Triple

T11921392
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject John Hanning Speke E283664 entity
Predicate givenName P17 FINISHED
Object John
John is the given name of the British explorer John Hanning Speke, known for his expeditions in Africa and the discovery of Lake Victoria as a source of the Nile.
E954630 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: John | Statement: [John Hanning Speke, givenName, John]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John
Context triple: [John Hanning Speke, givenName, John]
  • A. John
    John is the given name of John J. Pershing, the famed American general who led the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I.
  • B. John
    John is the given name of John W. Mauchly, the American physicist and co-inventor of the ENIAC computer.
  • C. John
    John is the given first name of Johnny Kilbane, an American featherweight boxing champion from the early 20th century.
  • D. John
    John is the given first name of the 19th-century English theologian and social reformer Frederick Denison Maurice.
  • E. John
    John is the given name of John Eales, the renowned former Australian rugby union captain and World Cup winner.
  • 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: John
Triple: [John Hanning Speke, givenName, John]
Generated description
John is the given name of the British explorer John Hanning Speke, known for his expeditions in Africa and the discovery of Lake Victoria as a source of the Nile.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: John
Target entity description: John is the given name of the British explorer John Hanning Speke, known for his expeditions in Africa and the discovery of Lake Victoria as a source of the Nile.
  • A. John
    John is the given name of Edward John Eyre, a 19th-century British explorer and colonial administrator known for his expeditions in Australia and controversial governorship in Jamaica.
  • B. John
    John is the given name of John Gardner Wilkinson, a pioneering 19th-century English Egyptologist known for his extensive studies of ancient Egypt.
  • C. John
    John is the given name of John Lloyd Stephens, the 19th-century American explorer, writer, and diplomat renowned for his pioneering documentation of Maya civilization.
  • D. John
    John is the given name of the British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin, known for his ill-fated 1845 expedition to find the Northwest Passage.
  • E. John
    John is the given name of John Muir, the influential Scottish-American naturalist and conservationist known as the "Father of the National Parks."
  • 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_69d6ab2ce9c48190b5d39511b524f666 completed April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69d8e8e1b08481909ed291667035f330 completed April 10, 2026, 12:11 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f44033c288819099587af3f895eac5 completed May 1, 2026, 5:54 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f448fa8eec81909fe6ac0902f46998 completed May 1, 2026, 6:32 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f44aef15148190ba8090681b921ffa completed May 1, 2026, 6:40 a.m.
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:45 p.m.