71133973daf completed April 7, 2026, 11:26 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69d7fbfae96c8190ac496e9a1158afe4 completed April 9, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d822d6a0188190a7ee6de5aab50486 completed April 9, 2026, 10:06 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d859e40bf88190a6dc8deed3049d31 completed April 10, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:09 p.m.