Triple

T16470035
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lancaster and Carlisle Railway E400035 entity
Predicate engineer P184 FINISHED
Object Joseph Locke
Joseph Locke was a prominent 19th-century British civil engineer known for designing and constructing major railway lines during the early development of the railway system in the United Kingdom.
E1215465 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: Joseph Locke | Statement: [Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, engineer, Joseph Locke]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joseph Locke
Context triple: [Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, engineer, Joseph Locke]
  • A. Lyndon Sims
    Lyndon Sims is an individual notable primarily for bearing the given name "Lyndon."
  • B. Charles Smith
    Charles Smith is an architect known for designing the HMAS Sydney II Memorial in Australia.
  • C. Charles Smith
    Charles Smith is an American playwright known for his works exploring African American history and identity, and for his long association with the Playwrights Workshop at the University of Iowa.
  • D. John Louis
    John Louis was a 17th-century German count from the House of Nassau who ruled the small principality of Nassau-Hadamar within the Holy Roman Empire.
  • E. Joseph Crawford
    Joseph Crawford is the birth name of American actor Clayne Crawford, known for his roles in the TV series "Lethal Weapon" and films such as "A Walk to Remember."
  • 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: Joseph Locke
Triple: [Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, engineer, Joseph Locke]
Generated description
Joseph Locke was a prominent 19th-century British civil engineer known for designing and constructing major railway lines during the early development of the railway system in the United Kingdom.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Joseph Locke
Target entity description: Joseph Locke was a prominent 19th-century British civil engineer known for designing and constructing major railway lines during the early development of the railway system in the United Kingdom.
  • A. Lyndon Sims
    Lyndon Sims is an individual notable primarily for bearing the given name "Lyndon."
  • B. Charles Smith
    Charles Smith is an architect known for designing the HMAS Sydney II Memorial in Australia.
  • C. Charles Smith
    Charles Smith is an American playwright known for his works exploring African American history and identity, and for his long association with the Playwrights Workshop at the University of Iowa.
  • D. John Louis
    John Louis was a 17th-century German count from the House of Nassau who ruled the small principality of Nassau-Hadamar within the Holy Roman Empire.
  • E. Joseph Crawford
    Joseph Crawford is the birth name of American actor Clayne Crawford, known for his roles in the TV series "Lethal Weapon" and films such as "A Walk to Remember."
  • 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_69d87f2dac988190b74d6e185fa88ba4 completed April 10, 2026, 4:40 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e32dcfed6c8190b8dbe4b65b0ab817 completed April 18, 2026, 7:08 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a004f5af4308190bd023624de35027f completed May 10, 2026, 9:26 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a0050c5d4548190a674c1c19f08a9fd completed May 10, 2026, 9:32 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a0051a7ae208190b33d42cc8d4bb21f completed May 10, 2026, 9:36 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:11 a.m.