Triple

T1531601
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code E32454 entity
Predicate contributor P1993 FINISHED
Object William Opdyke
William Opdyke is a computer scientist best known for pioneering the concept of code refactoring, including one of the earliest doctoral theses on the subject and contributions to the foundational work "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code."
E238405 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: William Opdyke | Statement: [Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, contributor, William Opdyke]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Opdyke
Context triple: [Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, contributor, William Opdyke]
  • 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. Thomas McElwee
    Thomas McElwee was an Irish republican and Provisional IRA member from County Derry who died during the 1981 Maze Prison hunger strike.
  • C. Robert McKean
    Robert McKean was a son of American statesman and signer of the Declaration of Independence Thomas McKean.
  • D. Edward Doty
    Edward Doty was an English indentured servant who became a notable early settler of Plymouth Colony and a signer of the Mayflower Compact in 1620.
  • E. Charles Sporck
    Charles Sporck is an American engineer and executive best known for leading National Semiconductor to become a major force in the global semiconductor industry after an early career at Fairchild Semiconductor.
  • 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: William Opdyke
Triple: [Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, contributor, William Opdyke]
Generated description
William Opdyke is a computer scientist best known for pioneering the concept of code refactoring, including one of the earliest doctoral theses on the subject and contributions to the foundational work "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code."
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Opdyke
Target entity description: William Opdyke is a computer scientist best known for pioneering the concept of code refactoring, including one of the earliest doctoral theses on the subject and contributions to the foundational work "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code."
  • 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. Thomas McElwee
    Thomas McElwee was an Irish republican and Provisional IRA member from County Derry who died during the 1981 Maze Prison hunger strike.
  • C. Robert McKean
    Robert McKean was a son of American statesman and signer of the Declaration of Independence Thomas McKean.
  • D. Edward Doty
    Edward Doty was an English indentured servant who became a notable early settler of Plymouth Colony and a signer of the Mayflower Compact in 1620.
  • E. Charles Sporck
    Charles Sporck is an American engineer and executive best known for leading National Semiconductor to become a major force in the global semiconductor industry after an early career at Fairchild Semiconductor.
  • 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_69a885ea86308190998f6bc14bb91f8e completed March 4, 2026, 7:20 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a90816b5e88190aa92a8558e35744b completed March 5, 2026, 4:35 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ae58a7b1fc8190b76b09e64097b881 completed March 9, 2026, 5:20 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69ae597198b88190b0253aa121ed35e1 completed March 9, 2026, 5:24 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69ae59ff1234819083bbfdce270cb584 completed March 9, 2026, 5:26 a.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:26 p.m.