Triple
T11993151
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Newcomen atmospheric engine |
E285462
|
entity |
| Predicate | inventor |
P632
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Thomas Newcomen |
E958611
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 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: Thomas Newcomen | Statement: [Newcomen atmospheric engine, inventor, Thomas Newcomen]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Thomas Newcomen Context triple: [Newcomen atmospheric engine, inventor, Thomas Newcomen]
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A.
Thomas Newcomen
chosen
Thomas Newcomen was an early 18th-century English inventor and engineer best known for developing the first practical steam engine used to pump water from mines.
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B.
Anne Newcomen
Anne Newcomen was an English gentlewoman of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, best known as the wife of Edward Montagu and mother of the writer and traveller Edward Wortley Montagu.
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C.
James Watt
James Watt was an 18th-century Scottish engineer and inventor whose improvements to the steam engine were crucial in driving the Industrial Revolution.
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D.
William Symington
William Symington was a Scottish engineer and inventor best known for pioneering practical steamboat technology in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
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E.
Boulton and Watt
Boulton and Watt was a pioneering 18th-century British engineering and manufacturing firm best known for developing and commercializing improved steam engines that powered the Industrial Revolution.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 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_69d6ab44a77c8190a652f4b27164e4ef |
completed | April 8, 2026, 7:23 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d903b11ac481909866b611380792e7 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 2:05 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f48ad06350819094180403858db172 |
completed | May 1, 2026, 11:13 a.m. |
Created at: April 8, 2026, 9:46 p.m.