Triple

T16470036
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lancaster and Carlisle Railway E400035 entity
Predicate engineer P184 FINISHED
Object William Budden
William Budden was a 19th-century engineer known for his work on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway in England.
E1223735 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 Budden | Statement: [Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, engineer, William Budden]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Budden
Context triple: [Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, engineer, William Budden]
  • A. George Burrows
    George Burrows was a British Army officer best known for leading Anglo-Indian forces during the Second Anglo-Afghan War, particularly in the ill-fated 1880 Battle of Maiwand.
  • B. John Butterfield
    John Butterfield was a 19th-century American businessman and transportation pioneer best known as a co-founder of American Express and for developing early stagecoach and express services.
  • C. Henry Beadman Bryant
    Henry Beadman Bryant was a 19th-century American educator and co-founder of the Bryant & Stratton chain of business colleges, known for pioneering practical commercial education.
  • D. William Dowdeswell
    William Dowdeswell was an 18th-century British Whig politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer and was a leading figure in the Rockingham Whig faction.
  • E. Richard Bristow
    Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
  • 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 Budden
Triple: [Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, engineer, William Budden]
Generated description
William Budden was a 19th-century engineer known for his work on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway in England.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Budden
Target entity description: William Budden was a 19th-century engineer known for his work on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway in England.
  • A. George Burrows
    George Burrows was a British Army officer best known for leading Anglo-Indian forces during the Second Anglo-Afghan War, particularly in the ill-fated 1880 Battle of Maiwand.
  • B. John Butterfield
    John Butterfield was a 19th-century American businessman and transportation pioneer best known as a co-founder of American Express and for developing early stagecoach and express services.
  • C. Henry Beadman Bryant
    Henry Beadman Bryant was a 19th-century American educator and co-founder of the Bryant & Stratton chain of business colleges, known for pioneering practical commercial education.
  • D. William Dowdeswell
    William Dowdeswell was an 18th-century British Whig politician who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer and was a leading figure in the Rockingham Whig faction.
  • E. Richard Bristow
    Richard Bristow was a 16th-century English Catholic scholar and theologian who contributed to the development and annotation of the Douay–Rheims Bible.
  • 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_6a007d9e91f48190b83cefdd2b518082 completed May 10, 2026, 12:44 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a007e6507208190b3f32c05a2f647bd completed May 10, 2026, 12:47 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a007f2cefa081908734a907da33a72f completed May 10, 2026, 12:50 p.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:11 a.m.