Triple

T11213463
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject James Somerville E265367 entity
Predicate birthName P65 FINISHED
Object James Fownes Somerville
James Fownes Somerville was a British Royal Navy admiral best known for commanding the Mediterranean Fleet during the early years of the Second World War.
E912446 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: James Fownes Somerville | Statement: [James Somerville, birthName, James Fownes Somerville]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Fownes Somerville
Context triple: [James Somerville, birthName, James Fownes Somerville]
  • A. Henry Nettleship
    Henry Nettleship was a 19th-century English classical scholar best known for his work on Latin literature and his contributions to the study of Roman poetry.
  • B. Rutherford Alcock
    Rutherford Alcock was a 19th-century British diplomat best known as the first British consul in Japan and for helping open the country to Western influence.
  • C. George Cornewall Lewis
    George Cornewall Lewis was a 19th-century British statesman and political thinker known for his influential writings on constitutional government and public administration.
  • D. A. E. W. Mason
    A. E. W. Mason was a British novelist and politician best known for his adventure novel "The Four Feathers."
  • E. Edward Routh
    Edward Routh was a 19th-century British mathematician and educator renowned for his work in stability theory and for mentoring many top Cambridge mathematicians.
  • 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: James Fownes Somerville
Triple: [James Somerville, birthName, James Fownes Somerville]
Generated description
James Fownes Somerville was a British Royal Navy admiral best known for commanding the Mediterranean Fleet during the early years of the Second World War.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Fownes Somerville
Target entity description: James Fownes Somerville was a British Royal Navy admiral best known for commanding the Mediterranean Fleet during the early years of the Second World War.
  • A. Henry Nettleship
    Henry Nettleship was a 19th-century English classical scholar best known for his work on Latin literature and his contributions to the study of Roman poetry.
  • B. Rutherford Alcock
    Rutherford Alcock was a 19th-century British diplomat best known as the first British consul in Japan and for helping open the country to Western influence.
  • C. George Cornewall Lewis
    George Cornewall Lewis was a 19th-century British statesman and political thinker known for his influential writings on constitutional government and public administration.
  • D. A. E. W. Mason
    A. E. W. Mason was a British novelist and politician best known for his adventure novel "The Four Feathers."
  • E. Edward Routh
    Edward Routh was a 19th-century British mathematician and educator renowned for his work in stability theory and for mentoring many top Cambridge mathematicians.
  • 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_69d6aac59460819089b9848b27f57848 completed April 8, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d7e8d7f47c8190b78c640ff1a01943 completed April 9, 2026, 5:58 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69e4ad135154819091026334d25cd287 completed April 19, 2026, 10:23 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69e4b12c04e48190ad7546d556a5109f completed April 19, 2026, 10:40 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69e4b2949c7c8190820b7f1f87e00602 completed April 19, 2026, 10:46 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:30 p.m.