Triple
T1370504
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Armstrong Whitworth |
E30102
|
entity |
| Predicate | foundedBy |
P104
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William George Armstrong |
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 George Armstrong | Statement: [Armstrong Whitworth, foundedBy, William George Armstrong]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William George Armstrong Context triple: [Armstrong Whitworth, foundedBy, William George Armstrong]
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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 Stephenson
Henry Stephenson was a British character actor known for his dignified, often aristocratic roles in Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
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C.
Sir John Fowler
Sir John Fowler was a prominent 19th-century British civil engineer best known for his major railway works and co-designing the Forth Bridge in Scotland.
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D.
George Ivatt
George Ivatt was a British railway engineer best known for designing some of the last steam and early diesel locomotives for the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and its nationalised successor, British Railways.
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E.
Robert Stephenson
Robert Stephenson was a pioneering 19th-century English railway and civil engineer renowned for his work on early steam locomotives and major railway bridges.
- 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_69a498f912008190a376a98b207b2071 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 7:52 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69a4c2d7b6008190bc0303b56959ba56 |
completed | March 1, 2026, 10:51 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69acd47f25c48190a27f87909c15d7c3 |
completed | March 8, 2026, 1:44 a.m. |
Created at: March 1, 2026, 7:57 p.m.