Triple

T10411285
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject The Railway Series E245395 entity
Predicate hasIllustrator P2761 FINISHED
Object Clive Spong
Clive Spong is a British illustrator best known for his work on later volumes of The Railway Series of children's books featuring Thomas the Tank Engine.
E866560 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: Clive Spong | Statement: [The Railway Series, hasIllustrator, Clive Spong]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Clive Spong
Context triple: [The Railway Series, hasIllustrator, Clive Spong]
  • A. Clive Beddoe
    Clive Beddoe is a Canadian entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and longtime leader of the low-cost airline WestJet.
  • B. Clive Franks
    Clive Franks is a British record producer and audio engineer best known for his long-term collaboration with Elton John on numerous classic albums and hit singles.
  • C. Clive Griffin
    Clive Griffin is a British pop and soul singer best known for his 1993 duet "When I Fall in Love" with Celine Dion from the film Sleepless in Seattle.
  • D. Clive Egleton
    Clive Egleton was a British author best known for his espionage and military thrillers, several of which were adapted for film and television.
  • E. Clive Revill
    Clive Revill is a New Zealand-born actor and voice actor known for his extensive work in film, television, and theatre, including providing the original voice of Emperor Palpatine in the 1980 release of "The Empire Strikes Back."
  • 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: Clive Spong
Triple: [The Railway Series, hasIllustrator, Clive Spong]
Generated description
Clive Spong is a British illustrator best known for his work on later volumes of The Railway Series of children's books featuring Thomas the Tank Engine.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Clive Spong
Target entity description: Clive Spong is a British illustrator best known for his work on later volumes of The Railway Series of children's books featuring Thomas the Tank Engine.
  • A. Clive Beddoe
    Clive Beddoe is a Canadian entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and longtime leader of the low-cost airline WestJet.
  • B. Clive Franks
    Clive Franks is a British record producer and audio engineer best known for his long-term collaboration with Elton John on numerous classic albums and hit singles.
  • C. Clive Griffin
    Clive Griffin is a British pop and soul singer best known for his 1993 duet "When I Fall in Love" with Celine Dion from the film Sleepless in Seattle.
  • D. Clive Egleton
    Clive Egleton was a British author best known for his espionage and military thrillers, several of which were adapted for film and television.
  • E. Clive Revill
    Clive Revill is a New Zealand-born actor and voice actor known for his extensive work in film, television, and theatre, including providing the original voice of Emperor Palpatine in the 1980 release of "The Empire Strikes Back."
  • 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_69d8dc2b06188190ad399e1b5a545aec completed April 10, 2026, 11:16 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69d8e8c683608190aa4333ed38e79f53 completed April 10, 2026, 12:10 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69d901c7684c8190837ed9ef0c2428af completed April 10, 2026, 1:57 p.m.
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:09 p.m.