Triple
T13817141
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | thallium |
E332046
|
entity |
| Predicate | discoveredBy |
P412
|
FINISHED |
| Object | William Crookes |
E767788
|
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 Crookes | Statement: [thallium, discoveredBy, William Crookes]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Crookes Context triple: [thallium, discoveredBy, William Crookes]
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A.
William Crookes
chosen
William Crookes was a prominent 19th-century British chemist and physicist, known for discovering the element thallium and for his influential but controversial investigations into spiritualist phenomena.
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B.
J. J. Thomson
J. J. Thomson was a British physicist best known for discovering the electron and proposing the "plum pudding" model of the atom.
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C.
Norman Lockyer
Norman Lockyer was a British astronomer and science communicator best known for co-discovering the element helium in the solar spectrum and for founding the journal Nature.
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D.
Julius Plücker
Julius Plücker was a 19th-century German mathematician and physicist known for his pioneering work in analytic and projective geometry as well as early contributions to spectroscopy.
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E.
John Joly
John Joly was an Irish physicist and geologist known for his work on radioactivity, geochronology, and the development of radiotherapy techniques.
- 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_69d81c59f8808190a851bc56afdc55e9 |
completed | April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69de0281bb988190803ee195f430b9c8 |
completed | April 14, 2026, 9:01 a.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69f7b8e1fbec8190bab64357f8c5438f |
completed | May 3, 2026, 9:06 p.m. |
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:12 p.m.