Triple

T178242
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lunar Society of Birmingham E3622 entity
Predicate hasMember P10 FINISHED
Object William Withering
William Withering was an 18th-century English physician and botanist best known for introducing the medical use of digitalis (foxglove) to treat heart disease.
E22809 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 Withering | Statement: [Lunar Society of Birmingham, hasMember, William Withering]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Withering
Context triple: [Lunar Society of Birmingham, hasMember, William Withering]
  • A. Francis Nurse
    Francis Nurse was a respected landowner and community leader in 17th-century Salem Village, best known for his involvement in the events surrounding the Salem witch trials.
  • B. Erasmus Darwin
    Erasmus Darwin was an 18th-century English physician, natural philosopher, and poet who proposed early ideas about biological evolution and influenced later evolutionary thought.
  • C. David Douglas
    David Douglas was a 19th-century Scottish botanist and plant collector renowned for introducing numerous North American tree species, including the Douglas fir, to Europe.
  • D. Robert Brown
    Robert Brown was a Scottish botanist best known for his pioneering observations of the random motion of particles suspended in fluid, which led to the concept of Brownian motion.
  • E. William Smith
    William Smith was an 18th-century American minister and the father of Abigail Adams, who became the second First Lady of the United States.
  • 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 Withering
Triple: [Lunar Society of Birmingham, hasMember, William Withering]
Generated description
William Withering was an 18th-century English physician and botanist best known for introducing the medical use of digitalis (foxglove) to treat heart disease.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Withering
Target entity description: William Withering was an 18th-century English physician and botanist best known for introducing the medical use of digitalis (foxglove) to treat heart disease.
  • A. Francis Nurse
    Francis Nurse was a respected landowner and community leader in 17th-century Salem Village, best known for his involvement in the events surrounding the Salem witch trials.
  • B. Erasmus Darwin
    Erasmus Darwin was an 18th-century English physician, natural philosopher, and poet who proposed early ideas about biological evolution and influenced later evolutionary thought.
  • C. David Douglas
    David Douglas was a 19th-century Scottish botanist and plant collector renowned for introducing numerous North American tree species, including the Douglas fir, to Europe.
  • D. Robert Brown
    Robert Brown was a Scottish botanist best known for his pioneering observations of the random motion of particles suspended in fluid, which led to the concept of Brownian motion.
  • E. William Smith
    William Smith was an 18th-century American minister and the father of Abigail Adams, who became the second First Lady of the United States.
  • 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_69a25374990081909766d30c79a18e0e completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:31 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69a258fe7bb08190a56f4a54cadd2fef completed Feb. 28, 2026, 2:54 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_69a2f0b4f1708190b766e1d9b43038ed completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:42 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a2f12e5f548190a0fb3ca1cb059be1 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:44 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2f39599b08190be95c9ec634c5745 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:54 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:39 a.m.