Triple

T13936641
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sir Robert Cotton E335136 entity
Predicate child P120 FINISHED
Object Sir Thomas Cotton
Sir Thomas Cotton was a 17th-century English antiquary and politician who inherited and helped preserve the renowned Cotton library of manuscripts assembled by his father, Sir Robert Cotton.
E1069553 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: Sir Thomas Cotton | Statement: [Sir Robert Cotton, child, Sir Thomas Cotton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Thomas Cotton
Context triple: [Sir Robert Cotton, child, Sir Thomas Cotton]
  • A. William ap Thomas
    William ap Thomas was a 15th-century Welsh nobleman and soldier, known as the "Blue Knight of Gwent," who rose to prominence in the service of the English crown and established the family that later became the earls of Pembroke.
  • B. Sir Thomas Dale
    Sir Thomas Dale was an English naval commander and deputy governor of the Virginia Colony known for his strict military rule and key role in consolidating the early Jamestown settlement.
  • C. Edmund Ball
    Edmund Ball was an American industrialist and member of the Ball family who helped build Ball Corporation into a major manufacturer of glass jars and packaging products.
  • D. Sir Thomas Gates
    Sir Thomas Gates was an early 17th-century English colonial governor and military leader who played a key role in the survival and governance of the Jamestown settlement in Virginia.
  • E. Raleigh St. Clair
    Raleigh St. Clair is a mild-mannered neurologist and academic in "The Royal Tenenbaums," known for his reserved demeanor and troubled marriage to Margot Tenenbaum.
  • 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: Sir Thomas Cotton
Triple: [Sir Robert Cotton, child, Sir Thomas Cotton]
Generated description
Sir Thomas Cotton was a 17th-century English antiquary and politician who inherited and helped preserve the renowned Cotton library of manuscripts assembled by his father, Sir Robert Cotton.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Thomas Cotton
Target entity description: Sir Thomas Cotton was a 17th-century English antiquary and politician who inherited and helped preserve the renowned Cotton library of manuscripts assembled by his father, Sir Robert Cotton.
  • A. William ap Thomas
    William ap Thomas was a 15th-century Welsh nobleman and soldier, known as the "Blue Knight of Gwent," who rose to prominence in the service of the English crown and established the family that later became the earls of Pembroke.
  • B. Sir Thomas Dale
    Sir Thomas Dale was an English naval commander and deputy governor of the Virginia Colony known for his strict military rule and key role in consolidating the early Jamestown settlement.
  • C. Edmund Ball
    Edmund Ball was an American industrialist and member of the Ball family who helped build Ball Corporation into a major manufacturer of glass jars and packaging products.
  • D. Sir Thomas Gates
    Sir Thomas Gates was an early 17th-century English colonial governor and military leader who played a key role in the survival and governance of the Jamestown settlement in Virginia.
  • E. Raleigh St. Clair
    Raleigh St. Clair is a mild-mannered neurologist and academic in "The Royal Tenenbaums," known for his reserved demeanor and troubled marriage to Margot Tenenbaum.
  • 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_69d81c5f739081908bc05b2461f54828 completed April 9, 2026, 9:38 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69de2cf42878819085146670d7b92605 completed April 14, 2026, 12:03 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69f7ce880a98819086ae25d3408bc723 completed May 3, 2026, 10:39 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69f7cf24c9d88190b6e93859cb3659ef completed May 3, 2026, 10:41 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69f7cfa34a448190affb5b86efc37cf4 completed May 3, 2026, 10:43 p.m.
Created at: April 9, 2026, 10:17 p.m.