Triple

T1496590
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject St Catharine’s College, Cambridge E29700 entity
Predicate founder P104 FINISHED
Object Robert Woodlark
Robert Woodlark was a 15th-century English priest and academic who served as Provost of King’s College, Cambridge, and is best known for establishing St Catharine’s College at the University of Cambridge.
E228644 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: Robert Woodlark | Statement: [St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, founder, Robert Woodlark]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Woodlark
Context triple: [St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, founder, Robert Woodlark]
  • A. Philip Woodruff
    Philip Woodruff was the pen name of British civil servant Philip Mason, best known for his influential writings on the British Raj and the Indian Civil Service.
  • B. William Wellington Cairns
    William Wellington Cairns was a 19th-century British colonial administrator who served as Governor of Queensland, after whom the Australian city of Cairns is named.
  • C. Walter Hamilton
    Walter Hamilton is a relatively obscure individual whose primary distinction is sharing the surname associated with the more widely known Hamilton family name.
  • D. William Eldred Jackson
    William Eldred Jackson was the son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice and Nuremberg prosecutor Robert H. Jackson.
  • E. John William Nicholson
    John William Nicholson was a British physicist known for his early work on atomic theory and spectroscopy in the early 20th century.
  • 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: Robert Woodlark
Triple: [St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, founder, Robert Woodlark]
Generated description
Robert Woodlark was a 15th-century English priest and academic who served as Provost of King’s College, Cambridge, and is best known for establishing St Catharine’s College at the University of Cambridge.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Robert Woodlark
Target entity description: Robert Woodlark was a 15th-century English priest and academic who served as Provost of King’s College, Cambridge, and is best known for establishing St Catharine’s College at the University of Cambridge.
  • A. Philip Woodruff
    Philip Woodruff was the pen name of British civil servant Philip Mason, best known for his influential writings on the British Raj and the Indian Civil Service.
  • B. William Wellington Cairns
    William Wellington Cairns was a 19th-century British colonial administrator who served as Governor of Queensland, after whom the Australian city of Cairns is named.
  • C. Walter Hamilton
    Walter Hamilton is a relatively obscure individual whose primary distinction is sharing the surname associated with the more widely known Hamilton family name.
  • D. William Eldred Jackson
    William Eldred Jackson was the son of U.S. Supreme Court Justice and Nuremberg prosecutor Robert H. Jackson.
  • E. John William Nicholson
    John William Nicholson was a British physicist known for his early work on atomic theory and spectroscopy in the early 20th century.
  • 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_69a498dba1d8819093b46a3a8d2485f1 completed March 1, 2026, 7:51 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a4c6edca248190a90205799b270058 completed March 1, 2026, 11:08 p.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae1fb455888190a1408a25b93a70ce completed March 9, 2026, 1:17 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae20cb479c8190853d0d954af16887 completed March 9, 2026, 1:22 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae21614e74819093617a355f0857c8 completed March 9, 2026, 1:24 a.m.
Created at: March 1, 2026, 8:12 p.m.