Triple

T178436
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Dictionary of National Biography E3627 entity
Predicate editor P1954 FINISHED
Object Sir Sidney Lee
Sir Sidney Lee was a British biographer and literary scholar best known for his extensive work on Shakespeare and for helping shape authoritative reference works on notable figures.
E22503 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: Sir Sidney Lee | Statement: [Dictionary of National Biography, editor, Sir Sidney Lee]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Sidney Lee
Context triple: [Dictionary of National Biography, editor, Sir Sidney Lee]
  • A. Claude Auchinleck
    Claude Auchinleck was a senior British Army officer and field marshal best known for his leadership of Allied forces in the Middle East during the early stages of World War II.
  • B. Sir Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt
    Sir Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt was a senior Royal Air Force officer who held high command positions between the World Wars and during the early years of the Second World War.
  • C. John Murray
    John Murray was a prominent 19th-century British publishing house known for issuing influential scientific and literary works, including Charles Darwin’s writings.
  • D. David C. Acheson
    David C. Acheson is an American lawyer and former government official who served on the Rogers Commission investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
  • E. Arthur Geoffrey Walker
    Arthur Geoffrey Walker was a British mathematician and physicist best known for his foundational contributions to relativistic cosmology, particularly the development of the Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker (FLRW) metric.
  • 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: Sir Sidney Lee
Triple: [Dictionary of National Biography, editor, Sir Sidney Lee]
Generated description
Sir Sidney Lee was a British biographer and literary scholar best known for his extensive work on Shakespeare and for helping shape authoritative reference works on notable figures.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sir Sidney Lee
Target entity description: Sir Sidney Lee was a British biographer and literary scholar best known for his extensive work on Shakespeare and for helping shape authoritative reference works on notable figures.
  • A. Claude Auchinleck
    Claude Auchinleck was a senior British Army officer and field marshal best known for his leadership of Allied forces in the Middle East during the early stages of World War II.
  • B. Sir Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt
    Sir Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt was a senior Royal Air Force officer who held high command positions between the World Wars and during the early years of the Second World War.
  • C. John Murray
    John Murray was a prominent 19th-century British publishing house known for issuing influential scientific and literary works, including Charles Darwin’s writings.
  • D. David C. Acheson
    David C. Acheson is an American lawyer and former government official who served on the Rogers Commission investigating the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
  • E. Arthur Geoffrey Walker
    Arthur Geoffrey Walker was a British mathematician and physicist best known for his foundational contributions to relativistic cosmology, particularly the development of the Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker (FLRW) metric.
  • 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_69a2ee8a9e488190958091fb3bcf2d01 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:32 p.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_69a2ef062c6c8190b50d1c1102161259 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:35 p.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_69a2ef8234bc81909449654ee2f4c000 completed Feb. 28, 2026, 1:37 p.m.
Created at: Feb. 28, 2026, 2:39 a.m.