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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.