Triple

T1208424
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject King George Island E25942 entity
Predicate discoveredBy P412 FINISHED
Object William Smith (British mariner)
William Smith was a British mariner and explorer best known for his early 19th-century voyages that led to the first recorded discovery of land in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica.
E138195 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 Smith (British mariner) | Statement: [King George Island, discoveredBy, William Smith (British mariner)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Smith (British mariner)
Context triple: [King George Island, discoveredBy, William Smith (British mariner)]
  • A. John Roebuck
    John Roebuck was an 18th-century English physician, chemist, and industrialist known for pioneering improvements in the lead-chamber process for producing sulfuric acid and for his early partnership with James Watt.
  • B. William Smith of Aberdeen
    William Smith of Aberdeen was a 19th-century Scottish architect noted for his significant contributions to Victorian architecture, including work on royal and public buildings.
  • C. James Cook
    James Cook was an 18th-century British naval captain and explorer renowned for his three Pacific voyages that mapped previously uncharted regions including Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaii.
  • D. John Franklin
    John Franklin was a 19th-century British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer best known for his ill-fated expedition to chart the Northwest Passage.
  • E. George Vancouver
    George Vancouver was an 18th-century British Royal Navy officer and explorer best known for his detailed surveys of the Pacific Northwest coast of North America.
  • 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 Smith (British mariner)
Triple: [King George Island, discoveredBy, William Smith (British mariner)]
Generated description
William Smith was a British mariner and explorer best known for his early 19th-century voyages that led to the first recorded discovery of land in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Smith (British mariner)
Target entity description: William Smith was a British mariner and explorer best known for his early 19th-century voyages that led to the first recorded discovery of land in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica.
  • A. John Roebuck
    John Roebuck was an 18th-century English physician, chemist, and industrialist known for pioneering improvements in the lead-chamber process for producing sulfuric acid and for his early partnership with James Watt.
  • B. William Smith of Aberdeen
    William Smith of Aberdeen was a 19th-century Scottish architect noted for his significant contributions to Victorian architecture, including work on royal and public buildings.
  • C. James Cook
    James Cook was an 18th-century British naval captain and explorer renowned for his three Pacific voyages that mapped previously uncharted regions including Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaii.
  • D. John Franklin
    John Franklin was a 19th-century British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer best known for his ill-fated expedition to chart the Northwest Passage.
  • E. George Vancouver
    George Vancouver was an 18th-century British Royal Navy officer and explorer best known for his detailed surveys of the Pacific Northwest coast of North America.
  • 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_69a4942b30f08190a91c60573e16b5ef completed March 1, 2026, 7:31 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4bde18d208190848c189b2b8d585f completed March 1, 2026, 10:29 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ac7f419b8c8190ac7642b9b4108df8 completed March 7, 2026, 7:40 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ac7fce1b788190a133ea6f92c62842 completed March 7, 2026, 7:43 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ac8074334081909ad7a045fc23ea71 completed March 7, 2026, 7:45 p.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:46 p.m.