Triple
T13511998
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Dumfries Academy |
E322662
|
entity |
| Predicate | hasNotableAlumnus |
P51
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William Armstrong (engineer) |
E4487
|
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: William Armstrong (engineer) | Statement: [Dumfries Academy, hasNotableAlumnus, William Armstrong (engineer)]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Armstrong (engineer) Context triple: [Dumfries Academy, hasNotableAlumnus, William Armstrong (engineer)]
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A.
William Armstrong
chosen
William Armstrong is a common name shared by several notable individuals, including engineers, politicians, and athletes, whose specific identity depends on the context in which the name appears.
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B.
Henry Bell
Henry Bell was a Scottish engineer and pioneer of steamship navigation, best known for operating one of Europe's first successful passenger steamboats in the early 19th century.
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C.
Henry Bell
Henry Bell was a 17th-century English architect and mayor of King's Lynn, noted for designing prominent Baroque-style civic and commercial buildings.
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D.
William Arrol
William Arrol was a prominent Scottish civil engineer and bridge builder renowned for leading the construction of major late-19th-century steel structures, including iconic railway bridges in the United Kingdom.
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E.
Joseph Whitworth
Joseph Whitworth was a 19th-century English engineer, inventor, and industrialist renowned for pioneering standardized screw threads and advancing precision engineering.
- 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_69d80766a21881909f21a1b7421d3b8a |
completed | April 9, 2026, 8:09 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69dbaf86a6208190be8c18f7a0158f23 |
completed | April 12, 2026, 2:43 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f75492676c81909602745e2b6436cb |
completed | May 3, 2026, 1:58 p.m. |
Created at: April 9, 2026, 9:43 p.m.