Triple

T178254
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Lunar Society of Birmingham E3622 entity
Predicate hasMember P10 FINISHED
Object William Murdock
William Murdock was a Scottish engineer and inventor best known for pioneering the use of coal gas for lighting and for his work with James Watt and Matthew Boulton on steam engine development.
E26209 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 Murdock | Statement: [Lunar Society of Birmingham, hasMember, William Murdock]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Murdock
Context triple: [Lunar Society of Birmingham, hasMember, William Murdock]
  • A. Reginald McKenna
    Reginald McKenna was a British Liberal politician who held several senior government posts, including Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer, during the early 20th century.
  • B. Norman Lamont
    Norman Lamont is a British Conservative politician best known for serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer under Prime Minister John Major in the early 1990s.
  • C. John Lyon
    John Lyon was a 16th-century English landowner and philanthropist best known for endowing and founding Harrow School, one of England’s leading public schools.
  • D. David Steel
    David Steel is a British politician best known for leading the Liberal Party in the late 1970s and 1980s and later serving as the first Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament.
  • E. Sir John Anderson
    Sir John Anderson was a British civil servant and politician who played a central administrative and security role in Winston Churchill’s World War II government.
  • 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 Murdock
Triple: [Lunar Society of Birmingham, hasMember, William Murdock]
Generated description
William Murdock was a Scottish engineer and inventor best known for pioneering the use of coal gas for lighting and for his work with James Watt and Matthew Boulton on steam engine development.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: William Murdock
Target entity description: William Murdock was a Scottish engineer and inventor best known for pioneering the use of coal gas for lighting and for his work with James Watt and Matthew Boulton on steam engine development.
  • A. Reginald McKenna
    Reginald McKenna was a British Liberal politician who held several senior government posts, including Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer, during the early 20th century.
  • B. Norman Lamont
    Norman Lamont is a British Conservative politician best known for serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer under Prime Minister John Major in the early 1990s.
  • C. John Lyon
    John Lyon was a 16th-century English landowner and philanthropist best known for endowing and founding Harrow School, one of England’s leading public schools.
  • D. David Steel
    David Steel is a British politician best known for leading the Liberal Party in the late 1970s and 1980s and later serving as the first Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament.
  • E. Sir John Anderson
    Sir John Anderson was a British civil servant and politician who played a central administrative and security role in Winston Churchill’s World War II government.
  • 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_69a32bc3efbc8190831cb527c122ac59 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 5:54 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a32d0fbc048190b01b3c2861c78ea3 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 5:59 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a32d5b05588190a67be5d0df28763f completed Feb. 28, 2026, 6 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:39 a.m.