Triple

T1769732
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Merton College, Oxford E38846 entity
Predicate foundedBy P104 FINISHED
Object Walter de Merton
Walter de Merton was a 13th-century English bishop and royal official best known for pioneering the collegiate system at Oxford University.
E199628 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: Walter de Merton | Statement: [Merton College, Oxford, foundedBy, Walter de Merton]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter de Merton
Context triple: [Merton College, Oxford, foundedBy, Walter de Merton]
  • A. John Fisher
    John Fisher was an English Catholic bishop and cardinal renowned for his staunch opposition to Henry VIII’s break with Rome, for which he was executed and later canonized as a martyr.
  • B. Edmund Gonville
    Edmund Gonville was a 14th-century English cleric and academic best known for establishing the college that later became Gonville and Caius College at the University of Cambridge.
  • C. Bishop William Van Mildert
    Bishop William Van Mildert was a 19th-century Anglican bishop and theologian, notable as the last Prince-Bishop of Durham and a key figure in the establishment of Durham University.
  • D. John Whitgift
    John Whitgift was a 16th-century English archbishop of Canterbury known for his staunch defense of the Elizabethan religious settlement and opposition to Puritanism.
  • E. Simon Langton
    Simon Langton is a British television director best known for his acclaimed work on period dramas and literary adaptations, including the 1995 BBC miniseries of "Pride and Prejudice."
  • 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: Walter de Merton
Triple: [Merton College, Oxford, foundedBy, Walter de Merton]
Generated description
Walter de Merton was a 13th-century English bishop and royal official best known for pioneering the collegiate system at Oxford University.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Walter de Merton
Target entity description: Walter de Merton was a 13th-century English bishop and royal official best known for pioneering the collegiate system at Oxford University.
  • A. John Fisher
    John Fisher was an English Catholic bishop and cardinal renowned for his staunch opposition to Henry VIII’s break with Rome, for which he was executed and later canonized as a martyr.
  • B. Edmund Gonville
    Edmund Gonville was a 14th-century English cleric and academic best known for establishing the college that later became Gonville and Caius College at the University of Cambridge.
  • C. Bishop William Van Mildert
    Bishop William Van Mildert was a 19th-century Anglican bishop and theologian, notable as the last Prince-Bishop of Durham and a key figure in the establishment of Durham University.
  • D. John Whitgift
    John Whitgift was a 16th-century English archbishop of Canterbury known for his staunch defense of the Elizabethan religious settlement and opposition to Puritanism.
  • E. Simon Langton
    Simon Langton is a British television director best known for his acclaimed work on period dramas and literary adaptations, including the 1995 BBC miniseries of "Pride and Prejudice."
  • 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_69a8862e61708190af97b9838cc3f5de completed March 4, 2026, 7:21 p.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69aa648eb9488190b1be2d2b6d259634 completed March 6, 2026, 5:22 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69ada9936f5881909b78bda48039916a completed March 8, 2026, 4:53 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69adae9845f081908904030f7a10df63 completed March 8, 2026, 5:15 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69adafa3494c8190b34a6930cf38ca40 completed March 8, 2026, 5:19 p.m.
Created at: March 4, 2026, 7:31 p.m.