Triple

T19005562
Position Surface form Disambiguated ID Type / Status
Subject Short E465069 entity
Predicate hasNotableBearer P458 FINISHED
Object James Short
James Short was an 18th-century Scottish mathematician and optician renowned for designing and constructing high-precision reflecting telescopes.
E1353862 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: James Short | Statement: [Short, hasNotableBearer, James Short]
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Short
Context triple: [Short, hasNotableBearer, James Short]
  • A. Thomas Mudge
    Thomas Mudge was an 18th-century English horologist renowned for inventing the lever escapement, a key advancement in precision timekeeping.
  • B. Edward Henry Machin
    Edward Henry Machin is the ambitious, self-made businessman protagonist of Arnold Bennett’s novel "The Card," known for his resourcefulness and social climbing in the fictional town of Bursley.
  • C. Henry John Boulton
    Henry John Boulton was a prominent 19th-century Canadian lawyer, judge, and political figure who served as Attorney General and played a key role in the colonial administration of Upper Canada.
  • D. Larcum Kendall
    Larcum Kendall was an 18th-century English watchmaker renowned for crafting highly accurate marine chronometers that advanced long-distance sea navigation.
  • E. Daniel Horsmanden
    Daniel Horsmanden was an 18th-century New York judge and diarist best known for orchestrating and documenting the controversial trials during the 1741 slave conspiracy panic.
  • 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: James Short
Triple: [Short, hasNotableBearer, James Short]
Generated description
James Short was an 18th-century Scottish mathematician and optician renowned for designing and constructing high-precision reflecting telescopes.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: James Short
Target entity description: James Short was an 18th-century Scottish mathematician and optician renowned for designing and constructing high-precision reflecting telescopes.
  • A. Thomas Mudge
    Thomas Mudge was an 18th-century English horologist renowned for inventing the lever escapement, a key advancement in precision timekeeping.
  • B. Edward Henry Machin
    Edward Henry Machin is the ambitious, self-made businessman protagonist of Arnold Bennett’s novel "The Card," known for his resourcefulness and social climbing in the fictional town of Bursley.
  • C. Henry John Boulton
    Henry John Boulton was a prominent 19th-century Canadian lawyer, judge, and political figure who served as Attorney General and played a key role in the colonial administration of Upper Canada.
  • D. Larcum Kendall
    Larcum Kendall was an 18th-century English watchmaker renowned for crafting highly accurate marine chronometers that advanced long-distance sea navigation.
  • E. Daniel Horsmanden
    Daniel Horsmanden was an 18th-century New York judge and diarist best known for orchestrating and documenting the controversial trials during the 1741 slave conspiracy panic.
  • 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_69d8dd01a56c81909694a128c66b21d7 completed April 10, 2026, 11:20 a.m.
NER Named-entity recognition batch_69e5d6a494688190a277b2cddf300235 completed April 20, 2026, 7:32 a.m.
NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) batch_6a05b45fe5d481908a50081362a5673c completed May 14, 2026, 11:39 a.m.
NEDg Description generation batch_6a05b5dfac0c8190b67921280d5ab1fe completed May 14, 2026, 11:45 a.m.
NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) batch_6a05b68aba3081908ca21d732e45f454 completed May 14, 2026, 11:48 a.m.
Created at: April 10, 2026, 12:01 p.m.