Triple

T17292300
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Sir Cyril Hurcomb E419814 entity
Predicate name P16 FINISHED
Object Cyril Hurcomb
Cyril Hurcomb was a British civil servant best known for serving as the first chairman of the British Transport Commission, overseeing the nationalized transport system after World War II.
E1271404 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: Cyril Hurcomb | Statement: [Sir Cyril Hurcomb, name, Cyril Hurcomb]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cyril Hurcomb
Context triple: [Sir Cyril Hurcomb, name, Cyril Hurcomb]
  • A. Edwin Broun
    Edwin Broun Fred was an American bacteriologist and academic who served as president of the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the mid-20th century.
  • B. Clement Griscom
    Clement Griscom was an American shipping magnate and executive who played a leading role in the development and consolidation of major transatlantic steamship lines in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. Jack Hulbert
    Jack Hulbert was a popular English comic actor, singer, and filmmaker best known for his work in British musical comedies of the 1930s.
  • D. Eugene Tennant
    Eugene Tennant is the father of British actress Victoria Tennant.
  • E. George Milburn
    George Milburn was an English footballer known for playing as a defender for Leeds United in the 1930s and as a member of the notable Milburn footballing family.
  • 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: Cyril Hurcomb
Triple: [Sir Cyril Hurcomb, name, Cyril Hurcomb]
Generated description
Cyril Hurcomb was a British civil servant best known for serving as the first chairman of the British Transport Commission, overseeing the nationalized transport system after World War II.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cyril Hurcomb
Target entity description: Cyril Hurcomb was a British civil servant best known for serving as the first chairman of the British Transport Commission, overseeing the nationalized transport system after World War II.
  • A. Edwin Broun
    Edwin Broun Fred was an American bacteriologist and academic who served as president of the University of Wisconsin–Madison in the mid-20th century.
  • B. Clement Griscom
    Clement Griscom was an American shipping magnate and executive who played a leading role in the development and consolidation of major transatlantic steamship lines in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
  • C. Jack Hulbert
    Jack Hulbert was a popular English comic actor, singer, and filmmaker best known for his work in British musical comedies of the 1930s.
  • D. Eugene Tennant
    Eugene Tennant is the father of British actress Victoria Tennant.
  • E. George Milburn
    George Milburn was an English footballer known for playing as a defender for Leeds United in the 1930s and as a member of the notable Milburn footballing family.
  • 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_69d886db32608190a61e18862c5a8af6 completed April 10, 2026, 5:12 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e4378438508190924f732ad748b4d0 completed April 19, 2026, 2:01 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a01c1e9985c8190861ddd9eced1414b completed May 11, 2026, 11:47 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a01c2e2f3988190af955c99d5dd7c90 completed May 11, 2026, 11:52 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a01c330dbe88190ab9a594523653a10 completed May 11, 2026, 11:53 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 5:40 a.m.