Triple

T18885941
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Crosby E461955 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object William Crosby (physicist) — NE NERFINISHED

How this triple was built (3 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 Crosby (physicist) | Statement: [Crosby, hasNotableBearer, William Crosby (physicist)]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Crosby (physicist)
Context triple: [Crosby, hasNotableBearer, William Crosby (physicist)]
  • A. John Randall
    John Randall was a British physicist and biophysicist known for his leadership in molecular biology research at King's College London, where crucial work on the structure of DNA was carried out.
  • B. John Randall
    John Randall is a member of the Randall family, known primarily in relation to Rebecca Randall.
  • C. Harold Spencer Jones
    Harold Spencer Jones was a prominent 20th-century British astronomer who served as the last Astronomer Royal to be responsible for the Royal Greenwich Observatory and made significant contributions to positional astronomy and the determination of the astronomical unit.
  • D. John Ernest Randall
    John Ernest Randall was a physicist and academic known for his contributions to nuclear physics and for being a prominent student of Ernest Marsden.
  • E. Freeman A. Davies
    Freeman A. Davies is a film editor best known for his work on the action-comedy movie "48 Hrs."
  • F. None of above. chosen
  • G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07 
Target entity: William Crosby (physicist)
Target entity description: William Crosby was a physicist known for his contributions to mid-20th-century American scientific research and academia.
  • A. John Randall
    John Randall was a British physicist and biophysicist known for his leadership in molecular biology research at King's College London, where crucial work on the structure of DNA was carried out.
  • B. John Randall
    John Randall is a member of the Randall family, known primarily in relation to Rebecca Randall.
  • C. Harold Spencer Jones
    Harold Spencer Jones was a prominent 20th-century British astronomer who served as the last Astronomer Royal to be responsible for the Royal Greenwich Observatory and made significant contributions to positional astronomy and the determination of the astronomical unit.
  • D. John Ernest Randall
    John Ernest Randall was a physicist and academic known for his contributions to nuclear physics and for being a prominent student of Ernest Marsden.
  • E. Freeman A. Davies
    Freeman A. Davies is a film editor best known for his work on the action-comedy movie "48 Hrs."
  • F. None of above. chosen

Provenance (2 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_69d8dcfc3430819095ee6fc0eb4c06a5 completed April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5c4760d808190b502c4ed1f24424c completed April 20, 2026, 6:15 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 11:57 a.m.